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Temperatures plunged Saturday, Jan. 13, and snow fell heavy Sunday night. Nashville got above freezing just once over the following week — a sunny Thursday afternoon — before plunging back to single digits over the weekend. Prolonged cold and ice tested the city’s shelter network, a broad coalition of institutions and people trying to help the growing population of people living outside.
Nashville Rescue Mission, Room and the Inn, and Metro's Cold Weather Overflow Shelter are the three places that people can go to find shelter from the elements.
With the help of Metro Social Services, Room In the Inn and Nashville Rescue Mission shelters for the unhoused have had ample space and turned no one away during the colder temperatures.
It's about to get warmer than Nashville hot chicken as temperatures could reach dangerous levels with heat indexes forecast up to 113 degrees.
Councilmember Courtney Johnston has been coordinating efforts to rehouse people living in the South Nashville park