Shelter Struggles
On a normal night you can find about 75 to 80 people staying at the Grace Episcopal Drop In Shelter in Madison.
But as the temperature dips the number of people turning to them for a hot meal and a bed has doubled.
"At the current time I am homeless and this helps me out considerably."
For now 45-year-old Brent Mack calls this shelter about a block away from the Capitol home.
Without it, he doesn't think he'd be able to survive.
"I mean it's very, very cold out there and that's all there is to it and it's supposed to get colder."
The other 140-people that are expected to stay there probably wouldn't survive either.
"The weather is supposed to get pretty bad and you can go out there for 30-minutes and freeze."
James Willis manages the shelter.
Recently he says he's seen a lot of new faces come through the door.
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