Atlanta has opened a total of 3 warming shelters. We have countless churches in this state. I’m curious as to how many of them have opened their gymnasiums or community centers or chapels to allow the homeless a warm place to sleep for the night and how many are giving their annual Christmas show priority.

Tis’ the season.

My area has some warming centers, and they're announcing them regularly on social media and the local news, but not everyone's able to get one.

I work in an ER, though I've been off since yesterday and don't go back until Monday. I've heard from friends/co-workers working yesterday and today, though, that we've had several homeless people come in with frostbite or freezing injuries - such as an arm or leg froze to a surface, like the ground, and the skin and tissue was damaged when the person moved.

And mind, we haven't gotten hit as badly in my area of MI as many other areas. Having been homeless, my heart breaks for them.

There's a guy I see every so often when I go to my aunt's to run errands for her, and I managed to get him to accept a winter coat and some gloves I got him. I wanted to get him some good boots, but he actually had some really decent ones he said he got from a charity a few weeks ago. There's a shelter I called that would take him, but he didn't want to go. (Unfortunately you can't force help on everyone; again, I've been in that place years ago.) I really, really hope he's okay.