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Being impacted by this bitter cold, while you're home tonight, staying warm for other folks without a permanent roof over their head. This is Home. Brown and white pit bull stands guard at the entrance to a homeless encampment on the west bank of the White River, just off downtown.
"It's rough. It's really rough. I mean, we live in a tent. It's snowing, as you can see. It's very cold out here, especially today."
"It's like an easy roll in a neighborhood, just the other side of Kentucky Avenue. It's cold too, but a roof and central heating ward off the subzero temperatures. There's no such roofs or central heating for the dozen or so people who live just south of the I-70 overpass."
"We've got heat so, and we've got the propane tanks. And we get money sent to us from, so we're able to contain that will last us for days. So we'll have at least four."
Michael Burke says he and his wife won't go into a shelter tonight because they don't want to be split up. Tennessee and Anthony Vorhees are together tonight, but their kids are with them at the moment. They're staying at the Graham also, where they're going to be until it gets fixed because it's too cold air for them.
The temperature inside the Vorhees' rental home has dipped into the lower 60's since their furnace went out with a gas leak Wednesday, leaving space heaters to warm up a couple rooms and a microwave to warm up their food.
"We've got three space heaters to in the living. There were sand and then we have one of the bathroom, so we go the bathroom in the pipes don't freeze. And there we've also kept the water running at all the faucets. Pipes do freeze. There's no running water to freeze."
Of the homeless camp on the banks of the White River, "It's not easy. It's not easy at all. It's very cold and people are freezing out here. Really. I mean, even people's. They have hit. We mean, this is, this is no joke."
Volunteers and advocates for the homeless regularly visit this encampment, trying to entice the folks who live here to come into.