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What It Sounds Like In a Louisville Homeless Shelter On a Frigid Night

By Devin Katayama
Published February 20, 2015 at 12:01 PM EST

When the temperature dips below 35 degrees, some Louisville homeless shelters open their doors to anyone who needs a bed, regardless of space.

These are called White Flag nights.

This week--after several inches of snowfall--temperatures dropped below zero in the Louisville area.

WFPL asked Thompson Williams,  a monitor at Wayside Christian Mission in downtown Louisville, to carry around a recorder and capture the sounds of a packed shelter on Wednesday, a White Flag night.

Here's what he heard:
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