This past week we've seen some of the most frigid temperatures in this area since December 1998. Wednesday’s lows reached –20 degrees in Cold Springs. As cold as it may be, most of us have somewhere we can go at the end of the day to escape the intense cold. But for some people we spoke with Wednesday, that's not the case.

Two men. Two lost jobs. Two seemingly sudden fates—in the streets.

Alden Collings lost his job as a cook a couple years ago. Scott Richardson lost his truck driving job three months ago. And like thousand of others since the recession hit, they've found themselves homeless.

Richardson says, “I thought there’s plenty of jobs driving…I never saw it coming, never been homeless like this.”

But now, they must fight a different battle—the bitter cold.

“How many people have they found dead at that river…They just lay down go to sleep get tired of it I guess.”

Collings says he has been homeless during the winter before. But these conditions are almost unbearable.

At nine o'clock Wednesday night, Collings doesn't know where he will sleep.

“The main thing to me is to keep warm, that's the bottom line.”

If Collings doesn’t get a spot in the men’s shelter, he spends the night trying to warm up in casinos, bus stations, or anywhere he can stop before being asked to leave.

“You take it day by day, that's all.”

Richardson got one of 74 spots in the overflow shelter. “We stand outside two and a half hours to get in here every night.”

He is one of the lucky ones, if you can call it that.

“They might say they don't turn people away but people get turned away every night, there's just not enough room.”

These men both say the city is doing a good job with homeless with the resources they have but as the number of homeless people continues to rise, those resources are dwindling. If you’d like to help you can contact the homeless shelter at 355 Record Street Reno, NV 89512. Their phone number is (775) 329-0485.