Emergency declared in some Texas counties. So far its freezing rain that has caused problems
Some local power issues due to ice buildup. It's not predicted to be a long cold spell.
From Accuweather:
Ice plagued a large swath of the United States Thursday evening as the multifaced storm continued its trek, contributing to power outages and life-threatening travel conditions across the nation.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a disaster declaration for 17 counties Thursday evening, saying, "This ice storm poses an imminent threat of severe property damage, injury, or loss of life," as temperatures plunged into the low 20s across a large portion of the state and various forms of frozen precipitation accumulated.
Texas was one of the numerous states impacted by an expansive winter storm that disrupted air travel across the country and led to mayhem on the roads, resulting in at least one fatality, according to officials.
Denton County, where AccuWeather National Reporter Bill Wadell had previously reported on the storm, was listed as one of the counties included in the disaster declaration on Thursday.
"Everything is turning into an icy glaze," Wadell had said in a report for the AccuWeather TV network earlier while holding a small tree branch encased in ice. The tree it had come from was no different. "Especially when the wind blows, you can hear that crunch a little bit. We know this is just getting started."
The storm slowed air travel at airports in Texas, Illinois, Colorado and Ohio, with a total of over 5,200 flights in the U.S. canceled on Thursday, according to FlightAware.
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport saw over 1,400 arrival and departure cancellations with at least another 156 flights delayed as of Thursday night. Some of the grounded flights followed American Airlines making the call to cancel the rest of its inbound flights to Dallas-Fort Worth Thursday night.
= new reply since forum marked as read
