Deadly ice and winter storm knocks out power and disrupts travel across Texas – Continues to sweep across portions of the Southern Plains

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Ice storm Texas Jan 31-Feb 1 2023
Deadly Ice and winter storm across Texas Jan 31-Feb 1 2023

A deadly winter storm continued to sweep across portions of the Southern Plains and the Southeast on Wednesday, prompting widespread power outages in Texas and disrupting travel.

By 8 a.m. Eastern time, more than 200,000 customers in Texas were without electricity, according to PowerOutage.us, which aggregates data from utilities across the country.

More than 1,800 flights within, into, or out of the United States had been canceled as of early Wednesday, according to FlightAware, a flight-tracking company. Most of the cancellations were reported in Texas, including more than 850 flights at airports in Dallas and Austin.

At least two deaths in Texas have been attributed to the storm, which began on Monday and was not expected to ease on Wednesday. One final surge of moisture was forecast to overrun the subfreezing air, leading to more icy conditions from Texas through the majority of the Southeast, the National Weather Service said.

Additional ice accumulations of up to half an inch were expected across central and north-central Texas and southern Arkansas, the Weather Service said. Lesser ice accumulations were predicted to hit other areas in Arkansas as well as parts of Oklahoma and Tennessee.

“This amount of ice accretion on top of what has already fallen is likely to lead to more treacherous travel across untreated roadways, along with the potential for tree damage and power outages,” meteorologists said.

At a news conference on Tuesday afternoon, Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas said that local outages were expected because of icing on power lines. “The power grid is functioning just fine as we speak,” he said, and warned that driving conditions in parts of the state were “extremely dangerous.”

In February 2021, a winter storm pushed the power grid in Texas to the brink of collapse and led to the deaths of more than 200 people. Millions of residents were forced to boil water, use generators, huddle in idling cars for heat and scour for wood to feed fires during some of the most frigid weather in state history.

On Tuesday, the police in Arlington, Texas, said on Facebook that one person had died in a rollover accident on Interstate 20. The conditions also led to one fatality in a crash that involved 10 vehicles, according to the Austin Fire Department. In Travis County, a deputy was struck by an 18-wheel truck and was pinned beneath one its tires after attempting to help a disabled truck on the highway. He is expected to survive.

Citing the weather conditions, schools in both Dallas and Austin said they would be closed on Wednesday, as did the Dallas Zoo.

In Arkansas, where Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders declared a state of emergency earlier this week, another round of wintry precipitation and freezing rain was forecast through Thursday morning. Officials across the state repeatedly asked drivers to stay off the roads if they could. Similar messages about driver safety were issued by the authorities in Oklahoma and Tennessee.

This winter has brought a mixed bag of weather to large swaths of the South. Last week, a tornado tore through communities southeast of Houston, destroying a senior assisted-living center and causing other damage. In Louisiana, three people were hospitalized with injuries after storms damaged mobile homes northwest of Baton Rouge. Earlier this month, at least eight people were killed after a string of severe storms and tornadoes roared through Alabama and Georgia. [NYT]

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10 Comments

  1. .50cal Feb 1, 2023 At 1:39 pm

    Army and police always side with totalitarians. The Iranian people as well as other people will have to water the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants. Otherwise slavery.
    Yes my friend you are always right ..i am speech less so i just say very great comment.

  2. This is New World Order of them destruction’s of global humanity. Ice Age in USA… HAARP and much more weapons of mass destruction’s that we do not know and been accessed by them. Now humanity
    is pushed to WW3 started and will never get better from Iran to Ukraine and Russia, China and North Korea , they have humanity at their hands… Israel sends final warning to stupid mullahs stop atom bombs now or we are coming after you all… We told you here put warning Israel attack without contac is coming and it happened.. Again we never give you date or hour or minutes of it… We protect our
    USA soldiers and Israeli pilots.. We ask Iranian army make coup now finish these terrorist regime ASAP or bombs will fall on Ayatollahs armies sooner than later.. There was news yesterday many of
    soldiers had disagreements with stupid damn superiors and gun shots were heard all day. We ask Iranian army you belong to cypress the great and need make Koodeta now now…Kill all Ayatollahs and your superiors for better and democratic Iran…

    • Army and police always side with totalitarians. The Iranian people as well as other people will have to water the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants. Otherwise slavery.

      • If a person actually reads the Constitution, it forbids a permanent standing Army during peace time. It provides for a full time Navy and I’m certain had planes been around an Air Force as well. But no permanent standing army for reason you just noted. Historically they always get used against the people.

      • Yep Gary,
        Now we are in post Constitutional America. Nobody will revolt until they have lost everything. By then it will be too late.

  3. Hopefully it will freeze the illegal alien invaders from sneaking across our border. If they do get into Texas, then Abott can send them by bus to Kamalabama’s house, or Spew York.

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