I'm in DFW, TX and this sitch here is cray-cray. Internet and phone service is out all over the place and around 1.5 million people are without power in these frigid temperatures at my last check.
Even if the electricity doesn't go out from power lines falling from ice-covered trees, power grid windmills freezing up, or a car spinning into a power line pole or something, Oncor started doing ROTATING power outages ON PURPOSE here to conserve energy. It's wild!
TX isn't used to storms like this - we don't keep stockpiles of ice/snow treatment salts or equipment to even distribute them on roads. There was a 130-car wreck on I-35W in Fort Worth last Wed. (2/10/21) due to ice on the roads, killing 6 and injuring around 65 people (CodeMonkey lost a friend in that crash). 2 semi trucks collided with the 2nd one jumping the back of the semi in front of it. Crazy shit!
VIDEO of the beginning of the semi's crashing into each other & subsequent crashes from another driver on the ground: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGaWoNPcbTw
AND
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNsJbdVi5iE
NEWS VIDEO & PICS with aerial shots: https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2021/02/11/pileup-100-cars-trucks-trapped-drivers-interstate-35w-fort-worth/
Really tragic situation. I spun off a highway thru a guardrail and into a ditch driving one ice-covered roads in TX decades ago and vowed to never drive on ice/snow in TX ever again. My rule is STAY HOME in shit like this.
Winter weather events like this simply paralyze our cities in TX. Sure is pretty with all the snow this week though - gotta say! We usually only get nasty ice here, so this nearly half a foot of snow is something to behold here!
I'm in DFW, TX and this sitch here is cray-cray. Internet and phone service is out all over the place and around 1.5 million people are without power in these frigid temperatures at my last check. Even if the electricity doesn't go out from power lines falling from ice-covered trees, power grid windmills freezing up, or a car spinning into a power line pole or something, Oncor started doing ROTATING power outages ON PURPOSE here to conserve energy. It's wild! TX isn't used to storms like this - we don't keep stockpiles of ice/snow treatment salts or equipment to even distribute them on roads. There was a 130-car wreck on I-35W in Fort Worth last Wed. (2/10/21) due to ice on the roads, killing 6 and injuring around 65 people (CodeMonkey lost a friend in that crash). 2 semi trucks collided with the 2nd one jumping the back of the semi in front of it. Crazy shit! VIDEO of the beginning of the semi's crashing into each other & subsequent crashes from another driver on the ground: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGaWoNPcbTw AND https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNsJbdVi5iE NEWS VIDEO & PICS with aerial shots: https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2021/02/11/pileup-100-cars-trucks-trapped-drivers-interstate-35w-fort-worth/ Really tragic situation. I spun off a highway thru a guardrail and into a ditch driving one ice-covered roads in TX decades ago and vowed to never drive on ice/snow in TX ever again. My rule is STAY HOME in shit like this. Winter weather events like this simply paralyze our cities in TX. Sure is pretty with all the snow this week though - gotta say! We usually only get nasty ice here, so this nearly half a foot of snow is something to behold here!
I'm in DFW, TX and this sitch here is cray-cray. Internet and phone service is out all over the place and around 1.5 million people are without power in these frigid temperatures at my last check.
Even if the electricity doesn't go out from power lines falling from ice-covered trees, power grid windmills freezing up, or a car spinning into a power line pole or something, Oncor started doing ROTATING power outages ON PURPOSE here to conserve energy. It's wild!
TX isn't used to storms like this - we don't keep stockpiles of ice/snow treatment salts or equipment to even distribute them on roads. There was a 130-car wreck on I-35W in Fort Worth last Wed. (2/10/21) due to ice on the roads, killing 6 and injuring around 65 people (CodeMonkey lost a friend in that crash). 2 semi trucks collided with the 2nd one jumping the back of the semi in front of it. Crazy shit!
VIDEO of the beginning of the semi's crashing into each other & subsequent crashes from another driver on the ground: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGaWoNPcbTw AND https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNsJbdVi5iE
NEWS VIDEO & PICS with aerial shots: https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2021/02/11/pileup-100-cars-trucks-trapped-drivers-interstate-35w-fort-worth/
Really tragic situation. I spun off a highway thru a guardrail and into a ditch driving one ice-covered roads in TX decades ago and vowed to never drive on ice/snow in TX ever again. My rule is STAY HOME in shit like this.
Winter weather events like this simply paralyze our cities in TX. Sure is pretty with all the snow though this week though - gotta say! We usually only get nasty ice here, so this nearly half a foot of snow is something to behold here!