Travel disrupted in Texas by major winter storm

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Travel was disrupted in Texas due to the major winter storm bringing snow, ice and freezing rain. AccuWeather's Tony Laubach reports from Sanger on the treacherous road conditions on Jan. 10.

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00:00Yeah, and he's been in Dallas. He put on quite a performance for us the last time we checked in.

00:04I don't see the yardstick right now, so I think we can imagine Tony as usual,

00:08but once he picks up that yardstick, it changes. You've moved a little bit, Tony, no?

00:15Yeah, I'm trying to find some places to talk about here in terms of like the snow. I will

00:21say this though, you know, they say everything's bigger in Texas, and I'm going to say that is

00:27not the case because the snowstorms are not bigger in Texas. Yes, for Texas, this is a pretty

00:33good snow. I mean, let's be real, this is not usual for you folks in here, but being from Colorado,

00:39I can tell you we do some whoppers of a snowstorm, so not everything is bigger in Texas.

00:43That all said, it's still a little bit of a mess, especially as you get a little bit further north.

00:48Dallas-Fort Worth, that Metroplex in there, dealing with wet roads with slick spots on

00:53the elevated portions of those highways. Coming up a little bit further to the north, I've noticed

00:58the temperature dropping several degrees, a little bit more issue with some of the ice on the roads,

01:02especially those bridges and overpasses, and the shoulders, a lot more slush and snow on the

01:07shoulders, so a little bit more narrow of a space to navigate on the interstates as opposed to what

01:12was going on in the Metroplex. Overnight, it was really a cold rain. That was really the big issue

01:18for us there. Temperatures right around and just above freezing, so a lot of areas that saw snow

01:24early ended up changing over to sleet and rain, and that knocked down those accumulations a little

01:28bit, though still piling up a couple inches in some spots. Again, the further north you got, you

01:33started to see that tally up a little bit there, maybe about four or five inches as you got a

01:38little bit further to the north. I'm in Sanger, Texas right now, so this would be about 20 miles north

01:43of Denton, and more snow coverage here for sure. We start to see a lot more of the snow before,

01:50and yes, I've got the yardstick here, so we're gonna go, and we're gonna go stick it in and see

01:55if we got any deeper accumulations here. Much the same, you push the yardstick in and you get a

02:01little bit of a frozen layer underneath here. Right now, I'm sitting at about four and a half inches,

02:07so not as impressive a total here, but again, I think that's been padded down a little bit

02:12as we've gone through the day. Big game today, we know here in Texas. It's going to be a cold

02:18one for you, and I got up this morning. I was innocently doing what I normally do when I get

02:23up first thing in the morning, wondering why I'm up in the morning, but get on the clothes, not even

02:28thinking about it, and then you guys go and give me a complex to remind me what color I'm wearing,

02:32so I owe an apology to my Ohio friends. This is not on purpose. This is not a choice. Underneath,

02:42I've got the scarlet on. I'm rooting for my hometown team. This was just,

02:47I have to do it. The bosses make me wear this color, but it is not by choice. Maybe you can

02:52unzip just a little bit to show the scarlet off, and then you can be proud.

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