Wintry weather begins in Texas

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AccuWeather correspondent Leslie Hudson was reporting live from Houston on the evening of Jan. 20 as snow began to fall ahead of a potentially record-setting storm.

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00:00AccuWeather correspondent Leslie Hudson joins us from Houston, Texas as the storm unfolds across the south.

00:07And our coverage continues right now with Leslie Hudson. So Leslie, how are things going out there?

00:13Saw a couple of flurries. Oh, very exciting. All right, it's starting. Sorry. Yeah, Aaron J. Jack

00:22was telling me he actually saw a few, few flurries out here. So we're gonna see if that starts to

00:27pick up a little bit more. And of course, we're anticipating that in spades tonight with this

00:32winter storm warning that all of the Houston area is under and pretty much most of the eastern

00:37coastline of Texas, even all the way almost down to Mexico, gonna expect to deal with this brutal

00:42blast of cold weather. Now, there is going to be a true logistical nightmare anticipated tomorrow.

00:48I was at the airport today, the George Bush International Airport, and things were going

00:53pretty smoothly. They did have several hundred cancellations, maybe preemptively. I know I got a

01:00text from my airlines asking me if I wanted to reschedule my flights. So that may have been

01:04some of that. But of course, all of the airports and the major transportation hubs here in Houston

01:10are expected to be closed tomorrow in anticipation of this record snow event. Now, when you say

01:16record, you would think, you know, feet of snow in the northeast. But here in the Gulf Coast states,

01:21it's only a few inches. So if they get four inches or a little bit more than that, they will

01:26be the second highest snow total ever for Houston. The highest was set back in the 1800s, late 1800s.

01:33And so there, actually, I think it just had a little snow flurry right there. So I think we're

01:37starting to see a little bit of activity, you guys. And of course, through the overnight, this will ramp

01:42up. There is some concern of the icing on the roads as well. The weather will get some freezing

01:46rain first, and then this will roll over into a snow event. All of that has yet to be played out

01:52and determined as we head into tomorrow. But the folks here are anticipating it. Again, the school

01:58is also closed in this area. Probably going to be closed Wednesday as well, if we had to guess,

02:03because that is also a concern with the bitterly cold weather that's going to keep the snow on the

02:07ground. And definitely seeing something here in front of our camera. So we're starting to see

02:12some of that precip. Can't tell if that was a little bit of freezing rain or not, but I'm

02:17definitely going to start to see some of that wintry precipitation roll through this area in

02:22the next 24 hours. So we're going to be here. We're up and at it early tomorrow, tracking it all for you

02:27for AccuWeather. For now, I'm Leslie Hudson reporting. Oh, I want to show you real quick,

02:31you guys, in downtown Houston. One of the things that they're concerned with is these power grids.

02:35So this is a substation here in downtown, and they're concerned that there might be a push from

02:40the locals to ramp up their heating in their houses to kind of get things warmer than normal

02:45in case they do lose power. So the concern is we could see some rolling outages. They're trying to

02:51mitigate that, and we'll see how that plays out tomorrow. Back to you. Thank you, Leslie. Yeah,

02:55I know that's been an issue in the past, so definitely something we'll be keeping an eye on.

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