Rare winter storm covers Gulf Coast with snow and ice

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Storm chaser Aaron Jayjack is in Houston, Texas, where a rare winter storm has blanketed the city with snow and ice. The city streets have turned into a ghost town due to the rare storm on Jan. 21.

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00:00Aaron Jay Jack in Houston watching the snow fall, you know

00:04But I can tell that the consistency of the snow when you first reported this morning

00:08It was those big what I call big bomber flakes big flakes now as the cold air gets deeper and deeper

00:15It's more of a drier snow and it's really starting to accumulate Aaron. How much do you have?

00:24Yeah, that's definitely right now, you know, we were seeing those big huge flakes earlier now almost

00:29I was under some trees earlier is almost kind of an icier snow

00:32I could hear it hitting the trees right above me, but we're probably sitting around that two-inch mark

00:37Maybe two and a half inches so far, but it looks like you know

00:40We're gonna continue to get this snowfall for several more hours

00:43I was looking at radar and some of the more widespread coverage that I've seen before, you know earlier

00:48We kind of had those bands of snow that moved through so there be

00:51Moments where the snow is heavier and lighter at times, but now it's more of a you know, a more widespread

00:57Steady snowfall that's falling here in downtown, Houston

01:01You know people are starting to actually come out more than you know

01:04Pretty much a ghost town early this morning starting to get light out now a little bit later in the morning

01:09People are starting to venture out walk around

01:11I actually just watched a guy doing some doughnuts here in this parking lot a few minutes ago

01:15Probably first time he's ever got to test out his four-wheel drive vehicle in the snow

01:19He's lived here all his life because this is a rare event here in the Houston area a once-in-a-lifetime event here

01:25You know, this is the first time I've ever covered a winter storm along the Gulf Coast and this is a widespread

01:31you you mentioned a thousand miles, you know from San Antonio and I-10 through Houston East and to Louisiana where they've actually got a

01:38blizzard warning right now in southeastern, Texas Beaumont, Texas, southwestern, Louisiana

01:42And points further to the east later today all the way to the the Texas the Florida panhandle

01:47We'll see this wintry mix is wintry

01:50Winter storm impacting the area, but again people are starting to venture out the snow is continuing to pile up

01:56They got people dancing in the snow out here. I've talked to several people

02:00This is the first time they've ever seen snow

02:02They one guy was from Florida and he moved here and he's like I've never seen snow before and big smile on his face

02:08So, you know, it might be

02:10You know up north there might be another day of snow for people up north, but for here this is a this is an event

02:16This is a lifetime something. Don't probably remember the rest of their lives what happened with this winter storm here and early 2025

02:23So back to you guys from Houston, Texas

02:25Wow, yeah, just imagine people who you know

02:28Maybe adults and they've never seen snow before and it's you know, it does

02:32I mean even I get excited for the first snowfall so we can imagine there

02:35You can see it accumulating in his beard to a snow star to move on through. We appreciate that update from Aaron J jack

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