A bitter cold gripped North Texas on Friday as a massive winter storm pummeled much of the country, knocking out power to millions, snarling holiday travel...
A bitter cold gripped North Texas on Friday as a massive winter storm pummeled much of the country, knocking out power to millions, snarling holiday travel and dumping snow and ice on many regions.
Temperatures dipped to 11 degrees early Friday morning at DFW International Airport — with a wind chill of negative 9 — then hovered in the teens much of the day before eventually reaching 25 degrees. Friday’s low made it the third-coldest Dec. 23 on record for Dallas-Fort Worth, with the coldest in 1989 at negative 1, according to the weather service.
Yet much of Texas breathed a sigh of relief that the state’s power grid withstood soaring demand, unlike the devastating 2021 winter storm during which millions were left without heat and water for days and more than 240 people died. MedStar, which services 15 Tarrant County cities, said it responded to 42 freeze-related emergencies, and at least one weather-related death was reported. A man was found unresponsive about noon Thursday behind a fast-food restaurant on East Lancaster Avenue in Fort Worth; he died at a hospital,Dallas Fire-Rescue responded to 22 environmental emergencies and 226 calls of “cut off water” — usually meaning burst pipes — on Friday, spokesman Jason Evans said.
Nearly 15,000 flights nationwide had been delayed or canceled by Friday evening, with massive disruptions in Chicago, Denver, New York, Seattle and Washington, D.C.FlightAware reported
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