Gov. Greg Abbott issued a state of emergency across the entire state due to the massive snow storm, and secured a federal emergency declaration from the White House in order to make additional resources available for communities impacted by the bad weather.
A c c uWe at her Globa l Weather Center said storm warnings were still in effect Wednesday as Texas, the plains and most of the South was covered in snow.
Snow began across the Plains prior to dawn Sunday, with places like Amarillo, Oklahoma City and Wichita, Kansas, reporting snowflakes flying in the area.
As of early Sunday afternoon, over 58,000 customers were without power in Texas, according to PowerOutage. us. That number skyrocketed to over 1.5 million by early Monday morning, according to AccuWeather.
“Every part of the state willin some places—face freezing conditions over the coming days, and I urge all Texans to remain vigilant against the extremely harsh weather that is coming,” said Gov. Abbott. “Stay off the roads, take conscious steps to conserve energy, and avoid dangerous practices like bringing generators indoors or heating homes with ovens or stovetops.”
The current storm just added to the bad weather Texas and Oklahoma have already experienced this winter, however none of them had the magnitude of snow and ice as the current storm system does.
This storm may truly be a “once in a generation” type event when factoring in the brutally cold conditions.
The cold will also help to keep any ice and snow accumulations around for several days following the end of the storm.
The storm will featured an expansive swath of snowfall accumulations at or above a half a foot in some places— Lubbock, Fort Worth and Wichita Falls, where snow really piled up, in addition to Milam County.
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