Houston huddles down for another day of cold weather
January 17, 2018 by admin
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Evan Koach throws a snowball at Trent Nolen at Riverwood Middle School, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018, in Kingwood. The National Weather Service issued a Winter Storm Warning for southeast Texas until midnight Wednesday.
Evan Koach throws a snowball at Trent Nolen at Riverwood Middle School, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018, in Kingwood. The National Weather Service issued a Winter Storm Warning for southeast Texas until midnight
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as a winter storm brought freezing rain and ice throughout the greater Houston area, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018. The National Weather Service issued a Winter Storm Warning for southeast Texas until midnight Wednesday.
as a winter storm brought freezing rain and ice throughout the greater Houston area, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018. The National Weather Service issued a Winter Storm Warning for southeast Texas until midnight
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tasts ice as he plays in front of his house after a winter storm brought freezing rain and ice throughout the greater Houston area, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018. The National Weather Service issued a Winter Storm Warning for southeast Texas until midnight Wednesday.
tasts ice as he plays in front of his house after a winter storm brought freezing rain and ice throughout the greater Houston area, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018. The National Weather Service issued a Winter Storm
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William Johnson, 14, rides his bike as sleet rains down after a winter storm brought freezing rain and ice throughout the greater Houston area, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018. The National Weather Service issued a Winter Storm Warning for southeast Texas until midnight Wednesday.
William Johnson, 14, rides his bike as sleet rains down after a winter storm brought freezing rain and ice throughout the greater Houston area, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018. The National Weather Service issued a
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A rare winter storm brought the Houston region to a virtual standstill Tuesday, bringing sub-freezing temperatures that left one person dead and icy roads that caused hundreds of accidents even as most of area schools, governments and businesses closed their doors for the day.
Faced with continuing frigid temperatures through at least midday Wednesday, dozens of school districts, colleges and agencies announced another round of closures as officials called for Houstonians to give the weather – and the roads – one more day to warm up.
“It makes no sense to put your employees in harm’s way unless its absolutely necessary that they be at work,” Harris County Judge Ed Emmett said late Tuesday.
Mayor Sylvester Turner urged residents to stay off the roads until the ice begins to thaw.
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School closings
Colleges and universities
The University of Houston and its Downtown, Katy and Sugar Land campuses
Texas Southern University
The University of St. Thomas (residential move-in at all the residence halls will happen from noon to 7 p.m.)
Prairie View A M University
Houston Community College
Houston Baptist University, though online classes and evening athletic events will be held as scheduled
Lone Star College
South Texas College of Law Houston
Public schools
Aldine ISD
Alief ISD
Alvin ISD
Anahuac ISD
Angleton ISD
Barbers Hill ISD
Brazosport ISD
Channelview ISD
Clear Creek ISD
Cleveland ISD
Columbia-Brazoria ISD
Conroe ISD
Crosby ISD
Cypress-Fairbanks ISD
Damon ISD
Deer Park ISD
Dickinson ISD
Fort Bend ISD
Friendswood ISD
Galena Park ISD
Galveston ISD
Goose Creek CISD
Hempstead ISD
Hitchcock ISD
Houston ISD
Huffman ISD
Humble ISD
Katy ISD
KIPP: Houston Public Schools
Klein ISD
La Porte ISD
Lamar CISD
Magnolia ISD
Montgomery ISD
Navasota ISD
New Caney ISD
Odyssey Academy (all campuses)
Pasadena ISD
Pearland ISD
Royal ISD
Santa Fe ISD
Sealy ISD
Sheldon ISD
Splendora ISD
Spring ISD
Spring Branch ISD
Stafford MSD
Texas City ISD
Tomball ISD
Waller ISD
Willis ISD
YES Prep Public Schools
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“If you don’t have to be on the road, please don’t be on the roads,” Turner said. “For the next 24 hours it’s going to be somewhat treacherous out there.”
The winter storm sent an icy mix across much of South, Central and East Texas, closing schools from Galveston to Austin, San Antonio, Waco and Tyler along with most of the state’s major universities.
AT HOME: With schools and day care centers closed, parents find other options for their kids
The storm moved through the Houston region during the day Tuesday, sending temperatures into the 20s as sleet, snow and freezing rain blanketed the area with a thin but dangerous layer of ice. Temperatures early Wednesday were expected to plummet again into the 20s – levels not seen in January since 1996.
The record low for Houston on Jan. 17 came in 1930, when temperatures dropped to 15 degrees.
Across the region, nearly 100,000 CenterPoint customers lost power, but almost all had been restored by Tuesday evening.
But sunshine is in the forecast. The National Weather Service in Houston predicted Wednesday would be sunny with a high near 40, and warming temperatures the rest of the week could push Sunday to near 70, albeit with rain.
Warming centers open
Dozens of schools districts – including Houston, Cypress-Fairbanks, Katy, Humble and Pasadena – closed for a second day on Wednesday, adding to the missed days this school year caused by severe weather. Local universities – including the University of Houston and Texas Southern University – also remained closed Wednesday.
The Houston Fire Department remained busy, responding to more than 450 calls in 17 hours, Chief Samuel Pena said. Officials warned residents to take extra care with space heaters and to avoid using extension cords.
The brutal cold sent at least two people to the hospital with hypothermia, and one man, who was believed to have been homeless, was found dead on the city’s south side near in the 6700 block of Telephone Road near Bellfort.
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WHAT TO DO? No ice scraper? No problem.
About 400 people arrived at two warming centers set up by the American Red Cross at South Main Baptist Church and Pleasant Missionary Grove Baptist Church. The Houston Police Department also spent part of Tuesday offering to give free rides to Houstonians living in encampments near Minute Maid Park – an effort that Chief Art Acevedo said ended with many “having a change of heart and agreeing to be transported.”
Still, officials said many remained in harm’s way Tuesday night.
“We still have a number of people who are on our streets, and we want to get them off the streets and into a warmer environment,” Turner said.
Stay home today
Nearly 400 vehicle accidents were reported on Harris County roadways, including more than two dozen major accidents, Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said.
Houston alone had more than 300 accidents throughout the day, prompting Acevedo to join other Texas officials in pleading for drivers to stay off of the roads.
“Driving conditions are extremely treacherous around the entire region right now,” he wrote on Twitter about 2 p.m., citing a 1,000-foot stretch of where the chief said he saw a half-dozen accidents.
HEADING OUT: Tips for driving on icy roads from people who know
Texas Department of Transportation officials said they had dozens of crews working around the clock in the Houston area to de-ice roadways, working first to reopen freeways closed by the icy conditions. At least 100 roadways were impacted by icy conditions, with 20 of them impassable, TxDOT officials said.
Thoroughfares like Texas 225 and the Fred Hartman Bridge over the Houston Ship Channel were particularly icy, TxDOT officials said.
In Fort Bend County, authorities closed portions of major highways Tuesday, including the Grand Parkway, Southwest Freeway and Westpark Tollway.
“All things considered, things have been going rather well in Fort Bend County,” Fort Bend County Judge Bob Hebert said. “We responded to it right – by we, I mean everybody.”
Fort Bend County offices and courts will be closed again on Wednesday, and all non-essential employees were told to remain home.
Hospitals in the Texas Medical Center remained operational, though some also sent home non-essential employees. Some elective procedures and clinic appoints were canceled.
Is winter over?
Good news appears to be ahead. Nearly five months after Hurricane Harvey and one month after the Bayou City residents awoke to their first snowfall in years, this week’s chilly temperatures are expected to the last bit of winter in Houston this season, said Eric Berger, a Houston meteorologist who writes for the popular Space City Weather blog.
“The second half of this month does appear likely to be noticeably warmer than our cold start to 2018,” Berger wrote recently. “While there are always caveats about long-range forecasts, it seems that the pattern will change, with more of the colder air getting shunted off to the east before diving south all of the way to the Gulf Coast.”
Shelby Webb, Rebecca Elliott, Meagan Flynn, Jacob Carpenter, Todd Ackerman, Brooke Lewis and Emily Foxhall contributed.
