And of course, we've got coverage
across North Texas today.
Tiffany Liu is in McKinney
this morning in Collin County.
And Tiffany, I know you've been
keeping tabs on the precipitation.
We know it picked up a little bit
there when we checked in with you last.
How are things looking right now?
Well, Mark, I wish I could turn the
camera around and show you what I can't.
I wanted to explain to you guys what
we're doing to actually protect
our camera right now from this.
Lee Thomas has an umbrella to his left,
an umbrella above him,
and he's standing under the hood
of his car because it's been
coming down very consistently,
probably for the last half an hour now.
And I just want to show you guys this.
For the last 15 minutes, I've been
collecting this leak in this umbrella.
You know what,
it's a it's a good amount here,
and that is what we're getting.
You know, pretty consistently,
again like I mentioned,
so if you look at the sidewalk behind me,
if you look at the street that's next to me,
the cars, it's all accumulating.
You want to be extremely careful if
you are stepping out your neighborhood
into your neighborhood this morning.
It is slippery,
it is icy right now and it's extremely cold.
So stay inside if you can.
The Collin County Sheriff's Office
is also encouraging people to not
get on the roads if at all possible.
For now, let's send it over to Chris.
Chris over in Denton County,
how are those roads looking for you?
And we don't have the sleep that
you were just talking about.
The roads though are not great.
Fortunately not a lot of people
out on the road right now.
But you can see we've seen a
lot of the text dot trucks.
In fact, I'd say about half the vehicles
we even see go buy are either a text
dot truck or one of the trucks put
in the brine down some kind of Rd.
maintenance vehicle.
That is the good news because last night
this area at 35 was a complete mess.
People coming home,
I got tweets from people.
Saying that,
it took them a couple hours their
evening commute just because of the ice.
And this place here,
in particular the I-35 overpass
right here in front of Bucky's was
a real trouble spot because the
18 Wheelers were getting stuck,
but fortunately not near as many
people on the road right now.
In fact, you know,
you want to know how dead it is on the road.
Bucky's pretty much has no one
at the gas pumps,
so that is something you rarely ever see.
Even usually Bucky's is packed,
but still a treacherous
situation on the roads.
We know that bumpy, rocky,
rocky in some places,
that cobblestone effect that we
often see after a couple of days
of slush and then refreezing.
So we don't think the roads
will get any better.
Today,
the Department of Emergency Management
here in Denton County warning people
that they expect things to get worse.
So again, just urging everybody
to stay home if they can help it.
Right now, let's see how the roads
are doing out there in Dallas County,
but more importantly, let's see.
Sean, are you staying warm?
I really hope you're staying warm,
buddy.
Nope, no cowardice here.
Genius cowardice. You know,
whatever you wanna call it, we are,
we are outside the car actually has nothing
to do with being a coward or a genius.
I apologize, Chris, you are a genius.
But we want to show you we're
outside the car because we want
to show you what it looks like.
And I would have our, our photographer,
Billy Bryant zoom in,
but he is getting pelted in
the face with sleet right now.
I'm getting pelted in the back,
so I'm not going to turn around too much.
But as you can see,
the roads here at the high 5,
which is 75 and 635 in North Dallas,
are covered in sleep.
We did see a moment ago,
as you can see,
I don't know if you can see on the
right hand side of your screen there's
a car trying to get up the ramp.
Almost that same location.
There was a car that got stuck shortly
about 10-15 minutes ago and it had
to back all the way down the ramp.
We just heard some first responders going by.
So there must be something
happening in the area.
And of course we want to thank
those first responders who have no
choice but to be out today to help
those of you who are getting stuck,
who are having problems.
And if you are one of the people
that has to be out, please,
please, please be safe.
In addition to this,
this sleet and this freezing rain.
And the the slick roads,
it is extremely cold out here in
the wind is not helping things,
so please be safe if you have to get out.
Because it is getting much more dangerous
here on 75 and on these roads right here.
That's how it looks right here.
Let's take a look at Tarrant County,
where Megan has been all morning.
Megan.
Yeah, Sean, I'm also getting pelted
in the face with sleet as well.
So it's not much different,
but we did get it a little bit earlier.
So you could see that it is really white.
I would say it's probably 1/4 of an inch.
And so it's very slippery as well.
Now, one of the things that we're doing
here at the Fort Worth livestock show is
talking to some of the folks who are here,
specifically the families.
I mean, we've seen so many families go by,
they've been here overnight since
1:00 AM and they're telling us that.
You know, they're not used to this weather.
In fact, you can see that there's a snow
Angel, or should I say maybe ice Angel,
sweet Angel or something like that.
So they're having some fun with it,
but especially on those roadways.
One of the other folks who I
was talking with, I asked, hey,
you know, did you just come in?
She goes, yeah, no, no, no.
But you don't want to talk to me,
you know, I just came from across
the street and I said,
well, how was your drive?
She said, oh,
I was slipping and sliding everywhere.
And she's right across the street.
So if you have to make that long
distance drive today, you better be safe.
You don't want to be sorry because even
across the street, even that one block,
it is really dangerous out there.
When you put on your brakes,
you are going to slip.
So especially in these conditions,
please take it slow on the roads,
don't go out as if you don't have to,
as we've been saying.
But if you are, you know,
either an essential worker or you
are here at the livestock show.
I mean the grand prize last year
was $300,000.
So these families are not giving that up.
I mean this is something that you don't
want to dismiss, you don't want to.
You want to take it seriously?
So of course,
what that said,
that's the situations here in
Fort Worth and Tarrant County.
I'm going to now send it back
to you guys in the studio.
Yeah. Thank you for that, Megan.
Of course, a lot of those folks in
town for the stock show came from
all over the country, where they're a
little more used to traversing some
of these roadways than us N Texans.
But a reminder, we have more
freezing rain and sleet on the way,
Greg has told us.
So make sure you've got the WA app
handy to help you track conditions
right down to your neighborhood.
We'll also use that to send
you any alerts with updates.
Road closures as well.
You can use that app in the
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You can get it in whichever
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