Sloan with Techspot Dallas.
Are you there with us?
Hi there. Hi, how are you
doing this morning? Hey good.
Well, we are doing OK as we are at
been at work for a few hours now.
We've extended our coverage because
you know we could not have foreseen
that the accident load out there
would be so widespread.
We knew there was going to be refreeze.
We knew this would be tricky.
But it appears that we understand
that crews have said that they
have been just seeing people
just flying on the highway.
And that's what I'm hearing as well.
I've been on the phone with our maintenance
crews this morning and they have been
working around the clock since, you know,
Saturday, trying to pretreat, retreat,
plow through our roads and get all of
that frozen precipitation off the road.
And they've done that. But this black ice,
everything just refroze at the snap
of our fingers into these overnight,
early morning hours.
And I think, you know what I keep saying is,
is it seems that drivers have
had a false sense of. Security.
I know a lot of us have been
in our homes for several days.
They're so crazy.
You're ready to get out of the house.
But we are almost out of the woods,
so please stay home.
If you have not gotten out yet,
just bear with us.
And and and don't get out on these roadways,
because that black ice is really hard to see.
There were reports of widespread freezing
fog all across the Metroplex this morning,
and that is the biggest message right now.
It seems a little ironic, Kendall,
that the conditions that made roads passable
yesterday may have very well led to this.
You had melting frozen precipitation.
That ice kind of melted yesterday,
so it meant, hey, we could drive for
the first time for a lot of folks,
you had that rain coming down,
which may have washed away a lot
of that pretreatment so that when
things freeze over yet again,
you're stuck with an even worse situation.
And it makes it so hard for
your trucks to get out there.
Hard for emergency responders as well.
It's and it seems like again.
Folks got a taste of freedom yesterday
and and we may have overestimated our
abilities on the roadways this morning.
You're seeing that a lot right now
that the bridges and overpasses are
100% the biggest cause of concern and
and biggest problem spots this morning
because those have frozen over a much
quicker than the rest of the roadway.
So if you can avoid them at all costs,
you can do have to get out and
take those frontage roads.
That's the best piece of advice.
And our crews, you know,
I asked them that very question,
you know, we saw a little bit more of
rain or drizzle come down yesterday,
but they continued to.
To retreat with brine and our
sand and salt mixture.
But that can only do so much.
We're doing everything that we can to
keep everyone as safe as possible,
but these drivers have to do their
part as well and that's keeping
as much space between you and the
other cars around you as possible.
Don't proud our crews,
if you do see them out,
please give them enough space
to do their job as well
and and how. I know your crews have
been working continuously for days now.
What will that look like moving
forward over the next 24 hours?
Will they be doing?
There have been no talks of,
of stopping or getting out of
these constant 24 hour shifts yet.
We take that very,
very seriously and they're going
to continue to stay out and and
monitor the entire Metroplex and
treat and retreat those hotspots
and those trouble spots as needed.
And we won't stop those 24
hour shifts until this entire
weather event is well behind us.
One of the things we discussed
earlier with Dallas Fire and Rescue
Kendall was that every additional.
Car on the roadways only
adds to that gridlock,
whether it is on those freeways and the
interstates or folks having to use the
side streets to get to the destination.
Again, just kind of a reminder that if
you don't have to get out right now,
you can wait a few hours,
you should do so.
Yes, that is the biggest message and
we can't stress it enough because
we are seeing just way too many
cars on the roadway right now.
I mean, look how look how slowly
they're having to go right now,
proceeding with caution.
If you do have to stay home again,
we are almost out of this.
I'm so happy to see the sun coming out
this morning as I know everyone else is.
And that's really going to help us melt
all of this away and stay out of it.
But this is Texas and weather
can change on a dime.
So, so please, please, please.
Just continue to monitor the forecast
as we've all been doing and to
just stay at home if you possibly
can so everyone can stay safe.
We don't want anyone else to get hurt.
All right. We appreciate it.
Kendall Stone, thank you so much
for the update and we will.
Hopefully we don't have to talk
to you again, but you know,
at this point, anything's possible.
I'm here if you need me.
Thanks. Texas.org as well for
the very latest Rd. condition.
Appreciate it. Yes. Thank you
for the hard work. OK, Greg. So.