I just got off the phone with a friend of mine, who lives in Dallas, Texas; he was just telling me about the frigid temperatures and several inches of sleet and snow they have received. In Dallas. Dallas, Texas. Right? That's not something Texans are generally expecting, but right now, a big swath of the United States is getting hammered by a major winter storm, and boy howdy, it's a sockdologer.
A major winter storm is tearing across America right now with nearly 180 million people under some type of winter weather alert. Crippling ice has cut power to thousands of people across the South while snow slams the Northeast. Stay here throughout the day for the most comprehensive and up-to-the-minute weather news as the storm moves into the Northeast.
Here are a couple of specifics:
We are currently working to assess the damage from the ice storm that impacted our electric system last night. Currently 11 of 16 circuits are out (>7,000 customers). ROW crews are working to remove limbs and trees from the lines so we can begin the repair and restoration effort. pic.twitter.com/s2Lo0cVdzw
— Oxford Utilities (@OxfordUtilities) January 25, 2026
TXANS Update—1/25/2026: The ERCOT Weather Watch continues through January 27. Texans can monitor real-time and extended grid conditions on https://t.co/qI0IdnOhug. If you are currently experiencing an outage, it is likely local in nature. Please contact your local power provider,…
— ERCOT (@ERCOT_ISO) January 25, 2026
That post concludes:
Please contact your local power provider, found on the Public Utility Commission of Texas’ Storm Resources page: http://bit.ly/3NwhCVT. Learn more about Weather Watches and sign up for #TXANS notifications: http://ercot.com/txans.
It's a heck of a time for a lot of folks who don't see this kind of weather all that often.
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The whole thing looks to be getting complicated, as continent-spanning weather systems frequently do. There are tornado warnings out for states bordering the Gulf of America. Areas that rarely see snow and freezing temperatures are getting hit. There are a lot of folks, from Dallas to New York, who would just love to see a little bit of global warming right about now.
Of course, the problem isn't the snow and ice so much as the fact that this is happening to communities ill-equipped to deal with it, because it happens so infrequently. When I was stationed at Ft Sam Houston, Texas, in San Antonio, I think it was in the winter of 1987, there was an ice storm, and the whole city shut down for a day, because the city had no equipment to deal with it; they just had to wait for it to melt. That's happening all over the southeastern United States right now.
Here in the Great Land, we're used to this sort of thing. I'll go for long walks when it's 10 below, but 10 below here is a different sort of thing; for one thing, 10 below on a bright, sunny, still day is a lot different than 10 below in a howling blizzard. Also, 10 below is nothing unusual here, and we all have the gear for it.
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If you're in the path of this storm, take it from an Alaskan: Stay home. Stay indoors. Stay warm. And stay safe. Here are some helpful links.
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