AccuWeather correspondent Leslie Hudson was reporting live from Houston on the evening of Jan. 20 as snow began to fall ahead of a potentially record-setting storm.
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00:00AccuWeather correspondent Leslie Hudson joins us from Houston, Texas as the storm unfolds across the south.
00:07And our coverage continues right now with Leslie Hudson. So Leslie, how are things going out there?
00:13Saw a couple of flurries. Oh, very exciting. All right, it's starting. Sorry. Yeah, Aaron J. Jack
00:22was telling me he actually saw a few, few flurries out here. So we're gonna see if that starts to
00:27pick up a little bit more. And of course, we're anticipating that in spades tonight with this
00:32winter storm warning that all of the Houston area is under and pretty much most of the eastern
00:37coastline of Texas, even all the way almost down to Mexico, gonna expect to deal with this brutal
00:42blast of cold weather. Now, there is going to be a true logistical nightmare anticipated tomorrow.
00:48I was at the airport today, the George Bush International Airport, and things were going
00:53pretty smoothly. They did have several hundred cancellations, maybe preemptively. I know I got a
01:00text from my airlines asking me if I wanted to reschedule my flights. So that may have been
01:04some of that. But of course, all of the airports and the major transportation hubs here in Houston
01:10are expected to be closed tomorrow in anticipation of this record snow event. Now, when you say
01:16record, you would think, you know, feet of snow in the northeast. But here in the Gulf Coast states,
01:21it's only a few inches. So if they get four inches or a little bit more than that, they will
01:26be the second highest snow total ever for Houston. The highest was set back in the 1800s, late 1800s.
01:33And so there, actually, I think it just had a little snow flurry right there. So I think we're
01:37starting to see a little bit of activity, you guys. And of course, through the overnight, this will ramp
01:42up. There is some concern of the icing on the roads as well. The weather will get some freezing
01:46rain first, and then this will roll over into a snow event. All of that has yet to be played out
01:52and determined as we head into tomorrow. But the folks here are anticipating it. Again, the school
01:58is also closed in this area. Probably going to be closed Wednesday as well, if we had to guess,
02:03because that is also a concern with the bitterly cold weather that's going to keep the snow on the
02:07ground. And definitely seeing something here in front of our camera. So we're starting to see
02:12some of that precip. Can't tell if that was a little bit of freezing rain or not, but I'm
02:17definitely going to start to see some of that wintry precipitation roll through this area in
02:22the next 24 hours. So we're going to be here. We're up and at it early tomorrow, tracking it all for you
02:27for AccuWeather. For now, I'm Leslie Hudson reporting. Oh, I want to show you real quick,
02:31you guys, in downtown Houston. One of the things that they're concerned with is these power grids.
02:35So this is a substation here in downtown, and they're concerned that there might be a push from
02:40the locals to ramp up their heating in their houses to kind of get things warmer than normal
02:45in case they do lose power. So the concern is we could see some rolling outages. They're trying to
02:51mitigate that, and we'll see how that plays out tomorrow. Back to you. Thank you, Leslie. Yeah,
02:55I know that's been an issue in the past, so definitely something we'll be keeping an eye on.