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PHOTOS: Scenes from the North Texas snow day

KERA | By Keren I. Carrión
Published February 3, 2022 at 9:31 AM CST
A Dallas resident drives a four-wheeler through a Walmart parking lot during Thursday's snowstorm.
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A Dallas resident drives a four-wheeler through a Walmart parking lot during Thursday's snowstorm.
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A man is seen walking on a snowy sidewalk through the frigid winter weather in Dallas.
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The City of Dallas is opening a temporary inclement weather shelter in Fair Park’s Automobile Building located at 1010 First Ave. The doors opened at noon on Wednesday, and will remain open around the clock for anyone seeking shelter from the cold.
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A public works truck passes by an intersection carrying sand and salt for the icy roads in Dallas.
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In Dallas, about 40 public works trucks will be sanding and salting local roads and bridges. The city’s transportation department will work to install temporary traffic signals and stop signs in places where traffic signals aren’t working, Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson said.
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Two smaller trees wilt, while the branches touch the ground with ice during the winter storm, with power lines in the background, on Feb. 3, 2022.
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About 30,000 ENCOR customers woke up without power on Thursday morning.
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A snow storm hits North Texas, on Feb. 3, 2022.
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A usually busy intersection in Plano, Texas is empty and blanketed with snow on Thursday morning.
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A snow storm hits North Texas, on Feb. 3, 2022.
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White Rock Lake in Northeast Dallas became frigid with Thursday's below-freezing temperatures.
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A snow storm hits Dallas on Feb. 3, 2022.
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As freezing rain continues across North Texas, the state transportation department's treating roadways as quickly as possible. "Trying to limit the amount of traffic that's on the roadways certainly does make it safer and it also gives our crews more room to get their work done," Kenna Mitchell with TXDoT said.
Keren Carrión / KERA News
The AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas is seen covered in snow on Thursday.
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The AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas is seen covered in snow on Thursday.
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A Fort Worth convenience store displays a sign saying they've shut down because of the winter storm.
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A Fort Worth convenience store shuts down because of the winter storm Thursday.
Miranda Suarez / KERA News

North Texas is experiencing below-freezing temperatures and a mix of snow, sleet, and freezing rain as a cold front moves across much of the state. Have a photo to share? Email yours along with your name and location of the photo to digitalnews@kera.org.

The National Weather Service issued a winter storm watch for North Texas and other regions of the state ahead of bitter cold and a chance of sleet, snow and ice late Wednesday through Friday.

Temperatures plummeted into the low-20s overnight Wednesday, and they'll remain in the teens and 20s throughout Thursday and Friday. Total snow and sleet accumulations are up to 3 inches, as well as wind gusts up to 35 mph.

The storm won’t be as cold or last as long as last year’s deadly freeze, when temperatures dropped below zero and left thousands of homes without heat for days. Nearly 250 people died across Texas during the 2021 storm.

Take a look at some of the submitted photographs of the storm from across North Texas:

The Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge is covered with ice as a driver makes their way across during the winter storm
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The Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge is covered with ice as a driver makes their way across during the winter storm, on the morning of Feb. 3, 2022.
A snow storm hits North Texas, on Feb. 3, 2022.
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A snow storm hits North Texas, as seen from a rooftop in the Knox/Henderson neighborhood in Dallas, on Feb. 3, 2022.
A snow storm hits North Texas, on Feb. 3, 2022.
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Ice crystals form around berries in Richardson, Texas, on Feb. 3.
A group of people walk in the snow.
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Neighbors walking in Arlington neighborhood just north of UTA, on Feb. 3, 2022
A snow storm hits North Texas, on Feb. 3, 2022.
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Fergie the Sheltie surveys her snowy neighborhood in North Dallas.
A snow storm hits North Texas, on Feb. 3, 2022.
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Pigeons pecker through the empty street blanketed with snow in West Village, Dallas, on Feb. 3.
A snow storm hits North Texas, on Feb. 3, 2022.
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Icicles form on a street lamp in Oak Lawn, Dallas, on Thursday, Feb. 3.
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Keren I. Carrión
Keren I. Carrión is a visual journalist for KERA in Dallas as well as The Texas Newsroom, a journalism collaboration among the public radio stations of Texas and NPR. She is currently a Report for America corps member.
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