Facing a frosty morning, Texas shivered with wind chills below zero during the week of Jan. 14-20. Even as businesses reopened after the holidays, major school districts stayed closed due to icy conditions. “It is very, very cold,” Mayor Kirk Watson of Austin said on Jan. 15 in an interview with The New York Times. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) asked for energy conservation on the...

Dallas College campuses were closed from Jan. 30 at 5 p.m. until Feb. 4 at 9 a.m. due to the ice storm that made North Texas look like an ice-skating rink. On Monday afternoon, the district started to send the inclement weather alerts through social media, texts and phone calls so students, faculty and staff could be prepared and ready to leave campus before the storm hit.