Overview
- In North Texas, NTTA and TxDOT began pretreating bridges, overpasses and major corridors on Wednesday, with sensors and more than 2,000 cameras monitoring conditions and Fort Worth District teams working 12‑hour shifts with roughly 250 pieces of equipment and 350 employees.
- San Antonio’s TxDOT district plans to start spraying brine Thursday using about 800,000 gallons on interstates and loops, with an emergency operations center set to open Friday at noon and a request for people to avoid travel if possible.
- GDOT has been applying brine since Sunday to cover roughly 6,000 miles of interstates, bridges and state routes, with plans to transition to rock salt or calcium chloride where needed and guidance for drivers to stay at least 100 feet behind trucks.
- In the Texarkana region, TxDOT is pretreating I‑20, I‑30 and U.S. 59, while ARDOT readies large salt reserves, up to 600 plows and 700 spreaders, and may deploy beet‑juice “super brine” to lower the freezing point on roadways.
- Houston‑area crews expect to begin brining Thursday evening as conditions allow, noting rain can wash treatments away and that city resources are limited, while county teams plan to spread reusable chat rock on key bridges and stress travel only for essential needs.