First Alert Weather: Live updates for Thursday, Dec. 22 - CBS DFW

A MedStar spokesperson said that arsenic of 9:33 p.m. Thursday, 20 patients had been treated for a cold-related unwellness oregon injury.

16 of those 20 patients required transport, a complaint of 80%. Two were listed arsenic serious. 

According to DART, the power contented adjacent Medical Market Center has been fixed. 

However, the autobus shuttle has been canceled. TRE trains person resumed mean operations, but it whitethorn instrumentality clip to resume regular scheduled service. 

Gov. Greg Abbott assured Texans connected Thursday that the powerfulness grid is operating without immoderate problems contempt the falling temperatures.

TRE passengers are being told to expect delays owed to a power contented adjacent Medical Market Center Station. 

Officials judge the occupation is weather-related and person dispatched crews with a de-icer.

In the meantime, a autobus shuttle is successful spot betwixt Medical Market Center and Victory stations.

A MedStar spokesperson said connected Thursday day that arsenic of 3:45 p.m., 12 patients had been treated for a cold-related unwellness oregon injury. 

Eight of those 12 patients required transport, a complaint of 66%. One was classified arsenic "serious."

Seven were male, and 3 were female.  

Their ages ranged from 40 to 77, with the mean falling astatine 53.7.

Oncor says it's intimately monitoring the upwind today, noting that thousands of powerfulness stations and lines person been winterized for precocious winds and utmost cold.

Their connection continues, stating that "should we acquisition powerfulness outages, our crews are acceptable to respond and volition enactment astir the timepiece to get the lights backmost connected arsenic rapidly and safely arsenic imaginable - adjacent connected holidays."

The institution added that their crews are trained to enactment successful each types of upwind conditions, including utmost cold.

If you spot a downed powerfulness line, Oncor says to enactment distant and telephone 911 immediately.

To study an outage substance OUT to 66267, usage the MyOncor app, oregon prime "Report an Outage" located supra the map. You whitethorn besides telephone 888-313-4747 to study your outage.   

Some North Texans affected by powerfulness outages earlier contiguous person since seen the lights travel backmost on, but others haven't been arsenic lucky.

In Tarrant County, the fig of outages dropped from 1,828 to 313 - astir 80% fewer. 

The betterment successful Collin County was a small little drastic, dropping astir 50% from 2,281 to 1,099 outages.

Dallas County, however, has seen an summation successful powerfulness outages. The fig roseate from 1,560 to 1,834.

Oncor inactive does not person an estimated clip of restoration for immoderate of these 3 counties.

Parker County is besides seeing a spike successful outages. About 1,575 customers are without powerfulness astatine the moment, but Oncor estimates it should lone instrumentality until 3:00 p.m. to resoluteness the issue.  

The Tarrant Area Food Bank announced Thursday greeting that it is cancelling the West Mega Mobile Distribution contiguous successful Weatherford owed to weather.

The TAFB West Mission Market astatine 112 Winners Circle successful Weatherford volition stay unfastened until 7:00 p.m. this evening.

According to Oncor, astir 7,000 Texans are presently experiencing powerfulness outages - including implicit 5,700 successful North Texas alone. 

Of those customers, Oncor reports that 1,828 are successful Tarrant County, 1,560 successful Dallas County, and 2,281 successful Collin County.

As of 11:42 a.m., Oncor estimates that powerfulness successful Collin County volition beryllium restored astatine astir 2:00 p.m. today. It's not presently known however agelong it volition instrumentality to reconstruct powerfulness successful Tarrant oregon Dallas Counties.

Light snowfall is falling successful Fort Worth and somewhat accumulating successful immoderate parts. It's not expected to interaction travel, but TXDOT says it's keeping a adjacent oculus connected the roadworthy conditions.

Snow connected the crushed successful Fort Worth. Brittany Rainey

Texas A&M University-Texarkana announced connected Thursday that though the upwind volition person a constricted interaction connected field owed to the clip of year, the schoolhouse volition beryllium affected regardless.

Today, connected Dec. 22, 2022, TAMUT volition adjacent astatine noon. 

Tomorrow, it volition beryllium unfastened betwixt 8:00 a.m. and 12 p.m. with a "skeleton crew" and each departments volition person employees moving remotely earlier closing for wintertime break.

The field volition reopen connected Jan. 2, 2023 astatine 8:00 a.m.

The Prairie Lights lawsuit successful Grand Prairie volition beryllium closed connected Dec. 22 and Dec. 23 retired of interest for the information of their lawsuit staff, organizers announced Thursday morning.

Guests holding pre-purchased wide admittance tickets volition beryllium capable to usage them connected immoderate nighttime done Dec. 31. Those with Fast Passes for contiguous and time nighttime volition person emails astir however to redeem them for different evening.

Currently, the lawsuit is acceptable to reopen connected Christmas Eve and tally done New Year's Eve arsenic erstwhile scheduled. Gates unfastened astatine 6:00 p.m. each nighttime and admittance lines are unfastened until 10 p.m. oregon the parkland fills up.

Hearing of immoderate snowfall flurries present and determination successful the viewing country this morning, similar successful Tarrant and Parker Counties. Also successful Bowie and westbound toward Breckenridge.  Some freezing drizzle is possible.

Don't beryllium amazed if you see/hear astir it.

Should not origin excessively galore problems.

The bitter acold upwind and gusty winds are decidedly the large communicative for each of North Texas.

9:10 a.m. — Light snowfall was seen picking up successful Wise County.

9 a.m. — Along and northbound of I-20, the National Weather Service is upgrading the forecast from snowfall flurries to "legitimate airy snow" this morning.