Winter Weather Texas
Brian Hawkins walks along Quorum Drive, Friday, Feb. 27, 2015, in Addison, Texas. A Texas snowstorm has closed schools, snarled traffic and forced a main highway to Oklahoma to shut down after dozens of vehicles slipped off the road. (The Associated Press/The Dallas Morning News/Smiley N. Pool)
An overnight storm that pelted parts of Texas and Oklahoma with freezing rain has forced the cancellation of nearly 1,000 flights at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, includingseveral to and from Portland International Airport.
Transportation officials and the National Weather Service warned people to stay off the roads until temperatures rise and the ice melts. Forecasters issued a winter weather advisory for the Dallas-Fort Worth area until Saturday night.
Flight tracker Flightaware.com reported 974 flights canceled at DFW airport by late Saturday morning.
Airport spokesman David Magana says about 5,000 stranded passengers were forced to spend the night at the airport after another 600 flights were canceled Friday. The airport provided cots, blankets and toiletries to the passengers.
Area temperatures are expected in the upper 40s Sunday.
One Portlander gets a ride home from Alaska Air.But American Airlines is gracious about it.-- The Associated Press.
Source: http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2015/02/dallas_weather_forces_several.html
