Yes sir I’d be doing my 34 at a casino in Oklahoma..I saw this coming days ago

Same here

Same. I'll drive in two feet of snow, but not on a thin layer of ice. Ice doesn't play fair.

Same!

@@Stickandmove75SAM that’s exactly what I did

There are nice people everywhere, but it looks like Texas needs to invest in snow plows :)

Dont eat burritos if you are trapped in a truck with another person

Oh I was in the area believe me they were cashing in not all but most were charging 200$ to 400$

MR. Drom

I had a boss like that and I told him I'd sue. No problem after that

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Dallas should invest in road salt.

Here in Sweden we have winter tires at all cars, heavy or not!

Yeah, well, no point in putting on snow tires for 3 days of ice that’s gone before you know it.

@@JulietteSasek No point of driving then, either.

@@patmcbride9853 that’s so true.

We don't have snowplows in Texas...LOL

No film was used in the making of this video. It was digitally recorded lol.

@@SagebrushRambles It's still called filming.

Maybe every time the wrecker unhooked, the semi slid backward to where it was before?

Maybe it was how the whole story got its origins...you know, about how our parents got to school.

@@ROCKLIKEACOBB I looked...the tow truck had chains on two of its rear wheels...so, at least it wasn't 'barefoot'.

Celina, and Little Rock...

Moving.

Relocating to Europe.

Greetings from Burleson (just South of Ft. Worth)

If they have forced dispatch, they don't have much choice. As O/O we had a choice and we stayed home.

Good pointers 👍🏻

Yeah, it’s a semi tow truck. Oh. Nvm, I just realized you were talking about the pickup at the beginning.

A large percentage of DFW residents are from snow states.

I’m from Canada, this is nothing. It’s probably time to invest in snow tires.

@@l.faraday8767 of course this ain’t nothing for you but this is Texas

I don't think that would help. Ice storms are just that bad. In Maine we'd probably be shut down for a day or two. Most people stay home, if you're plowing driveways, cutting brush, driving an ambulance you know what you're doing. Notice how many people in the comments here are talking about chains like they're a solution. That's like saying that you can rent some equipment and pave your driveway - you're not wrong, but the results will not be pretty until you get some experience. Unfortunately with winter driving, if you mess up you get stuck or wrecked and then become a problem for others to solve. It's hard to plow roads when they're blocked by crash sites. Texas has a lot of lane miles with not a lot plows. The result is that storm cleanup is going to take several times longer than it would in a colder climate. I would assume about a week if I had to plan for a storm like this. Why not salt? Salt doesn't work well in an ice storm. A half inch of ice is as heavy at two or three inches of dense, wet snow or six plus inches of fluffy powder. To me it looks like some salt may have been used, but these roads need to be plowed. They won't be reliably passable until then.

Too many roads to do. No point when it will just be gone in 3 days anyway. By the time they got to all the roads it’s gone. And cost is a factor too.

Right and with more warming comes more extremes. Warmer ocean produces bigger storms. Meteorology 101

@Frank MacLeod And with more warming comes more agriculture. With more agriculture comes less hungry people. I assume we all want less people to be hungry, so let's all pray for a warmer climate.

There's no salt down here ever! No place to store it, no vehicles to disperse it. The State says, you are Texans, Improvise, Adapt.

Remember the year we had the Super Bowl in Dallas....LOL. What a blooming disaster with the ice!

You said it snow not ice

None of this wintery precip is normal for Texas.

@@SagebrushRambles Not true. You can easily search North TX ice storms historically and realize that, though it doesn't happen every year, it is common.

If you have ice storms, same thing happens. Ice is different and slipprier than snow. Salt clears up snow better than ice.

Ever been snow-skating?

I would agree with your post except for a few things: Texas probably doesn't have salt/sand trucks, nor places to store salt/sand/trucks, and I'm pretty sure they don't have (m)any snowplows.

Combining an unfamiliar traffic pattern with poor traction will risk a head-on collision on the other side of the road.

Salt will not melt ice if the temperature is below freezing, it will just sit there. Now if they mix it with sand and burnt crushed embers it works better. Some states use Sodium-Chloride to pre-treat the road surface 48hrs before the storm but that only works at the beginning and if the storm continues, well you still end up where TX is now: iced up. I lived in the Mountain West for 20+ years and Ohio so I've had my fill of this mess.

@@roymartin3002 I live in Ohio too, they know how to deal and “drive” with such weather. I live in TX for over 16 years, the winter was like Spring/Fall over here.

If you have steady snow and can plow every few hours, salt helps keep the roads nice between passes. This is too much ice and not enough trucks. Salt can't keep up with that, it just makes the road slush more wet and less sticky.

Too costly for 3 days of ice that will be melted before they can even finish treating all the roads.

@@prisca2774 DFW residents from snow states make up a large percentage of DFW.