Preparation and pretreatment are already underway at the Fort Worth Transportation and Public Works Department. Massive quantities of sand are being prepared and loaded.
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TxDOT continues its pretreatment plans for major roadways and streets surrounding hospitals and other emergency facilities across the Metroplex.
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The Fort Worth Transportation and Public Works Department says it has crews on standby for the next few days. Beginning Thursday, it will begin treating roads in a 24-hour rotation with 12-hour shifts.
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The Dallas TxDOT District says it will implement its “emergency plan” on Wednesday, treating roads around the clock, 24/7.
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The city of Dallas plans to hold a news conference Tuesday to discuss emergency operation plans.
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TxDOT continues its pretreatment plans for major roadways and streets surrounding hospitals and other emergency facilities across the Metroplex.
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The Fort Worth Transportation and Public Works Department says it has crews on standby for the next few days. Beginning Thursday, it will begin treating roads in a 24-hour rotation with 12-hour shifts.
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The Dallas TxDOT District says it will implement its “emergency plan” on Wednesday, treating roads around the clock, 24/7.
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The city of Dallas plans to hold a news conference Tuesday to discuss emergency operation plans.
FORT WORTH, Texas—TxDOT is still pretreating major highways and other busy arteries throughout the DFW Metroplex, with bridges and overpasses receiving the most attention.
Keeping roadways passable around hospitals and other emergency facilities is a top responsibility for both Dallas and Fort Worth.
Over 700 TxDOT employees spent the weekend pretreating roads, bridges, and overpasses with more than 500,000 gallons of brine and almost 800 cubic yards of granular material in anticipation of winter weather.
Winter Preps in Fort Worth
Trucks were already moving throughout Fort Worth on Monday afternoon. Since emergency vehicles are likely to travel through the streets and entrances close to hospitals, the city’s medical area is given top importance.
Preparation and pretreatment are underway at the Fort Worth Transportation and Public Works Department. Massive quantities of sand are being prepared and loaded.
“We will have crews on standby for Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday,” stated Teanna Thompson, who works for the city’s public works department. “We will begin a 24-hour rotation on Thursday. Consequently, our crews will work 12-hour shifts.
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When the surface temperature falls below freezing, the purpose of the sand-salt mixture is to prevent ice from forming.
According to Thompson, “Brine, we have to do at least 48 hours in advance,” “We are doing our critical hills, our hospitals, our emergency entrances and our emergency overflow shelters.”
Prioritizing shelters in advance of the winter storm is another way to get people inside and away from the bitter cold.
“This situation doesn’t come around in Texas a lot,” executive director Gary Wilkerson of When We Love stated. “But when it arrives, it is very dangerous, and it has to be taken seriously.”
In Fort Worth, Wilkerson’s non-profit offers an emergency overflow shelter. When all of the city’s permanent shelter space is occupied, it is prepared for usage.
Residents in Colleyville are receiving firewood as the metroplex prepares for winter storms. North Texans are getting ready for the cold weather and potential snowstorm in the following ways:
“We partner with the city of Fort Worth and the Tarrant County Homeless Coalition to make sure people have a safe, warm place to lay their head at night,” Wilkerson stated. “It s a very dangerous situation, and we recommend everybody that s on the street that doesn t have a safe place to go, that they come to our building here at 1100 East Lancaster and let us get them into the shelter.”
For information on available shelter beds and other city services, residents of Fort Worth can dial 311.
Click here for further Fort Worth winter weather resources.
Preparing Dallas Roads
Over 700 TxDOT employees spent the weekend pretreating roads, bridges, and overpasses with more than 500,000 gallons of brine and almost 800 cubic yards of granular material in anticipation of winter weather.
On Monday, the Dallas TxDOT District, which includes the counties of Dallas, Collin, Denton, Ellis, Kaufman, Rockwall, and Navarro, started putting brine down on major thoroughfares.
“Weather events like this are somewhat unpredictable,” TxDOT Dallas District’s Tony Hartzel said. “So we have a host of different options and equipment we can use.”
It claims that on Wednesday, it would carry out its “emergency plan,” which calls for treating roads continuously.
There is a good probability of a wintry combination, primarily snow, on Thursday.
“We re gonna have more than 400 people working this event until it s over,” Hartzel stated. “And they ll be working in 12-hour shifts.”
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The Dallas District claims to have 20 snowplow blades that it will put on dump trucks to aid with road clearance and an equal number of “maintainers” to scrape the tops of roads.
According to Hartzel, “We’ll have enough equipment,” “And if we need more, we can always get more.”
TxDOT will not pay much attention to secondary roads, such as FM roads and less-traveled state highways.
“If it s snowing and raining and or freezing rain, everybody needs to slow down, take your time and assume that there is ice on the roadway,” warned Hartzel.
The emergency operating plans for the city of Dallas, which manages surface streets off of the highways, are still being finalized. There will be a press conference.
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The Dallas TxDOT District, the city of Dallas, and the Fort Worth Transportation and Public Works Department provided the information for this article.
The Dallas TxDOT District, the city of Dallas, and the Fort Worth Transportation and Public Works Department provided the information for this article.
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