As winter storm brews, Texas shoppers scramble to stock up on food, supplies

It will be cold with periods of snow and sleet in Dallas today. Between 2 and 4 inches of snow is expected with a high of 36 and a low of 32. The snow will continue overnight and linger into Friday morning; With forecasts calling for a mixture of snow and sleet, shoppers scrambled this week to stock up on food and winter-weather supplies like outdoor faucet covers, firewood and portable generators. In some stores, they found picked-over produce and nearly bare shelves. At a Whole Foods in Fort Worth, delivery trucks were delayed due to winter weather elsewhere. A cashier at a Kroger in Dallas’ Oak Lawn neighborhood said they were restocking the shelves as quickly as possible; airlines and airports are doing their best to prepare for the wintry weather. Airports are pretreating and clearing the tarmac, runways, driving lanes and pedestrian walkways. DFW Airport and Dallas Love Field have taken steps in advance of the storm. A Love Field spokesperson said the airport has four snow plows, a tanker and two trailers to disperse over 40,000 available gallons of liquid deicer, and dump trucks to spread over 166,000 available pounds of solid deicer. In other news, Texas lawmakers vowed Tuesday to hold Big Tech accountable for failing to protect minors from harm on social media, including exposure to pornography and sex trafficking. And three Dallas-based firms are partnering to develop a $1 billion data center campus south of Dallas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices