So if I'm supposed to drive to Fort Worth tomorrow night and come back Sunday night, am I looking at not realistically driving back until Monday night or Tuesday? It looked like ice and sleet in north Texas.
In all seriousness, if you don't have to, don't. I've driven from Waco to Tulsa in a bad ice storm. Thankfully the road I stayed on was flat and didn't curve much. I also drove in one from Arlington, TX to Tulsa. Even worse. I'm lucky I grew up in a place that got lots of snow and ice and we learned how to drive in it (we also had road crews that understood how to treat and plow the roads properly so the inconvenience was pretty minimal. Snow is much easier to drive in than the pure ice. All wheel/4 wheel drive is better if you have it (my Subaru does great in those conditions).
If you must go, buy yourself some ice melt/sand/cat litter to keep in your car as well as get some of the windshield washer fluid that has the de-icer in it. Worst part of driving in active ice storms is the ice caking on your windshield and your wipers being useless because they too have the layer of ice on them. Also, and I know this is a PIA, clear the ice/snow off the roof of your car. Sheets of ice flying off of one car and smashing into the car behind it have caused many an accident.
To Weatherdemon's post...if we stay below freezing until at least Tuesday, everything will be closed/canceled through Wednesday. While city crews may get to clearing highways and main streets like Memorial and all the #1st streets, neighborhood streets will be impassable until the natural melt occurs.
Also, do you have a prediction on snowfall amounts? I've seen anywhere between 3" and 14" and the latest trends seem to point to closer to the latter from the meteorologists I follow online. US model and Euro models are drastically different in this regard. Euro model is predicting a bomb of snow dropped from central Arkansas to central/south central OK with smaller amounts north of that line and a shift to ice south of the OK/TX border.
