NEWSTALK 860 » texas weather http://ksfa860.com Fri, 24 May 2013 19:59:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Weather Closings, Cancellations and Delays http://ksfa860.com/weather-closings-cancellations-and-delays/ http://ksfa860.com/weather-closings-cancellations-and-delays/#comments Fri, 04 Feb 2011 12:40:14 +0000 Jim Bell http://ksfa860.com/?p=1474 Due to freezing temperatures and rain, there's a sheet of ice on many roads, streets, bridges and overpasses in and around Lufkin and Nacogdoches, a number of schools and other agencies are closed today.  If there is any good news in this, it's that there probably won't be any rolling power blackouts today. ERCOT - the Electricity Reliability Council of Texas - is, however, urging people to set their thermostats as low as they can to conserve power.

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