Dallas Coated in Ice Ahead of Super Bowl

Wednesday, 02 February 2011 | by Pat's Picks

Not even Texas is immune to Mother Nature’s whims. Super Bowl visitors from Pittsburgh and Wisconsin felt right at home after the Dallas-Fort Worth area was coated in ice yesterday, says the Morning News, creating a mess at local airports and stopping the local transit system in its tracks for the first time ever. Authorities say the roads leading to Cowboy Stadium are a mess; hundreds of accidents were reported yesterday. Organizers for the big game are hoping meteorologists are right and that this weekend will bring with it 50-degree temperatures.

To get a sense of how bad the roads are, check out this AP report. About halfway you see an SUV careening from one side of the highway to the other: