Arlington city crews are taking precautions ahead of possible winter weather expected to arrive before the Cotton Bowl game on Friday.
With just 36 hours to go before winter weather arrives and another day before Cotton Bowl fans descend on AT&T Stadium, the city of Arlington brine trucks prepped bridges in the entertainment district. 'The unknown’s kind of hard. We don’t know if we’re getting snow, ice, how much, in preparation for snow we’re looking at having a couple of snowplows and a motor grader to help with that,’ said Field Operations Supervisor DJ Ryals.
Ryals said city crews first brined highways, including I-20, I-30, State Highway 360 and U.S. 287, before moving to the area around AT&T Stadium where the University of Texas will take on Ohio State Friday night. 'We’re pretty much treating it as what we usually do, business as usual, just trying to keep everyone safe to get here to the game Friday in and out,’ he said.It’s not the first time mother nature threatened a sporting event that put North Texas on a national stage. In 2011, ice and snow wreaked havoc on North Texas roads as Arlington prepared to host the Super Bowl. Ahead of the game, six people were injured when melting ice and snow fell from the roof of AT&T Stadium.Tuesday, they told NBC5 that after the Super Bowl, a system to pump warm water onto the roof was added to prevent snow and ice from building up and a guard was installed to block it from sliding.More than a decade later, Cotton Bowl officials are hoping weather will play less of an impact. They issued a statement late Tuesday: 'We continue to monitor weather reports, and over the last 24 hours, the forecast for later this week has improved according to the National Weather Service. We have been meeting routinely with city officials, the Director of Transportation for North Texas and the College Football Playoff. Should the forecast shift, we are prepared for all the contingencies. North Texas highways are already being brined and plans are in place to assure a safe environment for everyone in and around AT&T Stadium on game day.'
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