Dangerous back-to-back winter storm systems threaten lives, livestock, property
Cold air poured south into the U.S. this week, as arctic high pressure stretched from Canada all the way across the border into northern Mexico. Bone-chilling, pipe-bursting temperatures—averaging 40-50 degrees below normal for a huge swath of the country—brought widespread misery on a scale rarely before seen in Texas, where all 254 counties were placed under a disaster declaration last Friday…