This is Commissioner ████████████. Press 2 to opt out of future pre recorded calls from us. Right now, we're hosting a telephone town hall to update Harris county residents. On the expected Arctic weather event. Provide vital information and answer your questions. This is your opportunity to hear from ███████████ with the Harris County Flood Control and ████████████ with the Office of Emergency Management. To participate in this live Kelly Town hall event. Simply remain on the line and you will be connected. Again. This is ████████████. Hope you stay on the line and join us. If you have any questions, call us at ████████████. You are joining a live conference already in progress. Please be aware that your local phone company may leave your line open for up to ██ seconds after you leave the conference. If you would like to ask the speaker a question, please press zero. Impacts of storms and weather events of all varieties. It lets us know what's next. ████, I want to welcome you. And anything you want to say, we have background. So I don't have to read it. Feel free to do it so they know you know what you're talking about. Yeah, we've been here for a long time. We've been doing this. I've been doing this for ██ years in Harris County. So we've been through a lot. We've seen a lot of hurricanes. We've seen a lot of floods, and recently we've seen a lot of winter storms, and as a matter of fact, one year ago today, it's Node. But this one's going to be different. So we're going to have to get into the details of what's coming up here in just a minute. I've just got a couple questions. Give us some sense of what you anticipate this weekend. We know things can change. I can't remember how much notice we had that snow was coming. We had a pretty good forecast for the snow. It was pretty. We had everything shut down. The good news is it came on an awful weekend, so that helps. And this will help, too. This will be a weekend event, so that really helps with closures and stuff like that. But we are going to be dealing with a very significant winter storm here across █████ and really the entire southern █████████████ as we get into this weekend. And so the cold front is going to come through as we get into Friday evening. So you have all day tomorrow Thursday, and you have pretty much all day Friday to make those necessary preparations. We need to winterize and make sure that that critical infrastructure is protected for the cold that's coming in. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to break this down into two parts. We're going to do the cold first. And then we'll talk about the potential for winter precipitation. And so we're pretty confident that we're going to see a very significant cold air mass with this. And so we're talking about falling below freezing sometime Saturday afternoon or evening in the central and southern southeastern parts of █████████████, maybe a little bit sooner. A little bit up toward the north, if you're in the █████████████████████████████████████████████ area, could be a little bit earlier than that. And then falling below freezing and then staying below freezing. Probably for anywhere from ██ to ██ hours. So we're not anticipating getting above freezing on Sunday. And it's going to get pretty cold Saturday night. Sunday morning, we're talking Lowe's getting down into the mid-20s. Maybe even a little bit colder off north and west. and so that's when we start to worry about the infrastructure when we get cold for a long duration and we're not able to warm up during the day that's when you can start having issues potentially with your pipes and your sprinkler systems and even pipes in your interior walls we can start having issues with and so we got to pay attention to that as we get into sunday and then as we get into sunday night monday it gets even colder we're looking at potentially getting down into the low twenty twenty maybe even an upper teens in the ████████ nineteen certainly on the table here up north and west