More than 99% of CenterPoint Energy's Houston-area customers maintained power through the freeze, and ERCOT didn't order rolling outages.

The latest forecasts show five consecutive days of rain possible from North Texas to the Texas Coast, including Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin, Houston, and San Antonio. However, the National Weather Service office in Dallas-Fort Worth warns that "no single day will be a complete washo ut."

The University of Houston will resume operations Thursday after a historic snowfall, with some parts of Houston seeing up to 5 inches, as well as ice. The university will reopen per a Tuesday announcement. Alief ISD will also reopen with its school board meeting rescheduled for that day, per its initial announcement.

Bishop Joe S. Vásquez has been appointed the Archbishop of Galveston-Houston, replacing retiring Cardinal Daniel DiNardo. Pope Francis appointed Vásquez on Monday after he was appointed the fifth Bishop of Austin in 2010. Vásquez had been a priest for more than 40 years before being ordained a bishop in 2002.

This winter's harshest arctic blast so far is coursing through Texas as the state is the worst in the world for flight cancellations.

After many Texas schools and colleges closed Tuesday due to winter weather, several have extended closures through Wednesday.

Austin-Bergstrom International Airport is open but travelers are facing delays, canceled flights and non-existent parking trams due to overnight snow and ice.

The highest snow totals occurred across far Southeast Texas, near Beaumont. But many other Texas cities also saw accumulating snow.

Houston students are spending the snowiest day since 1973 building makeshift sleds, throwing snowballs and maybe blowing up snowmen with fireworks.

An ABC 13 reporter and the channel's spokesperson will be moving to Los Angeles to work for sister station ABC7/KABC-TV.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A rare frigid storm charged through Texas and the northern Gulf Coast on Tuesday, blanketing New Orleans and Houston with snow that closed highways, grounded nearly all flights and canceled school for more than a million students more accustomed to hurricane dismissals than snow days.