HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — On a day when conditions were deemed too treacherous to open schools or government offices, they didn’t keep Rockets fans from lining up for hours outside the Toyota Center to score a free bobblehead.
“I’m trying to collect all of them, so like yeah, that’s what’s getting me here,” Moises Garcia said.
Icy roads were largely non-existent by mid-afternoon. But there were noticeably fewer people traveling on them.
Eyewitness News found traffic flowing on the West Loop around 5 p.m. Monday, when it’s normally packed.
For those willing to brave the cold, the sunshine came as an added bonus.
“If you see people from like the North, it’s like swimming weather for them, you know,” Andrew Zavala said as he was walking his dog in Discovery Green Park.
In Montrose, many shops and restaurants were packed as Houstonians took advantage of the day off work.
As predicted, electricity supplies more than kept pace with demand, and ice brought down very few power lines. CenterPoint reports just 1% of its customers lost power.
“The amount of people that were at the grocery stores fighting each other, I feel like that was a bit too dramatic. Let’s be honest,” Daanhia Ortiz said.
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