{"id":138360,"date":"2026-01-26T12:59:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T12:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/138360\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T12:59:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T12:59:17","slug":"city-streets-whitened-as-central-texas-gripped-by-extreme-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/138360\/","title":{"rendered":"City Streets Whitened as Central Texas Gripped by Extreme Cold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The streets of Belton, Texas, were left whitened as \u201cextreme cold\u201d gripped north and central Texas on January 25, the National Weather Service (NWS) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSFortWorth\/status\/2015481626747105718\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:reported;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage here was captured by Adam Cuker, and shows cars navigating the streets of Belton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Texas officials <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TDEM\/status\/2015409951200407789\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">said<\/a> there were thousands of icy roads by Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cLife-threatening cold\u201d was expected through Monday, the NWS <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSFortWorth\/status\/2015042902339080430\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">said<\/a>. Credit: Adam Cuker via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The streets of Belton, Texas, were left whitened as \u201cextreme cold\u201d gripped north and central Texas on January&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[58523,58522,2143,57511,1971,27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-138360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-adam-cuker","9":"tag-belton","10":"tag-central-texas","11":"tag-extreme-cold","12":"tag-national-weather-service","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-texas-headlines","15":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}