Matt Largy

The roads here are still coated in a layer of ice.

This is a big problem for a part of the country that's not used to dealing with winter weather.

Roads have been pretty deserted as many businesses closed or cut back their hours because of the weather.

Many school districts have already canceled classes for Monday.

Thousands of flights in and out of Texas and much of the U.S.

have been delayed or canceled.

At least one person in Austin died from exposure overnight Saturday.

While there were some local power outages, the state did not see a repeat of the deadly 2021 winter storm that knocked out power to millions.

Temperatures are expected to stay below freezing here until sometime late Monday.

For NPR News, I'm Matt Largy in Austin.

There's just this feeling that the city is being pushed to the brink and could descend into destructive riots at any moment, at any provocation.

Everyone remembers the damage caused by the protests over the murder of George Floyd in 2020.

And that's kind of the fear is that if ICE keeps doing these raids, people will feel like the only way to be heard is by escalating these protests into something less peaceful.

The roads here are still coated in a layer of ice.

This is a big problem for a part of the country that's not used to dealing with winter weather.

Roads have been pretty deserted as many businesses closed or cut back their hours because of the weather.

Many school districts have already canceled classes for Monday.

Thousands of flights in and out of Texas and much of the U.S.

have been delayed or canceled.

At least one person in Austin died from exposure overnight Saturday.