Bowie County including Texarkana were both hit particularly hard by winter storms that passed through East Texas last night. More than 16,000 people were reportedly without power in Texarkana, that’s more than half of the power outages reported throughout all of East Texas this morning.

The Arctic blast that is hitting the U.S. will sweep through parts of Texas with one forecaster predicting large snowfalls, and a map by Newsweek shows the hardest hit areas. A forecast shows "significant snow" across the southeast of the Lone Star State in the coming days,