So I'm in Dallas in an ice storm, watching the local news to keep up with flight status. And the newest ice-related incident is live footage of a semi truck jack-knifing and catching fire and slamming into a media van. Ugly, but all drivers appear to have escaped without major harm.

But the news lady just added new information: the burning truck is full of UPS packages, and burned at least five minutes before any firefighters arrived.

If you've sent any Christmas presents via UPS, you might want to go to their tracking page and see if your package was passing through Dallas. If it was, you may not be done with your holiday shopping after all.

Fire now looks to be under control now, but some packages are gonna be toast.

Update: And the amazing story of the day is that so far, despite numerous accidents all over the area, there are no fatalities anywhere in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. May they continue to be so fortunate.

Update 2: What a different world. Someone from the road commission is on TV explaining road salt to all the viewers. In Michigan, that's kind of like explaining air: if you're alive, you know about it.