Monitoring Tropical Storm Nicholas

Announcement Number: CN2021-59
Categories: General Announcements
Posted Date: September 13, 2021

To Our Customers,

Tropical Storm Nicholas is expected to make landfall across the South Texas coast today and is expected to make a path through Houston and southwest Louisiana over the next few days. We are monitoring conditions and have already taken steps to ensure potential outages are addressed as quickly as possible, including:

  • Staging ballast and generators at strategic locations
  • Having private contractors on call to support network outages
  • Positioning track inspectors ahead of trains following flash flooding events

Plans are also in place to suspend local operations temporarily at the Settegast and Englewood intermodal ramps in the Houston area effective at 18:00 CDT this evening until tomorrow morning, Tuesday, September 14, 2021, at 09:00 CDT.

To ensure you are properly prepared for the upcoming storm, please visit our Hurricane Planning and Recovery page, which outlines best practices to follow during the hurricane season.

We will provide updates as this weather system progresses. If you have any questions, please contact Customer Care & Support at 800-272-8777 or your Union Pacific representative.