SEE IT: Texans slowed by snow as Arkansas drivers just across border cruise down plowed street

Talk about a tale of two cities, with the same name and along the same roadway.

Twin cities in Texas and Arkansas, both named Texarkana, fared very differently in the freezing and snowy weather in the South this week.

Drone footage of drivers on the Texarkana border, which shows cars on one side driving on a clear road in one direction and vehicles on the other side gliding on a snowy path in the opposite direction, illustrates how badly the Lone Star State is struggling to deal with brutal winter weather, which has crippled Texas in recent days.

Storm chaser Charles Peek posted video and photos, and the Twitter universe piled on to note the differences between how Arkansas and Texas are functioning in the face of a natural disaster. Weather Channel meteorologist Mike Seidel was one of many to point out the disparity.

“Can you guess what state has snow plows?” he tweeted Tuesday. “It’s the AR side of State Line Ave. that’s clear. The TX side is #snow covered. Another 6-8″ falls late tonight into Wed. from Winter Storm #Viola.”

The Weather Channel has been providing live coverage from the Texas-Arkansas border.

CNN contributor, podcaster and University of Texas Law School professor Steve Vladeck posted the same video and surmised Texas is “a state that apparently has better things to do that to take winter seriously.”

Vladeck blamed state leadership for a failure to address what he’s calling the “biggest crisis in Texas in decades.”

“Governor Abbott: Went on Fox to (wrongly) blame green energy,” he tweeted Thursday. “Lt. Gov. Patrick & AG Paxton: Unusually quiet compared to the press releases that usually accompany their culture wars.”

Vladeck accused Senator Ted Cruz, who is vacationing to Mexico, of “(Running) away to Cancun.”

Cruz, who left town Wednesday, then made plans to return Thursday.

Beto O’Rourke, who narrowly lost his 2018 senate race with Cruz, tweeted Thursday that he and other activists had called more than 150,000 senior citizens in the frozen state to see how they were holding up.

“One of our vols talked to a man stranded at home w/out power in Killeen, hadn’t eaten in 2 days, got him a ride to a warming center and a hot meal,” he tweeted, asking for volunteers to join his efforts.

Gov. Greg Abbot tweeted Wednesday night that 1.6 million homes in Texas had regained power Thursday and, “Current power generation is restoring an additional 200,000 homes every hour.”