So, what are we about to do right now? We're actually going to go outside
and see this Texas winter storm for ourselves.
So the reason I'm making this video is because you may have heard in the news, but Texas is
kind of falling apart and I kind of live here. So here in South Texas, it gets cold in the
winter relatively, but it doesn't get frigid. And it never really snows enough to notice.
Unfortunately, there's a winter storm named a Uri. It's sweeping across the nation and
it's ravaging Texas right now. It left us covered under this blanket of icy snow that we have never
experienced before. And I'm actually going to get out of this chair and show you. Because we
don't have the infrastructure to deal with weather this capacity, we are dealing with power outages,
the city's actually shutting off our power. People are slipping and dying on the ice because
they are just completely not used to that. People since they don't have power or water,
they're trying to keep themselves warm by doing dangerous things.
And some people have wound up poisoned because of it. It's very bad stuff. And to top it all off,
the entire city, at least the one I'm in, Texas as a state is shut down. Now, as you may have
noticed, my lights actually are still on. I still have power. This beautifully lit room,
it's not all coming from my soul. I am in fact in front of studio lights here,
but based off of things my friends who live in the same city have told me, it seems like a fluke,
almost that I haven't experienced any problems. Part of the reason I wanted to make this video
is I was getting a lot of questions about whether or not I was okay, understandably, because this is
causing fatalities and I'm fortunate enough to be perfectly fine. And I really do appreciate that.
I think the main way this is affecting me is because of the pandemic, I was
very much focused on ordering things from day to day. I don't just run to the store and pick up
groceries nowadays. So it didn't have much food in the house. And then all delivery services
are just Thanos snapped into the wind until the weather gets fixed. So I've been eating
very interesting things. I think yesterday I had granola waffles and pizza as like one meal.
But thankfully I'm just lucky enough to still have running water. I still have electricity.
There's definitely enough food in here, weird as it is that I'm going to be fine until this
is all over. But I still recognize I am on the lighter side of the problems is
causing for everyone. Houston faces dire water issues as power outages and cold push Texans to
their limits. Austin officials say to conserve water and power to help stabilize resources,
millions are still without power as winter storms continue. And I want you to realize this is from
10 minutes ago. So very much ongoing. Since this is the first time I'm really like
in one of the stories that I'm making a video about, I'm just going to go ahead and show you.
Hopefully my phone picks it up. Our entire ground is covered in this thin sheet of ice. Look, it's
not only the ice that you can see on the ground, the obvious ice. It's all like this.
Even this right here is slippery. I actually fell. It was right over here. And I fell and hit
my hand. Oh, and you can see it too, right there on my palm. It honestly would not be a problem
if the snow itself wasn't getting so icy. I'm fine if I slip and fall and hurt my wrist a little bit,
but people are actually dying. Last time I walked across this, it was just nothing but snow. Now,
a lot of it is melted away, but it doesn't make us feel any better because we still don't have
power. It's just not fun anymore. I'm fortunate enough to have a warm jacket already. The people
who don't have winter gear or homes, they're on the streets and it got down to 17 degrees.
At least in other places, these people have the appropriate attire. This came out of virtually
nowhere and nobody was prepared for this. This morning I woke up and read that a mayor
here in one of the mini cities in Texas posted this Facebook. He was basically saying,
"You're just lazy if you don't know how to deal with the cold. And it's the way you were raised
and it's not the city's job to save you." He was literally out there saying that.
People are dying by the way. I felt bad for making a joke, a literal Twitter
joke that I went back and apologize for it. Somehow he didn't feel bad for saying that people
don't deserve help during this time. It's the lack of empathy for me. My glasses are fogging
up so hard. I can't really see what I'm doing but hopefully I look good. That's a joke. I already
know I look good. Y'all ever played Persona Four? Remember that one part towards the end
of the game where things get super foggy? Yeah, that's intimately the vibe. Actually, you know
what? I'm going to overlay that Persona Four music over what's happening right now. I hate it here.
I went ahead and took my glasses off because they're obviously just getting so dark and foggy
that I physically cannot see. It all seems like fun and games, but when you think about the
amount of property damage that could actually be happening here, just because people are completely
unused to dealing with this. It's insane. Yeah that's what all of the snow looked like
the first day I was out here. Please don't think about it as, "Oh, it's not that much snow." Or,
"I get more than that where I'm from." Please just think about it as something that
you had never experienced before. It's not really your job to be prepared first of all,
in 15 degree weather and it just gets dropped on you and then everything shuts down. Your
power goes out. You can't order anything. That is what we were dealing with here in Texas.
Have you ever really seen anything here that would make you have to shovel the yard before?
No. Not even once, right?
At least not in 10 years. No, I've never.
I'm actually an investigative reporter. There was actually a third person out there that I
wanted to ask, but honestly, they looked kind of terrifying and maybe I shouldn't have made that
snap judgment, but you just, you never know in these streets. I know they weren't wearing masks,
but they were literally standing in the driveway by themselves. Don't worry. I was far enough away.
I'll just boost the audio so you guys can actually hear them. Okay, so I've finally gotten to where
I've been trying to get this entire time. For reference, here's me standing here. So
there's this enormous, enormous, sunken part here in the neighborhood that I walk past a lot.
And this whole thing was like a ball of snow. And I will insert the picture so you could
see how much we're really dealing with here in Texas. This is all just weird water now,
but I'll insert pictures where you can see it was nothing but ice. There were little kids running
around here, by the way. Here's another one where it looks relatively harmless. It's not that much
snow, but then I go ahead and insert the picture so you can see how it was the first time I walked
past it. Even though the snow is melting, we still have to deal with the ramifications from
that. Anyway, I'm going to go back home now because I'm honestly frigid. I don't actually
own... What do you even call, gloves? Mittens? The things that Bernie Sanders wore in that one meme.
No, I'm just kidding. I know that they're called hand shoes. But I'm going to go
back home, try to edit this altogether. And if y'all, can't hear the audio over
this wind noise or whatever, y'all better turn that up. I'm just kidding. I'll fix it in post.
I don't have gear for recording outside, because I've never really done it, but I
can do it more if you guys liked this, if it's not 15 degrees outside. Vloggers really be out here,
vlogging and driving at the same time because your Tesla autopilots or whatever excuse you made
for endangering the lives of everyone else on the road. I be out here vlogging and walking on
ice without proper gear at the same time. So if anybody's going to be a casualty of the situation,
it's moi. I'm honestly too conceited to get anyone else killed. If I'm going to bite the dust,
that's going to be my cloud. Those icicles are just hanging out under my car right now.
And that's scary enough. I don't want to even want to think about what the road looks like.
I don't know if that's supposed to be like that, but I just have a feeling it's not...
Kind of looks like legs though. So I mean, since our government's kind of trash,
the people who are doing the actual work as usual are volunteers and charities. But right now, SARAH
aka the South Alamo Regional Alliance for the Homeless has kicked into overdrive. Because again,
there are homeless people out there in 15 degree weather without proper gear. I just
want to make sure at least people have enough to do what they need to take care of. So, I mean,
there's that. It's not the most ever, but I am fine. I think if everyone who is fine,
helps out everyone who is not fine at the moment, things will be a lot better than if we just
all act like that mayor and just claim everyone should be fending for themselves
in an unprecedented weather situation. I just think that just made me really sad,
honestly. But yeah, it's not like the most fun video in the entire world, but
as I'm sure you noticed, we're not having the most fun in the entire world and it's like that
sometimes. Anyway, I'll be here all week folks at 2:00 PM central time. If it's Monday, Wednesday,
Friday, that means I'm uploading a new video here. If it's Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday,
that means I'm going live over on Twitch. So basically what I'm saying is I'll see you
tomorrow. Unless of course tomorrow is Sunday in which case just watch this video again. Okay bye.