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- (Hallease) Late into the night on February 14th, the snow began to fall.
It was exciting and wonderful.
And then 4 million Texans lost power, and roughly 1.4 million Texans lost water.
This vlog will be somewhat lighthearted because I faired well.
My complex seems to share power with a local hospital, but rest assured, even now as the
snow has long melted and we're experiencing days in the low 80s, Texans are still struggling.
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As you can see.
It's snowing here in San Antonio, Texas.
Um ... Don't know (laughs).
Don't know how I feel about this.
This is now the second snow, actually.
I didn't film the first snow.
This is the second one.
It's snowed on Monday.
We got anywhere from 2 to 6 inches.
Now, today's Thursday, and it is now snowing again.
We already have it looks like about an inch, inch and a half in record time.
So, interesting time to be alive.
Experiencing ... what do they keep calling these?
Hundred year storms, hundred year incidences.
How many have we lived through of these so far?
How many hundred year incidences have we lived through?
I think this makes number 5, number 6.
Poochie and I are surviving, thriving.
Poochie seems to really enjoy the snow.
Her coat has use now.
She's just living it up.
She's just doing Poochie things.
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- (Domenica Davis - from laptop weather report) We have a severe weather threat and flood
threat for southeast over the next couple of days.
The Mid-Atlantic and northeast, they're looking at snow and ice in the forecast.
It will be heavy rain for parts of the southeast.
So, we're talking from northern Florida all the way through southern Virginia, we are
going to have heavy rain.
And for a lot of you, it has started this morning.
So, you are going to see bouts of heavy rain over the next couple of days.
Now, we could have some strong to severe -
- (Mr. Hallease) Yeah.
So, it's everywhere.
It's just flooding.
Flooding everywhere.
- I just can't over how much there is.
It's basically as if we live in the midwest.
This is kind of an interesting gauge though for me, I guess.
Of like, "Oh!
Could I handle it being like this for ... I don't know, four, five months I guess?"
What do you ... it's like-
- Three to four months.
- It's 38 and rainy in Vancouver.
- You know.
We keep ... well, at least I keep talking about leaving Texas potentially.
And I know you keep mentioning Canada.
So, it's like, "Oh, okay.
It'd be like this for I think up there it'd be more like 6 months.
- Yeah.
What Vancouver is experiencing now is the same as what they're gonna experience a week
from now.
So, it's like high of 40-something.
Low of 37.
- I don't know if I could do it, 'cause I like being outside.
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- I know I looks dumb, but it's so warm.
- You don't look dumb.
You think you look dumb?
- With the sweater ...
- You're just tryna stay warm.
- Film myself.
- The snow is so sticky.
- The snow is so what-y?
- Sticky.
- Ah!
Ah!!
- Oh!
- Ah!
(Laughs) Oh, I was on the bottom of the thing.
- Yep.
- Oh.
We're in a winter wonderland.
We're currently at The Pearl.
We left to get provisions.
Sweet, sweet provisions.
- By provisions you mean?
- By provisions I mean ... wine.
(Laughing) We left to get wine.
(Laughs)
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- Alright.
So, Mr. Hallease concocted a system to filter our water.
- It's just coffee filters.
- Which is a combination of boiling for two minutes, right?
It's got to get up to a rapid boil for two minutes.
- One minute.
- One minute?
Oh, just kidding.
One minute, and then after that he filters it through a coffee filter because we have
hard water here in Texas.
At least in San Antonio anyway.
So, here's a close up of the sediment.
There it go.
So, that's the sediment this stuff right here is the sediment that he got out of the water
by doing his double filter boil method.
(Laughs)
- Yeah, and surprisingly in tastes like garbage.
When it's in the water it tastes like garbage.
- Yeah.
It does.
- Or maybe unsurprisingly.
- I think it's unsurprisingly.
Surviving, thriving, water boil notices.
This is the life we live now.
New normals.
Yeah, this time has been really interesting because it's had both of us thinking about
this idea of what is a developed country, or a developed place?
You know?
Apparently, our grid here in Texas is not very developed.
Basically, we ... I don't know.
I've been thinking a lot about ... I feel like I've always been really proud to be from
Texas, even if all of our flaws.
You know what I mean?
I still feel like Texas is an interesting place.
There's some bootstrap mentality, or whatever, that I guess I subconsciously and consciously
subscribe to.
But ... Iono y'all.
I've been thinkin' bout balancing a lot.
But we've also realized, can we do Canada?
This is cold!
- It's too cold.
- This is too cold!
I think it needs to be tropical.
Tropical adjacent.
I've been thinking about moving to Hawaii, but then you gotta deal with Tsunamis and
hurricanes probably.
You know?
It's a give and take.
We're doing some good old-fashioned ingenuity down here in old "Tay-hass."
- I mean, we didn't lose power.
We had internet the whole time.
- We didn't.
We didn't lose power.
We haven't lost internet.
- We lost water for ...
- Half a day.
- Yeah, like six hours.
- It wasn't too bad.
- Freaked out for a little bit and then it got better.
- We had already prepped, though.
We had made sure that we had a tub of water so we could still flush the toilet.
So ...
- But we were not above using the pool water.
- We were not, we considered that.
Aw, man!
The water keeps going out and we don't get a chance to refill the tub again, the pool
for our complex is right down the way and we would just ...
- I forgot about the river.
- Oh, right.
We could just pool water from the river, too.
We're very close to the riverwalk.
- People were already doing that.
- Oh, were they?
- Yeah.
- That makes a lot of sense.
- And downtown hotels, they were doing that.
- That makes a lot of sense.
Yeah.
Most people were just taking the snow and melting it at home.
They would just shovel it into a bucket and just bring it in and let it melt.
They were using that.
So.
It's a mess, bruh.