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- During one of the widest-spread weather crisis in Texas history, Austinites are banding together via an all-volunteer mutual aid organization to provide each other what state and local government has not.
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The community out helping each other and the oil corporations celebrating their monetary gains. That's capitalism for you. Where are the rich? In cancun? Hawaii?
The elites only care about themselves
Iv seen people say " that's not capitalism " it's absolutely capitalism to see a supply an demand people pay whatever you want. My friends stuck with an 8k power bill so far :/
@@anarchyanna 8k! This is racketeering. Sad for your friend because they may not have voted for people against the national grid. This is what a succession mindset gets a state.
And all the people that work for oil companies that still have good jobs no more of that ... I guess we freeze now and rely off solar panels
@@cupwalker24.7 Green energy is creating way more jobs. Oils going the way of coal. It gets windy in Texas 😅 an its sunny a lot too
I live in central Texas and the power companies deliberately disconnected my neighborhood from the power grid. We have pictures on our community Facebook page. Not once did the power come back on during this ordeal. For 96 hours we were left to freeze
Pville?
Got the corporate bastards out of office.
They had to to keep the stations from blowing up from strain. It's unfortunate, but they had to do it; the worst part is it was completely avoidable, and they all knew it. You need to focus your anger on the politicians and ERCOT's leaders that bribed them into avoiding winterizing.
It strike me odd, a foreign, watching from the East that...Merica, the world richest, where only middle class volunteers actually helps the common people, meanwhile the richest...doesn't help.
Not only do the Rich not help, they try to criminalize helping the Poor.
@@Gala-yp8nx Capitalise on the poor.
Speaking of which, a vile of Insulin cost less than $5 USD in VN, that those are not fake.
@@Huy-G-Le I get it but it happened cuz Texas wanted to deregulate back in the 80s and didn't connect a power grid to the rest of the United States East and West power grid
Yep, that's what you get when elected politicians cut taxes and regulations due to bribery from the rich and global megacorporations.
"America is a 3rd world country in a Gucci belt."
When you are forced to absorb the Third World for a hundred years that tends to happen.
@@The_Osprey your own stupidiťy leads to you there or greed?
@@The_Osprey you're real cute, standing on peoples' necks while blaming them for not being able to stand up.
It so good to see people helping one another
And at the same time don’t forget the officials that let the people down
@@joshuaemerson3462 Exactly.
I love in Austin. Believe me when I say, they hyped this up as if all of Austin was panicking.
The lady on the mic was fear mongering and it isn’t close.
Cancun Cruz went on vacation instead of volunteering during the snowstorm.
The whole outage was 100% avoidable if ERCOT had winterized their equipment properly, even by the force or subsidization of the Texas government. It would have been better seeing the disaster never happen.
the U.S budget is always prioritized for war but not for its infrastructure. As much as i hate to admit it, china's got us beat in infrastructure.
Well, they've been working on it for like 6000 years. I'm pretty sure they don't train and arm extremists, and then fight them.
Hopefully someday we will see better times, but there's a lot of fools asleep at the wheel.
Well this isn't necessarily the Federal Government's fault, it's the Texan State government who didn't invest in protecting their energy infrastructure as they manage their own state grid.
@@Abbertown Federal is the key word here.
I wonder if people will remember that their officials are at fault, will they remember or will this just be another Katrina, or Puerto Rico or Flint Michigan. One can feel bad but at what point do we realized there's a problem that needs to be addressed
If history is anything to go by people will be too busy trying to simply survive to be able to hold the representatives accountable.
The reps will get HUGE donations from the power companies, theyll stay in power and nothing will change. This is pure free market capitalism.
Just wanna say it’s not the local officials here it’s the state officials who are too busy getting rich and owning the libs.
Nah, we’ll get justice!!! About as quickly as Flint finally did!
Nope people will keep voting for these corrupts politicians who keep letting these disasters happen and profit off of them as well. Cancun Cruz will probably run for president now
Corrupt Republicans I should say
With so many Mega churches and Christian Evangelicals . I’m surprise they’re not out there helping ppl too just goes to show government and religion have abandoned the ppl needs over greed and power
They send all there money to Israel don’t care about the people of Texas.
@@umaryusuf537 Because god forbid the Zionists feel uncomfy
The Gospel of Prosperity is the 21st Century equivalent to the Divine Right of Kings. Just wait until evangelicals try to enact a new form of Serfdom on minorities.
@@Gala-yp8nx they're already doing it, they're just going too slowly for most people to notice and rise up against it. This has been happening for the past 40 years.
There are plenty of church and Christian initiatives happening... They just aren't on Vice news
I live in Abilene, and sh*t got real last week. All the stores closed, and what grocery stores that were open, was totally stripped of all the vital things you need. Yeah you could get candy, but no produce, no bottled water, no bread, no toiletries, no meat. Lots of people had no water or no power, my family was personally lucky enough that we only lost water for a day and a half. I talked to some people who had no electricity or water, and they were totally miserable. Texas was not prepared at all for a blizzard, we haven't seen anything like that in 75 years. The people who were denying climate change here, have now started to change their minds. I think I'm about to invest in a generator, chains for my tires and a set of snow tires as well, just so if this happens again, im ready. This was a stressful event, and I feel for everyone here in TX that went through it.
I've been through that here in Jersey. The only thing I missed was the internet, lol.
Start voting republicans out, all they ever do is screw to regular folk and enrich themselves and their cronies.
Winter tires probably won't last until the next event and chain's work better in these conditions. Power generator small change to your fuse box and a suply of non perishable food+water purification would be my choice
"snow is like Justin Bieber it's really cutesy and fun until it becomes very annoying and it really should stay up in Canada"
Lmaoooo
😆
At least the Canadian Prime Minister would have done a way better job than your Governor.
Demand updates to Texas, before next winter season ! You all deserve to live in prosperity.
Lol good luck if any changes happen it won't be on company dime. The ppl pay and the way to get change if something breaks. In reality it not economically feasible for them to make changes since it won't benifit the company. Yes that's dumb that they don't want to invest but it's their choice and nothing can be done.
@@djblueluis Watch how the federal government is going to bail them out again.... and again....
@@ChristinaGerard433 capitalism at its best!
Step 1. Make profit while creating a future issue.
Step 2. Get taxpayers to pay for fixes to said issue.
Step 3. Increase usage prices due to improvements in the network. (Paid for by taxpayers).
Step 4. Profit a second time. Laugh maniacally whilst laying on a bed constructed of wads of $100 bills.
It hit -47 here in Canada one morning. I never seen it that cold that I can remember. Thats Celsius
Crazy
my European friend told me that it was "so American" of us to always find someone or something to blame when something goes wrong.
Us peasant have cars and such
"my European friend" - that's so American.
Yeah, my girlfriend, who’s hot, and goes to another school, said the same thing. Lol
Europe > America
Haha. How cute. I actually can’t argue with that tho. Lol
When I saw the young stepping up to the plate and lead, it actually felt like hope is tangible. Great job you guys. Maybe they should run the cities, apparently we have a lot of dumb politicians just milking the system.
Good to see those young Austin Hipsters helping ppl out.
didn't you know? they did it before it was cool! lol sorry couldn't help it. I'll see myself out lol
@@KelseyWolf lol
@@KelseyWolf nice ! 👏🤣
@@KelseyWolf you goose X)
@@KelseyWolf well, to be fair, the hipsters are the only ones equipped with the necessary cold weather protection, with their neck beards, scarves, and fedoras...
As a Canadian this is even more painful to watch
Same bro
Third. -50 in SK three weeks ago and my cat lost his ear. Good thing I found him. I think the weather extremes are going to get worse every year from now on.
the results of deregulation.
Results of reliance on "green energy"
People need to play Bioshock more.
@@glenquagmire4340 since when does Texas rely on green energy?
@@swamp-yankee seriously 😹
@@glenquagmire4340 Actually natural gas plants had the most failures and are responsible for nearly 50% of power in Texas-- over-reliance on natural gas screwed us way more than windmills.
Regardless, there's nothing wrong with windmills... if you actually maintain them and prepare them for extreme conditions.
Thank you volunteers!
Texas population grew 70% in 3 decades. Without sane regulation of a vital public utility the state is toast.
Much love I'm from Austin
Watching from Kenya Kanairo City
So I'm a truck driver out of Brownsville,Texas and they lost power for days as well, now I live in Mexico and we lost power for like 15 hours and never lost it after that.
We don't need governments anymore, what are they honestly for at this point?
It was definitely a wild week. I’m more thankful now for everything and everyone though that’s for sure
Communities coming together and helping each others out its great to see especially the young stepping up
Im in northern Ontario Canada and we always keep certain things in stock but people in Texas usually don't have to bcs of the great weather know they have to fix the electricity issues just incase it happens again 🍻from 🇨🇦
We keep things in stock.... Necessities, like beer, ammo, and brisket! lol Werd
@@baldman5k 3 out of 4 your absolutely right except edibles and hash no weed it molds eventually. ;)
I’m in austin... still don’t have water 🙂
Sorry to hear that it must be hard after going a week and a half. Prayers to you and your loved ones my friend. 🙏
Thanks vice for covering what we went through in Texas no power for almost a week and no water for 8 days nobody should have to go through this
Thanks to no regulations that republicans fight for, for their oil bosses.
Breaks my heart! Hoping the problems have eased
You do have time to call them out, if not they'll continue screening y'all over as soon as a bit of time passes.
hate to be the bearer of bad news but get used to these "unprecedented" storms. everywhere. we can't rely on the gov anymore, it has to be us taking care of each other. props to the communities in TX.
I agree that it is good to see people helping people. But what the guy said around 2:45 seconds is not accurate. There were several people that lived in affluent parts of town that had no power or water. It happened in all parts of Austin not just lower income.
VICE likes having an agenda. White people, particularly American white people, are the only ones to ever throw off a tyrannical world power. They hate that. DHS even trained cops several years ago that anybody that mentioned the Constitution was a potential terrorist and that this Nation's Founding Fathers were "terrorists" too.
"Storm", a normal day in Sweden is what I call that. How can it be this bad, look at your damn houses, literally made from cardboard.
They obviously always interview lower income families, instead of the higher ones, cuz Likes/tears/feels. There were people affected in ALL income brackets, in Austin, in ALL types of homes; built out of materials that range from cardboard to blood diamonds. The power grid does not discriminate against building materials (or do they), throughout the entire state. 👍
I live in north eastern pa. We call that Wednesday. Unfortunately, they just don't know how to survive.
???
What happens when it storms and no one warns you ...your roads are all iced out so you can’t drive ...you have no power no water and nothing is open for days .... ppl were heating there homes with terra cotta pots and candles .. drinking snow meanwhile our governs were posting tweets about fending for ourselves and going on vacation .. easy right .. yeah no!
Glad you guys liked it here :)
Conservatives: socialism is inefficient and never works, capitalism is better!
Capitalism in action in the video above.
Name me a 1st world socialist country
@@mightymane2598, We're not talking about socialism pal, we're talking about capitalism and right now you can see how well its doing.
Mutual aid is amazing.
Solidarity with people in need is awesome! Thank you!
Despite how scary life is right now, at.least you have a nice dog you can give a good hug
This doesn't look like a lot of snow. How did this create so much chaos?
They told us it was gonna be bad.. These guys didn't prepare.
Exactly. I live in an apartment and I have a generator, gas can and I have supplies to last 3 or 7 or 30 days. Now there's no excuse for that transplant in a cowboy hat with this Camaro to not have a generator in his garage and at least a week or two worth of gas in preparation for the storm.
Ok I understand Texas doesn't really ever get snow, but I really don't think people should be expected to buy generators, especially if they are strap for cash. Idk dude it just seems
unreasonable because where I live we have worse conditions then Texas for 6 months of the year of the year, yet no preparation is needed except for maybe buying salt if you don't want ice on your driveway.
These volunteers are the people who should be running for office. Texas! Vote for DECENCY!
The entire STATE needs a government and leadership refresh. Purge em all out, and let’s start over again! Shame! *bell* Shame! *bell* Shame! *bell*
Here I am in Florida where we get major and minor hurricanes every year that result in the loss of power and water for upwards of a week following a storm. Texas gets a polar vortex and power and water go down for a couple days and people are calling for political change and blaming institutional failures. To some regard, that might be true. The government could have mandates that the grid be hardened against temperatures within a certain range, but the average low in Texas is 40*F. The low during the vortex in Dallas, for instance, was 4*F. A factor of 10 difference. Take into account that Texas's average low in February is 60*F and now there's a factor of 15 difference. I know that when it comes to other infrastructure projects, there's an exponential curve when it comes to the cost of hardening something versus one more unit of the something. For example, it costs exponentially more to build another foot of sea wall along a water body, or another foot of dam.
From my understanding of what caused the grid failures in Texas, it was that a large portion of power plants shut down due to a lack of extreme cold tolerance across the state. Because Texas normally boost a hot climate, they design their fossil fuel power plants to not be encompassed by concrete structures that would accumulate heat and lead to equipment damage during its normal weather cycle. This lead to 25% of natural gas and 13% of coal plants going off line. Additionally, high demand for natural gas as everyone began heating their homes lead to natural gas shortages + natural gas wells froze over during the extreme cold, further reducing supply. Additionally, wind energy production fell 32%. Overall, 40+ GW of energy production were out of commission (including plants that had already been shut down for maintenance / upgrades). The grid peak demand was roughly 70 GW but they could only produce 50 GW. To prevent the grid from collapsing due to the frequency dropping, operators had to cut 20 GW worth of customers off.
Integration of the Texas grid with neighboring grids could have helped to prevent the 20 GW of blackouts as neighboring grids might have been able to export energy to Texas, but this is assuming they had spare capacity and enough integration to get their power far enough into the Texas grid where it was needed the most.
I've been wanting to move back to Austin, like I cant even begin to explain. I'm glad I dodged this mess though.
I have affordable housing, am Native American and live on a critical grid here in Austin, so I never lost power. This is simply bad reporting. Tarrytown had some of the longest blackouts and they r one of our wealthier neighborhoods. Pls do more research before stating things as fact.
There were plenty of White people without power, and even in the Suburbs, bad reporting.
Sad to me part of the mess! Went 5 days without power and no water! Born and raised in Austin, truly disappointed!
It was literally just 2 inches of snow wtf
Oh man those palm trees are FRIED. I don't think many will make it.
@Ins Dynsmite I so wish that were true, but I live in Austin and saw many beautiful old palms die after a much lighter freeze event a few years back. Those trees are TOAST.
I went blackshear elementary kealing and Austin high I've seen it change
David Thomason at the end really dropping the truth. This was a huge test of Texas's independent power grid and is miserably failed in a spectacular manner. Everything in Texas depended on power. First, no power = no internet. RIP working from home, ecommerce, news and information. Second, no power = no heat. All heat in Texas is electric (even if you have gas, blowers and lighters are electric) and houses are built cheap with garbage insulation, so they get cold fast. Eventually the cold got to the pipes (put in the ceiling and not winterized) and burst them. Lastly, no power = no water. If you were lucky not to have a pipe burst, power stopped water treatment plants and water tower pumping stations straining or even stopping safe water delivery. The worst part is the whole time Oklahoma laughed at Texas the whole time because Oklahoma decided to partner with the Federal Government to get power from other states when they needed it.
Oh hey, that oil-derricked small-town downtown is Kilgore, not Austin-way up in the northeast corner of the state about 4.5 or 5 hours away by car when the weather isn't frozen.
Strangest thing about Texas is the horizontal Traffic Lights
..... y’all tellin me they ain’t horizontal everywhere?
@@facetsofus2008 idk about everywhere, but not in Louisiana
@@facetsofus2008 I was curious so I googled it. Canada, Japan and USA commonly have horizontal, but all the rest of the world has vertical. I'm Australian so horizontal lights are exotic to me. :D
Below is a link of what I found.
www.driverknowledgetests.com/resources/why-are-traffic-lights-in-the-usa-and-some-other-countries-horizontal/#:~:text=other%20countries%20horizontal%3F-,Why%20are%20traffic%20lights%20in%20the%20USA%20and%20some%20other,aligned%2C%20like%20the%20ones%20below.
AWESOME !!!!!!!
NICE REPORTING VICE!!!!!!!!
I thought it was a recovery set up by post malone for a mili-second
I'm sorry but there's barely any snow on the ground. Stock up on canned goods fill up some 5-gallon containers with water and keep a generator with plenty of gasoline. If you don't have a home you can come together as a community and do it between 3 to 5 to 7 people.
Tell me again why do us as Americans pay taxes when the government always avoids helping us? We rely on gofundme as a form of healthcare and when we have natural disasters unpaid volunteers who are most likely in the same boat as the people they are helping doing more than the gov? America is fucked.
Hahahaha. I'm a canadian really laughing at the cowboy snow in the bath
Awesome to see an outside prospective.(wierd seeing buildings I pass by) Truly, rare case but super preventable. The wealth gap in austin is going to get extreme, some people resume life while others are still are struggling with the lockdowns & job loss.
Always.
Fans from Indonesia.
So where was F.E.M.A ???
I believe it was dismantled by the last administration...
It's been two weeks of group texts to find out who can get what pallets where, who has 4wd to do volunteer deliveries, who can pick up water for the complex we just learned has busted pipes, who can foster a family's pet that won't be back in their place till x time, of figuring out how to safely let friends crash at the houses that still had power and/or water, of knocking on neighbors' doors to see if they're alright, AND MORE. Not being able to flush my toilet without half a 5 gallon igloo of snow water wasn't the best, but at least I have even more confidence in my community and friends.
It shows that essential infrastructure is broken. Energy supply is a basic human need that needs to be distributed fairly and on an equitable basis
This is legit i’m from Bastrop texas and we have been giving out food and water. It’s worse here though we got hit just as hard, but don’t have the same resources. Our county and city have done nothing everything we have is from donations or FEMA.
Definitely becoming a prepper
I remember when Texas voted against helping NJ when we had the two hurricanes come thru and turn our power off for 7, 8, 9 days, 2 weeks in some areas, and at least now we know the officials don’t just not care about others, they don’t even care about their own population.
The fact is food pantrys and giving out blankets is not really helping, it's just feeling like its helping. These people need plumbers, contractors and other construction trades. They just want to get back in a functional home. Toilet paper and food dosnt do this.
Better than nothing.
Youth groups on the way!
AMAZING +++++++++++++
I love my home state, but this is just embarrassing and sad.
That cowboy at the end was hot.
He wasn't no cowboy. He just playin.
Drugstore commie posing as a cowboy. You see that a lot in Austin. Similar to the skinny jeans wearing, bearded commies in Pacific Northwest think they're lumberjacks.
Austin is way progressive, what a cool place
Awe yes freedom and the American dream manifested
When I see people say "what could Ted Cruz have done", I gotta think about this one dude here who personally delivered groceries to so many people as a volunteer. We really gotta expect more from people who get paid by your taxes
Infrastructure? Big, powerful new word to bandy about?? Big nothing deal? Where is the Government organization, and administration, to manage the mere necessities of life successfully, timely? ..... !
Why am I not surprised that legislation is being written to regulate power. The high electric bills the power companies issued were done intentionally to pass this legislation. They knew no one would pay those bills 100%. Now as always the regulatory legislation will be pushed through and be used to RESTRICT your power usage.
The people organize better than government. Not just our government but all government
Eli or Elijah is a great name btw
Laughing at all those people who moved from LA-TX
Well they hate regulations so they got what they were looking for.
While I appreciate the blame on the power company, what if it went out because of a bomb instead? Then no one to blame.
My point is people need to be better prepared. To realize power can go out, freak storms can happen. Extreme cold can happen.
So prepare people. Have that storage of water and nonperishable food items. Know how to make heat/fire.
Have a plan in place before they tell you it's an emergency.
Hmm will this mean anything in November?
This what happens when the state government politicians work for the large companies and not the working people , It always comes down to what makes the big companies the most MONEY .
The problems today all stem from the top down, no progress can be made because the intentions at the top are greed and greed alone. To that end they hamstring, undermine and otherwise overwhelm any efforts to make structural changes to any industry. Our governments all work for corporations, not their people, and investments go to the top officials and shareholders who merely eat it/hoard it and do not contribute generally to society with taxes nor with philanthropic endeavors. The world we live in changes according to a very stupid game put in place decades ago that is grinding our futures to dust, and most of us see it on some level.
You don't even need power to survive.... people survived years before us without power 😂
@@CRS_83I was thinking the same , poor souls , I rather just call it quits before I couldn't survive without alittle heat for a few hours , I always hung out with the really old dudes early In life . I'm good now 🤠😎
What an outrage in Texas in the USA people died of hypothermia and residents no power for days, and then no food and water pipes bursting! On top of all this is Covid!!!!!! How awful these electrical people were so unresponsive during this type of catastrophe !!!
SO COOL ++++++++++++++++++++++
FOLLOW BUILDING CODES. HIRE LICENSED PROFESSIONALS. INSULATE ALL EXPOSED PIPING.
Well what a lot of homeowners and building management shoulda done was when they saw water was off and heat was off and that it was way below zero they shoulda taken action and bled the water lines so they wouldn’t burst.
@@legacyturbo8485 People in Texas don't know how to do that, I doubt they even would know the pipes would burst. It was their politicians duty to tell them to do that, regular Texans have no reason to have ever known that this was something they had to know as it doesn't normally get this cold.
@@ethan6627 yes valid point but listen if you have half a brain ..!!!!!!! Usually cold means water turns to ice ..!!! No heat in a house means water in pipes turns to ice then what ..!!!!! Pop there goes the water pipes. It doesn’t matter where you’re from this is common sense. Texas does sometimes get colder weather it’s just not below freezing. Every house has a water meter so you turn off the water to the house then open up all faucets until no more water is coming out. This woulda saved many flooded houses and buildings ...!!!!!!
Even over exaggeration is BIGGER in Texas.
That cowboy 🤠 scientist broke it down and is right this could have been prevented 15 years ago!!!!
I've heard more about tiger woods crash(which he most likely was fucked up)sad what America us becoming.
WE REALL NEED TO LOOK AT WHATS GOING ON IN AMERICA 🇺🇸.. GREED / POLITICAL VIEWS.. 💔💔💔💔
All started with Enron
Texas has been fkn up lately and I’m over IT😤
This idea of "individualism, just become self-reliant" makes no sense when you're on the grid, in the system that you rely upon for all these wonderful modern conveniences and lifestyles... you want the good things? You gotta work with and for the community, not against the greater public good.
Invest in the people!
did a texan just say climate change is real?
It was def brutal.
We need people in STL to be like that!
Wonders of Privatisation and deregulation.
You had a good run Americans. It's over.
We had cities in the Americas while Europe was under miles of ice, and it was tribal in Mesopotamia. Y'all ought to call this the old world. The current empire seems to be crumbling, but there's plenty folks here that will do just fine.
For a state that’s all about independence they can’t seem to ever take care of themselves.