Wishing you and the family all the best, David! That is truly a nightmare of an experience to have to deal with at any time, but especially as a creator that's been trying to build a new space and catch up on projects.
A little advice from Russia, when leaving the house without heating with temperatures around 0 degrees or when it is very cold outside. Leave the water tap open a little. Although wasteful, it will help the water in the pipes not freeze.
Thats what we’re told to do in USA, but if someone has an electric water pump (i lived somewhere that needed one) without power you can’t turn anything on, this may have been the case.
So many were dripping their faucets that cities lost water pressure from the busted pipes & dripping. Some cities had no water due to such low pressure, then had to put on boil water notices once water was able to return.
our water was out for a day or so but whenever we did have it we kept the water running. Boil water notice as well, thankfully we filled up the bath tub before for washing things and had tons of bottled waters to prepare for hurricanes.
Yeah that's crazy... Totally weird to be seeing all these snowy FREEZING COLD videos from places that aren't up north! The busted pipes are going to be off the charts.
Today I learned: If I have to leave my house because it's freezing, turn off the water, and open a faucet to make sure there's no pressure buildup... I would never have thought about that. I hope I don't have to use that knowledge. :-)
That works fine. But if the whole house freezes most do not have all water lines draining down hill. Plus you have to use RV antifreeze in traps. Or veg oil. Best bet is to also blow compressed air thru lines and that still might not get it all. Have had to solder many a water line. Because they couldn't get all the water out when winterizing.
I live in Sweden and if I leave my house for more than a day it's second nature to turn of the water supply. It takes very little time and can save you so much trouble.
An alternative is to open the water cold and let it trickle down the drain. When water freezes it expands and if the water is off the the freezing water has no place to expand into. If you open the taps and let them drain then the pressure will not be bad. Do this for hot and cold pipes of course.
Kinda nothing that could be done. Its not the first time nor the last that this will happen in texas. Problem is all of the infrastructure down to every nut and bolt was built without freezing temps in mind as it only happens once every 10 or so years. To fix the problem would involve rebuilding literally everything from major gas lines to every hose bib in the state. Atlesat a trillion dollars in repairs. Its easy and even realtivly cheap to manage for cold weather from the start. Its a whole different story trying to retrofit a system for cold weather.
@@cccpkingu Yep. Same thing with FL when it comes to Hurricane weather. It really boggles my mind after so many hurricanes they still havent updated building standards.
I’m really sorry you guys weren’t given a heads up on how to prevent burst water pipes when temps get below freezing. Even with power and heat on in the northeast/midwest we still take precautions when temps get in to the teens such as: a Slow drip, insulate susceptible pipes and/or shut off water to house if power Is out or your leaving for more than a day. EDIT: Many of you have pointed out that some Texans knew to, or did do these things and still had bursts. If you shut water off at street, purge the pressure from the line, there won't be bursts. And if by some weird way pipe does burst, water will not continually pour into the house. If power was off for an extended period, Let the house warm up gradually. Then slowly introduce pressure to the house incrementally, with faucets open. This should help reduce the potential for a burst when re-pressurizing the lines
Yeah, in general Texas really didn’t do anything to help its citizens out during this. Weather disaster and a pandemic and not much really being done about it
It was sustainably cold for so long and access to power (or even water to keep running through the pipes) was so inconsistent that it wouldn't have always made a difference. I caught a pipe burst in my own slab despite taking countermeasures. The faucets were under control but a part of my slab foundation still got so cold that ice formed in it and created a pinhole burst. The only thing I could have really done was pre-drained all the plumbing before we had gotten below freezing in the first place. I'm not even sure that would have been sufficient since my burst appears to be down in the slab where some water would have settled regardless. Try to purge it with an air compressor? They don't put secondary shut offs for outdoor faucets into the plumbing here like I remember growing up in upstate New York.
Yeah shutting down your water supply and bleeding the pipes when you have to leave or power grid goes down is winter living 101. Hell I even cut the water off in tropical countries when I leave just in case.
I was thinking myself, the first thing to do when leaving a house in sub zero temperatures is to turn off the water. Drain the pipes if you can, but if the water is off, any leak will be minor by comparison. I've had a pipe freeze and burst because of about 1/2 a litre of water which didn't drain out, but the damage was limited to a couple of metres of pipe.
I remember helping a friend out when his waterbed exploded...almost all the furniture was ruined and everything had just been freshly renovated. Half the drywall had to be replaced, all of the flooring...but....after it was repaired, you'd never know it happened at all. Sounds like insurance isn't giving you a hard time, so I am sure everything will be back to normal before you know it.
@@encycl07pedia- for some reason my mum bought my brother and I waterbeds when we were kids. I don’t know why we were far from well off and she barely scraped through financially but that is probably why silly purchases. Luckily for us the only issue I had was sometimes the power cable would get knocked out of the wall and I would wake up really cold cause the water sack would suck all the heat from around it including me
@@unnamedchannel1237 As long as you don't poke a hole in it, a waterbed never wears out, is easy to completely clean, and is fairly easy to pack up when empty.
@@unnamedchannel1237 I've heard of that, but why on earth would you get heals anywhere near a bed? Forgetting the water bit, having them tangled in sheets/ripped sheets - stupid idea.
Remember to check the insulation and studs for mold. The insulation is easy enough to replace. The studs can be saved if you spray and wipe down with mold remover.
Oh, that's nasty... I live in Canada, so we're prepared for pipes bursting, but when you live in a place where that "never" happens, it really sucks. :( Hope you manage to get everything sorted out and put back together nicely.
I have a few friends in Germany and they were absolutely overwhelmed, it's crazy how it went from barely snowing at all in years to something like this.
Snow is an insulator... Pipes below ground or inside your house will burst faster with no snow than with a thick layer of snow during a real cold snap...
Fun fact; a company tried to pull that off here in Florida during hurricane season. Needless to say that didn't hold well in court and they went out of business shortly after for failing to pay out what was owed
@@mjohnsimon1337 It's happened before. A bunch of rich guys in the mid-1800s bought a reservoir and earth dam in a Pennsylvania canyon prone to flooding and built a resort, weakening the dam in the process by lowering it to install a road and blocking the spillways with fish screens, which trapped debris. Predictably, the dam burst on May 31, 1889, and totally obliterated the town of Johnstown, killing over 2,200 people. The survivors sued, but the lawyers of the club argued that the incident was an act of God. The courts agreed and the survivors got nothing.
Im so sorry that happened to you and your family. The Texas power crisis with that miserable snow storm was a disaster and a tragedy. A lot of damage was done. I'm glad to know youve had some help. I shall pray for you and hope everything woks out! Good luck and God bless you!
I had a similar thing that happened to my mom. Drying it out and construction took forever, but I also used the opportunity to replace all the pipes with newer ones made of some type of flexible plastic so it can never happen again.
Let's see .. no electricity, freezing weather, leaving the home for an unknown period of time ... I would turn the mainwater line to the house off and maybe even the main power to the house to protect devices from a surge when power does come on.
You have to watch the electricity regardless when it comes to ice build ups on overhead lines. You could be sitting in a situation where everything appears normal, but half your breaker panel is running a constant 1.5x its normal voltage through the receptacles and switches due to a broken leg outside.
Alternatively, turn on the faucets to a slow trickle; that will keep the pipes from freezing. If you've never lost heat, you just don't know to do this.
@@james_chatman Amen brother...most pipes in south Texas run exposed to the exterior...thats just the way things get done in these parts...it doesn't have to look pretty just needs to work
I don’t think it was the infrastructure. I think it was his spigot outside. If you don’t cut the water to that pipe and drain it, it’ll burst regardless cause it runs outside.
Yes it is we have both gas and electric. I have an unvented heater so pipes will not freeze. And old thermocouple furnaces used to come on and heat the plenum then shut of which used to help when power went out. But not the new energy efficient gas furnaces.
There are anti frost spigots that we all use in cold areas. It shuts off the water well inside the wall and drains out the rest as long as you dont leave a hose connected!
While frost spigots are a great idea they don’t always work as advertised. When the one in my garage froze and broke I put a ball valve shutoff inside the house in addition to a regular shutoff outside. Winter comes and I shutoff the inside valve and leave the outside one open.
@@snorman1911 And you get what you deserve if you don't remove the hose and bring it inside. Namely, the hose freezes and bursts. (The spigot may or may not freeze inside the wall and burst, but that's only a problem if it bursts in such a way as to compromise the valve. Otherwise, you just have to replace it in the spring and realize you were a dumbass.)
2 days before the sh*t hit the fan me and my wife got ready, we purchased 4 weeks worth of groceries, we defrosted the fridge and stored our meet outside. Went to the gas station and got a full tank on me car and 3 full gas cans, went to the storage to pull 2 boxes of military meal and some extreme cold weatheer clothing (from my military days). and my ultralight camping cookware and burner and 3 extreme weather sleeping system. Wife said i was too much and over reacting, she was proven wrong really quick. Good thing we prep for the event. Only problem we had was no hot water and it was cold to walk around the house but other than that we survived the 4 days of darkness (lol). It was nice not having to work because there was no internet. 😂
Here in Finland cold weathers below -20 °C (-4 F) are the norm but when it comes to hot weather we are screwed haha. Most buildings don’t have any AC units at all and if the inside temperatures of rented apartments go above 32 °C (90 F) the law says rents will be discounted.
To be honest, I wonder whether insurance will really cover this. If I was an insurance company, I'd blame the owner for gross negligence since the water wasn't shut off when the house was left unoccupied during freezing temperatures and no heat source. Sure, this kind of stuff always sucks on a personal level but it's only fair to those who did shut off the water and prevented the damage.
Apparently it’s not totally unprecedented... This show and power outage has happened a couple of times before, last time was 10 years ago and both times a report was made that suggested that the power companies in Texas should winterise the power generators and buildings. Both times the power companies ignored the suggestions and now you are badly affected by this negligence.
8-Bit guy has made it clear in his political videos that regulations are a liberal conspiracy to hurt Texas. He is having to deal with the policies he has supported publicly.
One of us has the wrong definition of 'bobtail' in this context. You're clearly using it to mean a towtruck (that actually tows the vehicle, rather than what we normally get here near Ottawa, Canada, which is a flatbed that can be tilted and slid back to reach the ground and a big winch on the front of it that can just drag a vehicle on to the back and carry it away) while I use it to mean the traction unit on a semi (which towtrucks up here are designed to be able to pick up and drive away with). As for the episode, that was funny because everyone was panicking over about 1/4 inch of snow and barely freezing temperatures. This became particularly funny about Peggy later in the series when it was revealed she's from Montana, where winters are serious things.
@@silent1967 Only person I've seen using a mask over his eyes was the Brazilian president. People with brains just use it to protect their mouth and nose, as needed.
A little prepping goes a long way. We had a freeze in El Paso and I turned off our water and used my compressor to flush the lines, without water in the lines they don't freeze.
@@n2rj That liquid was in the toilet so that the sewer gases would not come back up and get inside the house and could cause an explosion it’s a liquid that never ever evaporates
I’ve hated all the snow and ice we’ve gotten in Pennsylvania recently, but I would gladly take yours for you! Everyone down there has my thoughts and prayers through this difficult time!
Our prayers are with you and all the people effected by the cold weather and power outage. I really do understand the issues with power outages in winter. I've dealt with 2 weeks without power in the winter in the upper Midwest on a farm in the deep country with a wood burning stove as the one thing that saved our butts. Yup! I understand. Take care.
@@jryde421 I took everything from my freezer and put it outside in the snow... everything in the fridge went to the garage. Went about 60 hours without power, but we managed to spend 45 hours of that with a generator thanks to Lowes... watched all of the Harry Potter movies at night. I got a LOT more snow than the 8-bit guy, though, 8" on Sunday night, the top layer melted during the next day, froze Monday night, and turned to a slippery mess for Tuesday... then we got another few inches of snow and 1.5" of ice on top of that, could stand on the foot+ deep snow and not push through. Had to do a fuel run in those conditions... 5MPH fun, half mile, half hour. One of my outside spigots also froze, but I was monitoring them, so I managed to avoid a leak.
@@Withnail1969 Insurance is specifically designed to cover human error. Also it isn’t his fault that the power went out nor is it reasonable to assume these days that people know how to turn off and drain the water. He apparently proved he did know how to do that and should have done that on this we agree but he should get to file a claim.
Wow, I'm so sorry you're going through this. I'm glad to hear at least you and the family and the pets are physically ok and have somewhere to stay. Don't worry, we'll still be here when you have the ability to make videos again.
Take care , hate to see this. Great to see that you are all working together to overcome We have relatives in Austin, Texas who are experiencing similar problems.
Sorry to hear about the chaos - these things usually happen in waves, so hopefully we'll all get over this very strange start to 2021 and push on to greater things! Take care.
omg that snow storm was crazy nearly slipped a few times walking my dog i went to work one of those days & the power in the store was out. never seen that store that dark & empty before.
As a canadian I thought people were being dramatic until my favourite YT creators started talking about their experience and boy was I wrong and boy am I glad you're (and the tech is) ok!
Hi Dominic. It's hard to explain, but I think it boils down to this: We are prepared for hurricanes, tornados (esp David's area), flooding, and rattlesnakes. However, prolonged snow and ice that lasts longer than 24 hours was something outside of our imagination. Similarly if Texas had an earthquake of the kind that shakes California or Japan all the time, our cities would probably all be crumbled to the ground, because That Just Doesn't Happen. You don't prepare for the impossible.
It's a region that normally doesn't experience freezing temperatures, so nothing is designed for it, and no one has any experience with it. No pipes insulated to prevent freezing, no exterior faucets are the design to prevent pipe bursting, so on and so on. Tech can be great, but when the conditions fall outside its operating range, everything shuts down. Could be the first time many Texans have experienced icy roads. Crazy time.
Yeah, it might be easy for us northerners to shrug off a few feet of snow but the folks down south just aren't equipped to deal with stuff like this. I dread to think how many homes suffered burst water pipes...
@@giin97 Another thing I've heard is the houses, because Texas = hot for a lot of the year, are designed to shed heat, unlike in more northern states. Great for the summers cause it helps them keep cooler but very very bad for weather events like this since any heat you can make can be quickly lost due to the lack of insulation/design of the houses.
@@rocktheworld2k6 the also aren't designed structurally for the weight of ice and snow on the roof, nor with sufficient pitch for it to not heavily accumulate. That they get hurricanes is their saving grace here; otherwise, we may have seen many, many collapsed roofs.
Yeah, pipes freeze. That's why up north we don't rely on electric grid heating...and buying a new 25k car for an 18 year old? You have the resources most don't have..
I hope youre fine in this moment, here in Monterrey México, we had no electricity or gas for more than a week, i really hope that everything's okay. Blessings from México.
Sorry for all the problems. We here in Colorado always try to keep you Southerners from the brunt of the storms but this one just came right in and knocked us all on our asses and forgot our names on the way. Having bulldozed us, it gleefully kicked butt all the way to Padre Island and halfway across the Gulf. We're taking up a collection to build the stock storm fences higher and stronger so you won't be bothered like this next time. My rheumatiz says the winter ain't over yet, so I'll impart some valuable advice: The next time you figger it's gonna do something like this, remember there's gas in your lawnmower and your neighbor's. When the lights go out, grab one clean trashcan and fill it with the freezer stuff and take it out into the garage or back porch where the wolves and bears and mountain lions will have a hard time raiding yer frozen vittles but they ain't gonna thaw till they hit the barbecue. Hope things turn out golden for ya...we out.
no, this is what happens when a dem president insists on renewables and shuts down an oil line that could have kept Texas going! Blaming the reps is wearing blinkers and ignoring the facts!
Agreed. I think U.S. power infrastructure needs more than updating. Much of it needs to be completely overhauled and replaced. It's all still based on architecture dating back to the 50s and 60s. @Familyhelpdesk provide some actual evidence or shut up. Fox news and your neo nazi message boards don't count. This has nothing to do with renewable energy sources and everything to do with emergency preparedness and money. The steam generation plants which provide the vast majority of power to the region (Nuclear & Natural Gas) froze up same as the renewables because NOBODY took basic cold weather precautions every other power generation site does where it gets cold. Winterization costs money, and a bunch of bean counters said no, despite the folks who actually put in the work to keep it all running warning us of the impending disaster that extended freezing temps would cause. They knew this day would come, but they were ignored by the board members and fuckwits in the suits. There was nothing they could do when the forecast was given but try and keep the grid from failing completely. This is a direct result of greed fueled by excessive privatization and lack of oversight. This is what "small government" looks like. Take a good look.
no this is what happens when an area that never gets cold gets Minnesota like weather. was it a failure of government and business that Hurricane sandy, one of the weakest hurricanes to make landfall this century, did so much damage? no its because Sandy hit and area that virtually never gets hurricanes. there was no reason to winterize Texas's power grid because Texas doesn't get the winters the yankee states do. the only blame i place on Texans is not having your storm gear shit together. come on man! you get hurricanes! the fuck is your generators at texans!?!??!
I keep a cellar stocked with canned and bottled food and water to last two months about every 6 months i rotate it by eating it and resupplying. People don't laugh at me anymore
I'm ashamed to admit, I always thought the preppers were nuts, but I'm watching prepper youtube videos now to prepare for the next disaster. This is the final straw where I've lost all faith in our government to plan centrally for this, its time to prep for ourselves. Its a bit of a learning experience too though, so for example my friend thought he was smart and cut off water to his house in advance of the winter storm thinking he was golden, and had turned all his faucets on so it should have all drained... well, nope. So he had no flooding or anything, but when it was all over and he got back power, that's when he discovered that not everything drained including his whole home water softening system that even though it was wrapped in sleeping bags and oversize leaf bags and even a tarp to top it all off still ended up cracking along with a pipe in the house that somehow didn't drain completely. So letting all faucets drip is a safer solution than cutting water off to home and opening faucets. I was also considering selling our Ram 1500, but you know with its 32 gallon fuel tank, all terrain ability, and ease of loading up the generators gas and propane cans we setup first for parents and then a family friend when they got power back, I think we're going to keep the beast.
Frick. We had lots of snow here in Germany, I had water in my cellar and coming through the roof, but not something like this. Good you got some kind of insurance. Ours is only paying half of the damage taken. Wishing you all the best.
@@CarnotJoule Nope, Schäden durch "Schmelzwasser" sind explizit ausgeschlossen. Konnte ja auch keiner ahnen, dass der Wind solche Massen unter die Schindeln auf die Unterspannbahnen weht, dass es hinterher in den Innenraum sickert, ist mir in 10 Jahren in diesem Haus noch nie unter gekommen. Aber man lernt nie aus.
@The 8-Bit Guy In hungary we have waterpipes 1,6 meters deep underground lied down to avoid freezing & leaking. (there are standards for this.) If you do any serious refurbing this is a thing might be consider for the future.
So sorry you and your community is having to deal with this. I'm glad it looks like you'll be able to recover but I've made donations to regional mutual aid orgs supporting folks who need help in the area and implore others to do the same
We helped each other during the blackout. We cooked food, shared vehicles for warmth and power for charging phones and laptops. They brought fuel and water for us in turn. We had a good exchange going.
Nighthawke70 It’s been similar here in Portland, where that same storm hit first before heading your way. We had inches of ice and somewhere around 11 inches of snow, and many were out of power for like 10 days. People that lived IN town. I got super lucky and only lost power for around 4-5 hours. This was one monster of a storm ⛈. Glad you had people to help each other out. I still barely know my neighbors.
I know , I heard and saw that to. We are blessed with great neighbors here in Georgetown, Texas also. They were so great! Checking on my husband and I to see if we were doing alright. Calling us from the store to see if we needed something .We had extra wood that we shared with our next-door neighbor also. When we were in The Woodlands our neighbors were really helpful there to. Fort Worth also come to think of it. Maybe it's a Texan thing? I don't know, but through hurricane (The Woodlands), tornado (Fort Worth) and the Big Freeze (Georgetown) our neighbors have been a true blessing.❤️
My step father was a homebuilder, every time we leave the house for an extended period of time he always turns off the water and evacuates the pipes. Never know when a pipe will burst.
My dad does that, plus emptying the fridge and unplugging appliances. You don't know when you can get your home flooded, hit by lighting or power issues.
Canadian here: When all that snow starts to melt, stay away from creeks and rivers. Also make sure the storm drains on the street aren't clogged or you will have more flooding.
Lake Worth here - we just got the okay to use tap water again today, I've never been so glad to wash dishes! The kitchen was looking like a war zone as we were using boiled bottled water to wash just what we needed at the time. We were lucky though, we had power the whole time so we could melt snow to flush the toilets. Hope things are improving for you!
Oh man, that’s rough. I can’t imagine going through all of that. Thankfully your neighbors are happy to help out the weird guy who’s always hosing off computers lol. Wishing you the best!
it was way worse for me in texas in the 2001 ice storm, our trailer home was under a tree, we thought the tree was going to fall on us, took 1 month to get full power back
I was actually wondering how you'd be doing the other day, considering you live in Texas... You are one of my favourite creators, and it's unfortunate to see this happen to you.
While getting my morning started today I realized out of nowhere that he's based in Texas. I'm relieved to hear his family is safe, but it's all still all very unfortunate.
@@grigss3027 I love the kitties meows. Too bad they're scared, but they're so cute. Mine have to move 6 hours away in a few weeks :) I want to be in the car with them but I will probably have to drive my own truck separately.
I just can't believe how few folks have generators. Like, I know snowstorms basically never happen in Texas, but you still need a generator for normal storms, tornadoes, and hurricanes.
So sorry you guys are going through this. Glad to hear you are doing ok for the most part. Hang in there, like the C64 you are unstoppable! Best wishes
Same here, best wishes 8 Bit Guy! Reminds me of when my mother's house was flooded (along with the whole area). The flood only lasted a few hours, but it took months to get her back to normal.
While great for recharging cell phones and powering small items for short periods of time cannot heat a home for even brief emergencies. One gallon of propane heat is the equivelant of 27kWh for around $1.50/gallon that's about 5 cents per kWh, here is what I found on a powerwall, $469.00 per kWh.
For the record, most areas don't have shutoffs for the spigots, don't have basements, and the water shutoff is almost impossible to find. Most areas in the US essentially hope it never gets cold enough for this to happen.
@@TheBarisaxman17 It would behoove homeowners to know where the main water supply cutoff is (and test it once a year or so) - not only for unexpected events like this but whenever a major leak happens otherwise. Just plain common sense.
My house was wired for phone jacks, whoever built the home was really nice and used ethernet cable to run the phone lines, so i just rewired all my phone jacks to ethernet. Was a nice surprise, tbh.
Brilliant idea. I do similar. Ie if a 17” monitor breaks I might buy a 19” monitor. That way you get something new from all the grief. This is really horrid. Feel for you.
When I found out about the panic happening all over Texas, I was so embarrassed to barely find out after living here over 30 years that El Paso wasn’t connected to the rest of the Texas grid. We got the snow and cold temperatures, yet non of the blackouts.
Aren't y'all like barely in the next time zone over, too? I feel like that would get confusing if you need to change your watch every time you drive to a nearby city.
@@Mikeological it’s true, we are in mountain standard time. Luckily we have smart phones or watches that change automatically when changing location lol. It sucks for analog watches yea.
@@Mikeological oh I do too but analog clocks lol. As for watches I just been using apple watches ⌚️. Those only suck because their battery only last 15 hours
Department of Energy blocked gas a coal back up power days before the storm, due to emissions. This storm was not taken seriously by the federal government. And now we must pay the price. Dont blame Democrats or Republicans, look into those truly responsible and hold them accountable no matter their politics. Disaster relief money cannot be the only answer. Stay safe fellow Americans!!!!
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Damn I’m sorry... that sucks. Hopefully everything worked out. I’m in California and the longest I’ve been without power in the last 2 years is 4 hours total.
@@vogelvogeltje I am jealous as hell lmao. I am from Texas and we had our power go out for 3 days back around August for seemingly no reason. Luckily during the blizzard it only went out for like 16 hours.
Have them use their transport boxes as their normal sleeping place. Ours does. We have taken 11 hour trips with her and didn't hear as much as a meow from her. She does fart though occasionally due to the vibration, and you wouldn't believe how much stink comes out of such a small cat.
I can’t believe the news didn’t warn people to shut off their water or to leave it dripping. Seems so intuitive living in Wisconsin, but not so much in Texas I guess 🤷♂️
@@houseofgrindgaming3448 Gotta keep them sitting through those commercials to find out whether their dog's water bowl is cancer causing at 6. Honestly, as someone whose lived in Texas and now living in Indiana, I just gotta say it's a real wakeup call when you're not used to dealing with this kind of weather. I went from never having a wreck to smacking a telephone pole. Down south, we just never worried about the cold at this level. Temperatures would drop, but wouldn't stay low enough to really affect much. We're used to fighting the heat and worrying about hurricanes down there.
I shut my water off at the meter and opened up several faucets, and still had 3 pipes break. The good part for me, though: I was there when I turned the water back on, so it only took a few minutes to see the water start to drip from the ceiling - and I shut it back off. I have a section of ceiling sheetrock fall down in the kitchen. It could have been much worse.
They do.. i personally blew my outside lines out with compressed air. Youd thought Texas was in dire straits but i assure you we werent. Every time there is a natural disaster, the same shit happens. Milk, Bread, Power, Water goes away for a few days. Its not like Texas doesnt set its clocks by natural disasters.. because we do. Maybe it was Anderson Cooper standing in a meatlocker? idk.
My dripping water faucets kept freezing. They kept freezing even running at a rate faster than a drip. Had to put boiling water on the faucets to keep them running. Didn't turn off the water because we still needed to use the water throughout the day.
I grew up around hateful, reckless, and criminal neighbors during most of my life so when I was living in a "normal" neighborhood I was upset. When hurricane Harvey came and cut off half of the block's power, the other half open their homes and were nice to me It made me sick. I quickly moved out of that place and I am now living comfortable in the factory district where there is no one else residing for a mile around me.
@@gredangeo could you imagine if "being neighborly" was made mandatory by government? If you don't go over to your neighbors at least once a month and spend an hour helping them with yard work, you go to jail? Keep the government out of being neighborly, and keep government out of healthcare.
"I'm a little bit of a prepper." Also "my hybrid car was low on both gas and electricity." Thinking about all you folks in Texas. Wish there was more we could do.
seriously. Having extra food doesn't make you a prepper - FEMA suggests that everyone should have two weeks of food and water on hand at all times. Preppers measure their stockpiles of food in months or years, and of course have solutions for power / heat / fuel, etc. I personally have 120 gallons of gasoline on hand. Buy the ethanol free stuff, put in fuel stabilizer, and rotate the stock by filling up my cars with the old stuff first. Can get tedious, but I can always run my generator or drive where I need to go.
@@PsRohrbaugh He did say "little bit" of one. Not everyone wants to store fuel stabilizers, MREs, and water purification tablets. It's great ya memorized the FEMA page, though.
If I lived in the US I'd have a generator and UPS and water for several days. Especially after seeing how the government "handles" a big crisis like covid. I've also been telling everyone that covid isn't a a guarantee against another crisis happening at the same time, yes you can have a pandemic AND riots AND storms AND whatever else. Life isn't a game and the DM doesn't play fair.
@@SierraSierraFoxtrot SPOT ON! In a hundred years we've gone from "having to harvest enough crops to make it through the winter" , to "assuming that the grocery store will always be open". And for the most part, our society does an OK job. But it's not perfect, and your survival is ultimately on YOU.
Heh heh. I had my water freeze a couple of days back and was tempted to use old aquarium water on the toilet, but luckily I got it unfrozen before that became a necessity.
Sorry this happened. As someone whose basement has flooded half a dozen times, get dehumidifiers in there and just dry stuff out. You don't have to replace everything and likely shouldn't have to replace the drywall. It sucks, but you'll get back on your feet sooner than you think.
Same here. Our basement bloods every other year, in spring. So we have a dehumidifier otherwise it will get nasty. We bypassed the fill tank and ran the drain hose right to the sump
That is true, but you might as well take everything insurance will give you. The last thing you want is a mold problem creeping up on you later. If something like this happened to me and I had to spend my own money, though, I'd probably do what you're suggesting unless the mold had already set in.
I don't know about Texas but down here in south Florida, your walls get wet you rip everything out. If you don't, you will have walls full of black mold and serious respiratory problems.
The outside walls insulation will at least have to be fixing because it will never dry out. The inner uninsulated walls probably would be ok but may as well do them too while everything is out of the house and since insurance will cover it. Nothing more aggravating than water damage, other than smoke damage maybe.
“I don't need money and the insurance is taking care of the damage” It suddenly struck me how honest this is in this day and age.... how many out there would have tried to take advantage of people's willingness to help. All the best David...stay safe...
I agree. David also mentioned in one of his previous videos as well. He doesn't put them annoying ads in the middle of the vids like a lot of other youtubers do.
There's always one dishonest bastard in the bunch, and I'm getting the feeling it's going to be the insurance company in this case. I seriously don't think David's going to pull a fast one on the insurance company, but I've seen Louis Rossmann's videos. Insurance companies are full of crap. I hope he watches his back on this one.
@@zapa47 Except for your leadership. Some say you’re on your own and others leave the country. Wishing you all the best and I hope things keep improving.
@@SurfTheWebIsPapaMemes i meant he doesn't use a tragedy to squeeze out money from followers. He said it plainly: insurance will cover it. That's A+ in my book
@@laci272 Also, he does have a Patreon, so it's basically like he's busking, only instead of free music it's free sweet tech videos, which you can chip into if you like.
@@sasquatchhunter86 The Dems do it better than the Republicans. We at least require regulation of utilities which forces them to build things better. Here in Colorado, with regulated utilities, the only places that lose power more than a day are the high country areas where 3 or 4 or 6 feet fall overnight. Only once in 40 years have we lost power for more than 24 hours and that was when we had a six foot snowfall in one day. Most of the time the power is back on in an hour or two even during violent storms and serious (-20F) storms.
@@legoman8960 Yeah, also being from Wisconsin, when I saw footage of the storm, I immediately thought, "that's it" as I see 3-4 times that much in my yard. I understand that this usually doesn't happen in Texas, but it is strange seeing that much damage when up here I have been through storms that dumped 4 times that amount and no damage was had.
Wishing you and the family all the best, David! That is truly a nightmare of an experience to have to deal with at any time, but especially as a creator that's been trying to build a new space and catch up on projects.
Yes
@Luke Clint lives in the Carolina's.
@Luke I think he's up in Wisconsin or something, where it's like it is for me here near Ottawa, Canada.
where I live this would be considered disappointing little snow
do they normally not get snow in texas?
@@evensgrey He lives in the Asheville area of NC (Mountainous region) - snow there is a bit more common than the rest of NC.
1:47 Cats meowing in stereo. And if we upgrade, we can have Dolby ATMEOWS.
Thi comment is underapreciated
Wonder if the audio engineer had to use Meow Mix
@@LidLockTV Ha! Nice.
the back meowers are easy but where are you supposed to put the front meowers?
A little advice from Russia, when leaving the house without heating with temperatures around 0 degrees or when it is very cold outside. Leave the water tap open a little. Although wasteful, it will help the water in the pipes not freeze.
Thats what we’re told to do in USA, but if someone has an electric water pump (i lived somewhere that needed one) without power you can’t turn anything on, this may have been the case.
So many were dripping their faucets that cities lost water pressure from the busted pipes & dripping. Some cities had no water due to such low pressure, then had to put on boil water notices once water was able to return.
yep, that's what I did in Houston just a few hours south of 8-bit guy. Saved our house i think. My neighbors weren't so lucky.
our water was out for a day or so but whenever we did have it we kept the water running. Boil water notice as well, thankfully we filled up the bath tub before for washing things and had tons of bottled waters to prepare for hurricanes.
From NY. In my experience, we tend to get
I feel really bad for you. I hope everything turns out better in the future. Keep it up!
Yeah that's crazy... Totally weird to be seeing all these snowy FREEZING COLD videos from places that aren't up north! The busted pipes are going to be off the charts.
At least climate change is fake.
So this snow is totally normal phenomenon. Not great, not bad.
@@livinlicious Are you being sarcastic?
Today I learned: If I have to leave my house because it's freezing, turn off the water, and open a faucet to make sure there's no pressure buildup...
I would never have thought about that. I hope I don't have to use that knowledge. :-)
That works fine. But if the whole house freezes most do not have all water lines draining down hill. Plus you have to use RV antifreeze in traps. Or veg oil. Best bet is to also blow compressed air thru lines and that still might not get it all. Have had to solder many a water line. Because they couldn't get all the water out when winterizing.
In freezing temperatures, you need to let outside faucets drip.
The water froze and burst the pipe inside his wall.
I live in Sweden and if I leave my house for more than a day it's second nature to turn of the water supply. It takes very little time and can save you so much trouble.
where i live, if no one enters your house to check while you are away, after 10 days you are not covered
An alternative is to open the water cold and let it trickle down the drain. When water freezes it expands and if the water is off the the freezing water has no place to expand into. If you open the taps and let them drain then the pressure will not be bad. Do this for hot and cold pipes of course.
"meowing in stereo" - my new favourite phrase.
Steremeow
Don't you mean your "furourite" phrase?
Great album
@Epikgamerwmp CCN: I think that was a song by The Cars, featured in the infamous Phoebe Cates swimming pool scene in Fast Times At Ridgemont High! :)
Mew furvourite purrase
As someone who grew up with harsh winters, this whole event is just mind blowing to me.
Kinda nothing that could be done. Its not the first time nor the last that this will happen in texas. Problem is all of the infrastructure down to every nut and bolt was built without freezing temps in mind as it only happens once every 10 or so years. To fix the problem would involve rebuilding literally everything from major gas lines to every hose bib in the state. Atlesat a trillion dollars in repairs. Its easy and even realtivly cheap to manage for cold weather from the start. Its a whole different story trying to retrofit a system for cold weather.
@@TheBUGZNTA Just build better, and replace the stuff that breaks with better things and it will get there eventually.
Same here, I didn't realize how different homes and infrastructure are in texas
@@cccpkingu Yep. Same thing with FL when it comes to Hurricane weather. It really boggles my mind after so many hurricanes they still havent updated building standards.
@@Maverick.D. And they (even ins co's) still let people rebuild in places that will get slammed again. And people want to do so...
Wishing you the best. When I saw the news my first thought was "oh shit 8bit guy lives there". Glad to hear the warmer weather is coming.
Yeh,that was my reaction as well when I heard the news mention Fort Worth in Texas!!
@Dominic Cerisano I had to google wok faucets were.
I see,you mean taps :-D
Never mind everyone else then. As long as 8-bit is ok. Nice. Dig the compassion.
Same thoughts as well
Sounds like mold upon mold to me
I’m really sorry you guys weren’t given a heads up on how to prevent burst water pipes when temps get below freezing. Even with power and heat on in the northeast/midwest we still take precautions when temps get in to the teens such as: a Slow drip, insulate susceptible pipes and/or shut off water to house if power Is out or your leaving for more than a day.
EDIT: Many of you have pointed out that some Texans knew to, or did do these things and still had bursts. If you shut water off at street, purge the pressure from the line, there won't be bursts. And if by some weird way pipe does burst, water will not continually pour into the house. If power was off for an extended period, Let the house warm up gradually. Then slowly introduce pressure to the house incrementally, with faucets open. This should help reduce the potential for a burst when re-pressurizing the lines
Yeah, in general Texas really didn’t do anything to help its citizens out during this. Weather disaster and a pandemic and not much really being done about it
It was sustainably cold for so long and access to power (or even water to keep running through the pipes) was so inconsistent that it wouldn't have always made a difference. I caught a pipe burst in my own slab despite taking countermeasures. The faucets were under control but a part of my slab foundation still got so cold that ice formed in it and created a pinhole burst. The only thing I could have really done was pre-drained all the plumbing before we had gotten below freezing in the first place. I'm not even sure that would have been sufficient since my burst appears to be down in the slab where some water would have settled regardless. Try to purge it with an air compressor? They don't put secondary shut offs for outdoor faucets into the plumbing here like I remember growing up in upstate New York.
Yeah shutting down your water supply and bleeding the pipes when you have to leave or power grid goes down is winter living 101. Hell I even cut the water off in tropical countries when I leave just in case.
I really think the government or local authorities should have given a public announcement of this. No ones talking about that.
I was thinking myself, the first thing to do when leaving a house in sub zero temperatures is to turn off the water. Drain the pipes if you can, but if the water is off, any leak will be minor by comparison. I've had a pipe freeze and burst because of about 1/2 a litre of water which didn't drain out, but the damage was limited to a couple of metres of pipe.
"Cats meowing in stereo" !!!!
That really got me!
They are so cute!
I remember helping a friend out when his waterbed exploded...almost all the furniture was ruined and everything had just been freshly renovated. Half the drywall had to be replaced, all of the flooring...but....after it was repaired, you'd never know it happened at all. Sounds like insurance isn't giving you a hard time, so I am sure everything will be back to normal before you know it.
I remember thinking waterbeds were awesome as a kid. Now as an adult I can appreciate all the things that can go wrong with them.
Quite a few high heals went through waterbeds in the 70’s and 80’s 👹
@@encycl07pedia- for some reason my mum bought my brother and I waterbeds when we were kids. I don’t know why we were far from well off and she barely scraped through financially but that is probably why silly purchases. Luckily for us the only issue I had was sometimes the power cable would get knocked out of the wall and I would wake up really cold cause the water sack would suck all the heat from around it including me
@@unnamedchannel1237 As long as you don't poke a hole in it, a waterbed never wears out, is easy to completely clean, and is fairly easy to pack up when empty.
@@unnamedchannel1237 I've heard of that, but why on earth would you get heals anywhere near a bed? Forgetting the water bit, having them tangled in sheets/ripped sheets - stupid idea.
Remember to check the insulation and studs for mold. The insulation is easy enough to replace. The studs can be saved if you spray and wipe down with mold remover.
Smash 'n' Build if you don't spray the studs quick enough
Hey man! So sorry to hear about this :( best of luck my friend ❤️
Was not expecting you here. Like the content btw.
Wow , that was an unexpected visit from somebody I also subscribe to. Even in the internets, it's still s small world...
now we know what doctor mix watches on TH-cam. same shit as the rest of us lol
@@lawrenceplays Same, although it makes sense if you think about his other channel: 8-bit keys.
Hi Dr Mix!
Stereo cats lol, gotta hand it to ya despite a crisis you still have a sense of humor sir. ☺ Best wishes
Amateurs. I get surround sound meowing
Oh, that's nasty... I live in Canada, so we're prepared for pipes bursting, but when you live in a place where that "never" happens, it really sucks. :( Hope you manage to get everything sorted out and put back together nicely.
I feel you. Got a broken water pipe after having around 80cm of snow in germany.
Deutschland ist gut!
@BalbinoGD Yes, germany.
I have a few friends in Germany and they were absolutely overwhelmed, it's crazy how it went from barely snowing at all in years to something like this.
@@jdatlas4668 Yea I totally agree. My sister had about 140cm of snow on her balcony, it was madness.
Snow is an insulator... Pipes below ground or inside your house will burst faster with no snow than with a thick layer of snow during a real cold snap...
Has insurance declared it an "Act of God" and that they're not paying, yet?
Fun fact; a company tried to pull that off here in Florida during hurricane season.
Needless to say that didn't hold well in court and they went out of business shortly after for failing to pay out what was owed
Those people are the scum of the earth!
@@mjohnsimon1337 It's happened before. A bunch of rich guys in the mid-1800s bought a reservoir and earth dam in a Pennsylvania canyon prone to flooding and built a resort, weakening the dam in the process by lowering it to install a road and blocking the spillways with fish screens, which trapped debris. Predictably, the dam burst on May 31, 1889, and totally obliterated the town of Johnstown, killing over 2,200 people. The survivors sued, but the lawyers of the club argued that the incident was an act of God. The courts agreed and the survivors got nothing.
@@mjohnsimon1337 but doesn’t Florida get a minor hurricane every year and like a giant one every 5 years 😆.
@@Ralph-yn3gr Yeah well, as soon as religion gets involved with anything at all it`s going to be a complete shitshow..
1:52 life’s the same, we’re meowing in stereo
Life's the same, except for wet shoes...
@@dcpyatt nice
Life's the same, the battery's gettin' low
Life's the same, We'll move to mom's with you....
@@GoSlash27 Nice nice
Im so sorry that happened to you and your family. The Texas power crisis with that miserable snow storm was a disaster and a tragedy. A lot of damage was done. I'm glad to know youve had some help. I shall pray for you and hope everything woks out! Good luck and God bless you!
I had a similar thing that happened to my mom. Drying it out and construction took forever, but I also used the opportunity
to replace all the pipes with newer ones made of some type of flexible plastic so it can never happen again.
Let's see .. no electricity, freezing weather, leaving the home for an unknown period of time ... I would turn the mainwater line to the house off and maybe even the main power to the house to protect devices from a surge when power does come on.
You have to watch the electricity regardless when it comes to ice build ups on overhead lines. You could be sitting in a situation where everything appears normal, but half your breaker panel is running a constant 1.5x its normal voltage through the receptacles and switches due to a broken leg outside.
Thats what I did. Thank god we dodged the frozen pipes bullet. Alot of my neighbors are dealing with broken pipes right now.
Alternatively, turn on the faucets to a slow trickle; that will keep the pipes from freezing. If you've never lost heat, you just don't know to do this.
@@hunterjohnson7393 Keep in mind that doesn't always work when insulation and pipe protection is poor, like in Texas.
@@james_chatman
Amen brother...most pipes in south Texas run exposed to the exterior...thats just the way things get done in these parts...it doesn't have to look pretty just needs to work
The beauty of living some place cold like Wisconsin, the infrastructure is prepared for the coldest of cold. Best wishes!
I don’t think it was the infrastructure. I think it was his spigot outside. If you don’t cut the water to that pipe and drain it, it’ll burst regardless cause it runs outside.
Yes it is we have both gas and electric. I have an unvented heater so pipes will not freeze. And old thermocouple furnaces used to come on and heat the plenum then shut of which used to help when power went out. But not the new energy efficient gas furnaces.
There are anti frost spigots that we all use in cold areas. It shuts off the water well inside the wall and drains out the rest as long as you dont leave a hose connected!
While frost spigots are a great idea they don’t always work as advertised. When the one in my garage froze and broke I put a ball valve shutoff inside the house in addition to a regular shutoff outside. Winter comes and I shutoff the inside valve and leave the outside one open.
@@snorman1911 And you get what you deserve if you don't remove the hose and bring it inside. Namely, the hose freezes and bursts. (The spigot may or may not freeze inside the wall and burst, but that's only a problem if it bursts in such a way as to compromise the valve. Otherwise, you just have to replace it in the spring and realize you were a dumbass.)
2 days before the sh*t hit the fan me and my wife got ready, we purchased 4 weeks worth of groceries, we defrosted the fridge and stored our meet outside. Went to the gas station and got a full tank on me car and 3 full gas cans, went to the storage to pull 2 boxes of military meal and some extreme cold weatheer clothing (from my military days). and my ultralight camping cookware and burner and 3 extreme weather sleeping system. Wife said i was too much and over reacting, she was proven wrong really quick. Good thing we prep for the event. Only problem we had was no hot water and it was cold to walk around the house but other than that we survived the 4 days of darkness (lol). It was nice not having to work because there was no internet. 😂
Yeah, that sucks. As soon as you said you had no heating I thought: "Did you shut off the water and bleed the pipes".
Drain... bleed gets air out... amazing...
Yeah, thought the same. When water freezes in your pipes it gets expensive and when the water is still on you will get flooded
I guess it's not something that occurs too often in an area that doesn't deal with the cold regularly.
Here in Finland cold weathers below -20 °C (-4 F) are the norm but when it comes to hot weather we are screwed haha. Most buildings don’t have any AC units at all and if the inside temperatures of rented apartments go above 32 °C (90 F) the law says rents will be discounted.
To be honest, I wonder whether insurance will really cover this. If I was an insurance company, I'd blame the owner for gross negligence since the water wasn't shut off when the house was left unoccupied during freezing temperatures and no heat source. Sure, this kind of stuff always sucks on a personal level but it's only fair to those who did shut off the water and prevented the damage.
Apparently it’s not totally unprecedented... This show and power outage has happened a couple of times before, last time was 10 years ago and both times a report was made that suggested that the power companies in Texas should winterise the power generators and buildings. Both times the power companies ignored the suggestions and now you are badly affected by this negligence.
8-Bit guy has made it clear in his political videos that regulations are a liberal conspiracy to hurt Texas. He is having to deal with the policies he has supported publicly.
Imagine the size of the negligence claim if the evidence is available to lawyers...
I think... too manny bulls in TX🐂🐄
@@faenethlorhalien "Late Stage Capitalism" LOL read something other then Wikipedia pls, preferably a book on history written before 1960
@@albertpratt4999 how about a book on history written in...1867
in 1998 a flood hit my town and my dad had to go to his mother in laws house and cut out all the hardwood floor
This is literally the King of the Hill episode where Hank has to use the bobtails to distribute propane
I love the shirt
One of us has the wrong definition of 'bobtail' in this context. You're clearly using it to mean a towtruck (that actually tows the vehicle, rather than what we normally get here near Ottawa, Canada, which is a flatbed that can be tilted and slid back to reach the ground and a big winch on the front of it that can just drag a vehicle on to the back and carry it away) while I use it to mean the traction unit on a semi (which towtrucks up here are designed to be able to pick up and drive away with).
As for the episode, that was funny because everyone was panicking over about 1/4 inch of snow and barely freezing temperatures. This became particularly funny about Peggy later in the series when it was revealed she's from Montana, where winters are serious things.
@@evensgrey Thank you David, very interesting!
@@oliverbuchanan3399 thank you Oliver!
King of the Future predicted the Hill.
Cat travel tip: Put a sheet or blanket over the carriers. Unlike a lot of people, they deal with vehicle motion better if they don't see it all.
A lot of people are like that. At this point in time they call it a mask.
Does not work, cat was loud as fuck the whole ride
@@silent1967 Only person I've seen using a mask over his eyes was the Brazilian president. People with brains just use it to protect their mouth and nose, as needed.
@@ulti-mantis masks exist for more than protection for mouth and nose. Like a sleeping mask
My furmonster is happiest sitting on the rear seat backs and watching the world go by the windows...
The car doesn't necessarily run on gas. It has an engine not much bigger than a lawn mower to charge the motor.
A little prepping goes a long way. We had a freeze in El Paso and I turned off our water and used my compressor to flush the lines, without water in the lines they don't freeze.
@@n2rj That liquid was in the toilet so that the sewer gases would not come back up and get inside the house and could cause an explosion it’s a liquid that never ever evaporates
Hope you have recovered from the storm. Arlington was horrible and we got flooded as well!
I’ve hated all the snow and ice we’ve gotten in Pennsylvania recently, but I would gladly take yours for you! Everyone down there has my thoughts and prayers through this difficult time!
Our prayers are with you and all the people effected by the cold weather and power outage. I really do understand the issues with power outages in winter. I've dealt with 2 weeks without power in the winter in the upper Midwest on a farm in the deep country with a wood burning stove as the one thing that saved our butts. Yup! I understand. Take care.
It was so cold in my house for those 2 days without power that even the milk in my fridge survived.
Here in Kansas when it get that cold..sometimes we leave food in the trunk of the car, like milk, meat, other perishables.
@@jryde421 I took everything from my freezer and put it outside in the snow... everything in the fridge went to the garage. Went about 60 hours without power, but we managed to spend 45 hours of that with a generator thanks to Lowes... watched all of the Harry Potter movies at night.
I got a LOT more snow than the 8-bit guy, though, 8" on Sunday night, the top layer melted during the next day, froze Monday night, and turned to a slippery mess for Tuesday... then we got another few inches of snow and 1.5" of ice on top of that, could stand on the foot+ deep snow and not push through. Had to do a fuel run in those conditions... 5MPH fun, half mile, half hour.
One of my outside spigots also froze, but I was monitoring them, so I managed to avoid a leak.
@@jryde421 i ate half a can of cold chicken noodle soup then just stuck it outside as the head of my failed mini snowman and finished it the next day.
Insurance Company: that’ll be 1% of your policy.
Depends on the policy, sometimes 2%.
It was his fault for not tuning off the water.
@@tomlaw8821 yep, he shouldn't be able to claim.
@@Withnail1969 Insurance is specifically designed to cover human error. Also it isn’t his fault that the power went out nor is it reasonable to assume these days that people know how to turn off and drain the water. He apparently proved he did know how to do that and should have done that on this we agree but he should get to file a claim.
@@larkittobe he knew the power was out therefore should have shut off the water and drained the pipes before leaving.
Wow, I'm so sorry you're going through this. I'm glad to hear at least you and the family and the pets are physically ok and have somewhere to stay. Don't worry, we'll still be here when you have the ability to make videos again.
So sorry about this David. I wish you and your family, as well as those in Texas well during these difficult times.
Take care , hate to see this. Great to see that you are all working together to overcome We have relatives in Austin, Texas who are experiencing similar problems.
1:47 "We got to listen to the cats meowing in stereo the whole way there"
I LAUGHED INSANELY WITH THAT LMAO
And that was only seven miles! I recently drove THREE cats 900 MILES. I think my hearing is finally recovering, five months later. 🤪
@@MrJest2 Sorround sound effect 🤣🤣🤣
Shoutouts and well-wishes from Jersey!
Sorry to hear about the chaos - these things usually happen in waves, so hopefully we'll all get over this very strange start to 2021 and push on to greater things! Take care.
omg that snow storm was crazy nearly slipped a few times walking my dog
i went to work one of those days & the power in the store was out. never seen that store that dark & empty before.
As a canadian I thought people were being dramatic until my favourite YT creators started talking about their experience and boy was I wrong and boy am I glad you're (and the tech is) ok!
Hi Dominic. It's hard to explain, but I think it boils down to this: We are prepared for hurricanes, tornados (esp David's area), flooding, and rattlesnakes. However, prolonged snow and ice that lasts longer than 24 hours was something outside of our imagination. Similarly if Texas had an earthquake of the kind that shakes California or Japan all the time, our cities would probably all be crumbled to the ground, because That Just Doesn't Happen. You don't prepare for the impossible.
It's a region that normally doesn't experience freezing temperatures, so nothing is designed for it, and no one has any experience with it. No pipes insulated to prevent freezing, no exterior faucets are the design to prevent pipe bursting, so on and so on. Tech can be great, but when the conditions fall outside its operating range, everything shuts down. Could be the first time many Texans have experienced icy roads. Crazy time.
Yeah, it might be easy for us northerners to shrug off a few feet of snow but the folks down south just aren't equipped to deal with stuff like this. I dread to think how many homes suffered burst water pipes...
@@giin97 Another thing I've heard is the houses, because Texas = hot for a lot of the year, are designed to shed heat, unlike in more northern states. Great for the summers cause it helps them keep cooler but very very bad for weather events like this since any heat you can make can be quickly lost due to the lack of insulation/design of the houses.
@@rocktheworld2k6 the also aren't designed structurally for the weight of ice and snow on the roof, nor with sufficient pitch for it to not heavily accumulate. That they get hurricanes is their saving grace here; otherwise, we may have seen many, many collapsed roofs.
Yeah, pipes freeze. That's why up north we don't rely on electric grid heating...and buying a new 25k car for an 18 year old? You have the resources most don't have..
Prayers from Lubbock Texas
I hope youre fine in this moment, here in Monterrey México, we had no electricity or gas for more than a week, i really hope that everything's okay. Blessings from México.
Truly sorry that this has happened to you and your family. Stay strong and rebuild. Glad you are safe and secure with your family
remember, your politicians are why so much power went out
A lot of people liking this comment for different reasons...
Good thing y'all's senator is there to help the people.. Oh..
Frozen water lines, who would expect that during a heavy winter period.
Sorry for all the problems. We here in Colorado always try to keep you Southerners from the brunt of the storms but this one just came right in and knocked us all on our asses and forgot our names on the way. Having bulldozed us, it gleefully kicked butt all the way to Padre Island and halfway across the Gulf. We're taking up a collection to build the stock storm fences higher and stronger so you won't be bothered like this next time. My rheumatiz says the winter ain't over yet, so I'll impart some valuable advice: The next time you figger it's gonna do something like this, remember there's gas in your lawnmower and your neighbor's. When the lights go out, grab one clean trashcan and fill it with the freezer stuff and take it out into the garage or back porch where the wolves and bears and mountain lions will have a hard time raiding yer frozen vittles but they ain't gonna thaw till they hit the barbecue. Hope things turn out golden for ya...we out.
Was what I just read satire?
Wishing you the best
The situation in Texas shows how fragile the infrastructure is. IT NEED UPDATING
No, this is what happens when republicans shun safety regulations and "big government", in favor of a capitalist system for a service.
no, this is what happens when a dem president insists on renewables and shuts down an oil line that could have kept Texas going! Blaming the reps is wearing blinkers and ignoring the facts!
Agreed. I think U.S. power infrastructure needs more than updating. Much of it needs to be completely overhauled and replaced. It's all still based on architecture dating back to the 50s and 60s.
@Familyhelpdesk provide some actual evidence or shut up. Fox news and your neo nazi message boards don't count.
This has nothing to do with renewable energy sources and everything to do with emergency preparedness and money. The steam generation plants which provide the vast majority of power to the region (Nuclear & Natural Gas) froze up same as the renewables because NOBODY took basic cold weather precautions every other power generation site does where it gets cold. Winterization costs money, and a bunch of bean counters said no, despite the folks who actually put in the work to keep it all running warning us of the impending disaster that extended freezing temps would cause. They knew this day would come, but they were ignored by the board members and fuckwits in the suits. There was nothing they could do when the forecast was given but try and keep the grid from failing completely.
This is a direct result of greed fueled by excessive privatization and lack of oversight. This is what "small government" looks like. Take a good look.
no this is what happens when an area that never gets cold gets Minnesota like weather.
was it a failure of government and business that Hurricane sandy, one of the weakest hurricanes to make landfall this century, did so much damage? no its because Sandy hit and area that virtually never gets hurricanes.
there was no reason to winterize Texas's power grid because Texas doesn't get the winters the yankee states do.
the only blame i place on Texans is not having your storm gear shit together. come on man! you get hurricanes! the fuck is your generators at texans!?!??!
Good luck with repairing the house!
my girlfriend wonders why i want to keep a weeks worth of supplies at all times in a closet, THIS IS WHY
She never been in school? They teached us all.
You mean last year when the grocery stores across the country were empty wasn't enough of an explanation?
I keep a cellar stocked with canned and bottled food and water to last two months about every 6 months i rotate it by eating it and resupplying. People don't laugh at me anymore
I'm ashamed to admit, I always thought the preppers were nuts, but I'm watching prepper youtube videos now to prepare for the next disaster. This is the final straw where I've lost all faith in our government to plan centrally for this, its time to prep for ourselves. Its a bit of a learning experience too though, so for example my friend thought he was smart and cut off water to his house in advance of the winter storm thinking he was golden, and had turned all his faucets on so it should have all drained... well, nope. So he had no flooding or anything, but when it was all over and he got back power, that's when he discovered that not everything drained including his whole home water softening system that even though it was wrapped in sleeping bags and oversize leaf bags and even a tarp to top it all off still ended up cracking along with a pipe in the house that somehow didn't drain completely. So letting all faucets drip is a safer solution than cutting water off to home and opening faucets. I was also considering selling our Ram 1500, but you know with its 32 gallon fuel tank, all terrain ability, and ease of loading up the generators gas and propane cans we setup first for parents and then a family friend when they got power back, I think we're going to keep the beast.
@@charles-y2z6c 👍🤩
Frick. We had lots of snow here in Germany, I had water in my cellar and coming through the roof, but not something like this. Good you got some kind of insurance. Ours is only paying half of the damage taken. Wishing you all the best.
We too in Poland have lots of snow, so much snow that my whole leg disappears
@zerzayar be persistent. If you have Elementarschäden and a Gebäudeversicherung they should be paying for everything.
I live in the warm Part (north rhein Westphalia) and we had -10° celsius
@@XPBytez Me too. That -10 °C was nothing compared to the -20 °C ten years ago. But this time, there was a lot more snow and wind.
@@CarnotJoule Nope, Schäden durch "Schmelzwasser" sind explizit ausgeschlossen. Konnte ja auch keiner ahnen, dass der Wind solche Massen unter die Schindeln auf die Unterspannbahnen weht, dass es hinterher in den Innenraum sickert, ist mir in 10 Jahren in diesem Haus noch nie unter gekommen. Aber man lernt nie aus.
Hope everything is much better now.
After the snow, the temperature went back to 80 F/ 28 C. True Texas weather.
with a some months late, i hope you and family be well ... good luck, all will be ok !! God bless you all!
hugs from a brazlian fan...
@The 8-Bit Guy In hungary we have waterpipes 1,6 meters deep underground lied down to avoid freezing & leaking. (there are standards for this.) If you do any serious refurbing this is a thing might be consider for the future.
I’m in Louisiana. Hell basically froze over
I was right there with you during this time. We didn’t have water for about 3 weeks 😩
Dang that sucks. I'm glad everyone is ok, good luck with the repairs!
8bit guy at least the snow keeps the rattle snake away.
Hope everything is going better
Sorry David. Hope things are going well.
So sorry you and your community is having to deal with this. I'm glad it looks like you'll be able to recover but I've made donations to regional mutual aid orgs supporting folks who need help in the area and implore others to do the same
By the way mate, I reckon you’ve got a cool voice for radio or tv voice overs. Very calming and clear.👍🇦🇺🤪😁
Definitely. A great communicator and someone who has real ability and talent to engage and educate his audience no matter their ability.
Greetings from Jakarta, Indonesia where flooding is at yearly basis. Hope everything is clear 🙏🙏🙏
You call it banjir there in Texas, over here we just call it Monday morning 😂
@@tuanbe 🤣🤣🤣
Wibuuu woyy wibuuu sasageyooo
It's not actually flooding jakarta is sinking vox did a video on it
@@ibidibi sure and mati lampu isn’t actually the lampu being mati so it’s not happening
“Our neighbors helped us”
I wish I had neighbors like that.
Or maybe I should be more like that?
....or both.
We helped each other during the blackout. We cooked food, shared vehicles for warmth and power for charging phones and laptops. They brought fuel and water for us in turn. We had a good exchange going.
Where do you live?
@@mrp4242 Coastal Bend Texas.
Nighthawke70 It’s been similar here in Portland, where that same storm hit first before heading your way. We had inches of ice and somewhere around 11 inches of snow, and many were out of power for like 10 days. People that lived IN town. I got super lucky and only lost power for around 4-5 hours. This was one monster of a storm ⛈.
Glad you had people to help each other out. I still barely know my neighbors.
I know , I heard and saw that to. We are blessed with great neighbors here in Georgetown, Texas also. They were so great! Checking on my husband and I to see if we were doing alright. Calling us from the store to see if we needed something .We had extra wood that we shared with our next-door neighbor also. When we were in The Woodlands our neighbors were really helpful there to. Fort Worth also come to think of it. Maybe it's a Texan thing? I don't know, but through hurricane (The Woodlands), tornado (Fort Worth) and the Big Freeze (Georgetown) our neighbors have been a true blessing.❤️
My step father was a homebuilder, every time we leave the house for an extended period of time he always turns off the water and evacuates the pipes. Never know when a pipe will burst.
Smart man.
we do that here. and i live in Greece
I do that with my place in the mountains
Actually, if you are leaving for more than a day, even just the weekend, shut the water off and maybe the gas too.
My dad does that, plus emptying the fridge and unplugging appliances. You don't know when you can get your home flooded, hit by lighting or power issues.
"The cats meowing in stereo." Man... I laughed hard
Lol
New band name:
Stereo Püssy
@@RobeonMew yesss
Nobody noticed how the cats eyes are green?
@@MemeHut1000 and nobody noticed thwir fur was matte?
you not being funny
Canadian here: When all that snow starts to melt, stay away from creeks and rivers. Also make sure the storm drains on the street aren't clogged or you will have more flooding.
Yep good advice. A lot of water will form once things melt.
I have seen melting water from Swiss Alphs and that water is racing through the small rivers with very high speed. Very dangerous.
@@jankees4037 not that much snow in Texas though 🙂
It's worse because the ground is so dry and packed, it won't just run into the dirt. Vegas was the same when it rained. Floods really easily.
Here in Dallas we weren't prepared for something we haven't seen in 200 years and it shows.
Dude, that sucks! I feel so bad for you guys. I live next door in FT Worth so I feel you.
Lake Worth here - we just got the okay to use tap water again today, I've never been so glad to wash dishes! The kitchen was looking like a war zone as we were using boiled bottled water to wash just what we needed at the time. We were lucky though, we had power the whole time so we could melt snow to flush the toilets. Hope things are improving for you!
@@Skraeling1000 the water was so bad it was unsuitable for the toilets??
BOBBY IS A NERD
@@AidanEvansGHS- Hail Satan!
Its hot in uk 11 degrees
Oh man, that’s rough. I can’t imagine going through all of that. Thankfully your neighbors are happy to help out the weird guy who’s always hosing off computers lol. Wishing you the best!
I forgot you existed. I need to start watching your vids more often, I really like them
Get out.
it was way worse for me in texas in the 2001 ice storm, our trailer home was under a tree, we thought the tree was going to fall on us, took 1 month to get full power back
I was actually wondering how you'd be doing the other day, considering you live in Texas... You are one of my favourite creators, and it's unfortunate to see this happen to you.
Yeah it’s very unfortunate
@@Hi-jv7ew I've never experienced anything of this sort before myself so I can only imagine
While getting my morning started today I realized out of nowhere that he's based in Texas. I'm relieved to hear his family is safe, but it's all still all very unfortunate.
same, I heard Texas and I instantly got worried
I can’t imagine somewhere like the Northern Territory (has similar temperatures to Texas) here in Australia getting snow.
_"we got to listen to the cats meowing in stereo"_
Lmao,even your jokes are smart
lmao sounds exactly like mine
yes
must have been a great car ride
@@heroslippy6666 heavenly ride imo, i love cats
@@grigss3027 I love the kitties meows. Too bad they're scared, but they're so cute. Mine have to move 6 hours away in a few weeks :) I want to be in the car with them but I will probably have to drive my own truck separately.
Never realized how much stuff i take for granted in my northern house. Stay safe man
Same
Ranch style home northern illinois two fireplaces and a wood burning stove in the grand room. We don't mess around up here
I don’t take my PEX plumbing for granted. My pipes freeze a dozen times every winter. Never had a break.
I just can't believe how few folks have generators. Like, I know snowstorms basically never happen in Texas, but you still need a generator for normal storms, tornadoes, and hurricanes.
True. After seeing all these horrible videos of pipes broken, it shows how blessed we are! I'm praying to Jeus that the weather warms up soon!
Upvote for stereo cats being awesome even during such a tragic time.
My cats are in 7.1 surround
I can just imagine them going "Are we there yet?" "Are we there yet?" "Are we there yet?"
Even if slightly out of phase...
And they're tuned the same as Cyriak's cats.
meowsome
So sorry you guys are going through this. Glad to hear you are doing ok for the most part. Hang in there, like the C64 you are unstoppable! Best wishes
Yep
"Meowing in Stereo"
A classic album.
The secret of the superb sound: David implanted a MOS 6581 in the right cat and a 8580 in the left one.
Lookup "Duetto buffo di due gatti" by Rossini - actual classical aria with singers meowing. :)
Nothing like this I hope.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_organ
They’re meering loudly!
Checking in almost a month later - hope everything’s ok, dude.
yea
Same here, best wishes 8 Bit Guy!
Reminds me of when my mother's house was flooded (along with the whole area). The flood only lasted a few hours, but it took months to get her back to normal.
Best wishes
Same here. Hope he is doing fine. All best wishes from Austria
Hi! best wishes from France, I miss yu guy!
Really sorry to see this. Hope everything gets better for you.
siberian texas
hi Elliot
ELL-EEE-UUT 🩸👈🛸
I watch your channel
Awwwwew
Priorities: Do what you need to do. We'll be here when you get back.
We need to install a DIY powerwall on your home
While great for recharging cell phones and powering small items for short periods of time cannot heat a home for even brief emergencies. One gallon of propane heat is the equivelant of 27kWh for around $1.50/gallon that's about 5 cents per kWh, here is what I found on a powerwall, $469.00 per kWh.
@@1965ace You know not who you speak to young Jedi. jehugarcia is the man when it comes to powerwalls.
@@salty6pence672 just watched his videos, this guy knows his electricity, holy shit. he just earned a new sub. That channel is nuts
Have a professional do it. Idiots
Such a friendly nice guy. Doesnt deserve this! His neighbours are great! Chin up Texas!! From Australia..
Seconded from Australia.
Ugh, man, I am really sorry for what you’re going through. That sucks so much. Switch to freeze proof outside spigots.
Tip: always shut off all outside tap before the winter to avoid any freeze damage!! 😉
(You can reopen them when the spring arrives.)
All you have to do is shut the main water off and turn on all the lines let them run out 10 mins of work and nothing would of happened
I always use the extended hydrants for that reason
For the record, most areas don't have shutoffs for the spigots, don't have basements, and the water shutoff is almost impossible to find.
Most areas in the US essentially hope it never gets cold enough for this to happen.
@@TheBarisaxman17 It would behoove homeowners to know where the main water supply cutoff is (and test it once a year or so) - not only for unexpected events like this but whenever a major leak happens otherwise. Just plain common sense.
David take this opportunity to run ethernet with keystone jacks to every room. I did that when this happened to me.
Great tip, since you're having to buy a new kit anyway 👍
Yes, definitely very important and educational, knowing your home network is empowering
My house was wired for phone jacks, whoever built the home was really nice and used ethernet cable to run the phone lines, so i just rewired all my phone jacks to ethernet. Was a nice surprise, tbh.
That’s actually a great idea
Brilliant idea. I do similar. Ie if a 17” monitor breaks I might buy a 19” monitor. That way you get something new from all the grief. This is really horrid. Feel for you.
When I found out about the panic happening all over Texas, I was so embarrassed to barely find out after living here over 30 years that El Paso wasn’t connected to the rest of the Texas grid. We got the snow and cold temperatures, yet non of the blackouts.
Aren't y'all like barely in the next time zone over, too? I feel like that would get confusing if you need to change your watch every time you drive to a nearby city.
@@Mikeological it’s true, we are in mountain standard time. Luckily we have smart phones or watches that change automatically when changing location lol. It sucks for analog watches yea.
@@joshWUa915 oh a lot of the people I know use analog or digital watches haha
@@Mikeological oh I do too but analog clocks lol. As for watches I just been using apple watches ⌚️. Those only suck because their battery only last 15 hours
oh yeah cuz western texas is part of the western power grid and not the texas power grid
Wow, sorry that happened to you. Stay safe.
Department of Energy blocked gas a coal back up power days before the storm, due to emissions. This storm was not taken seriously by the federal government. And now we must pay the price. Dont blame Democrats or Republicans, look into those truly responsible and hold them accountable no matter their politics. Disaster relief money cannot be the only answer. Stay safe fellow Americans!!!!
@@danbam465 100% agreed
I'm from Michigan. Don't take it the wrong way, but welcome to the seasons.. Good 👍
On the bright side, while you're cutting up the lower drywall it would be a good time for home network upgrades.
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@@walidfakhfakh3660 uhhh what?
What a way to make a positive out of the situation.
Yep, time to run ethernet cables, and why not, fiber (for futureproofing)
"as you can see all my collectables are still on the shelf and still fine."
Wew.
Good for mental health
bludstone *Whew
I know, I would cry. Been collecting crap for 30 years, and no way to replace it.
Our “rolling blackout” was about 52hrs. Luckily we had a generator and damage was minimal.
Damn I’m sorry... that sucks. Hopefully everything worked out. I’m in California and the longest I’ve been without power in the last 2 years is 4 hours total.
Ours in Oregon was about 72 hours
Had a pipe burst in kitchen, thank God i had 1/2" sharkbites and copper.
ERCOT (being controlled by communist democrats) caused this
@@Slop_Dogg some were out as long here.
@@vogelvogeltje I am jealous as hell lmao. I am from Texas and we had our power go out for 3 days back around August for seemingly no reason. Luckily during the blizzard it only went out for like 16 hours.
I can relate to the “cats in stereo” whenever we move them in our car
Have them use their transport boxes as their normal sleeping place. Ours does. We have taken 11 hour trips with her and didn't hear as much as a meow from her. She does fart though occasionally due to the vibration, and you wouldn't believe how much stink comes out of such a small cat.
@@dschoene57 my cat’s a farter too 🤣🤣
This was a fun description.
I can 2! Moved a few years back and had to listen to that for a few hours.
@@tiffanycamacho937 cat puff strong!
I can’t believe the news didn’t warn people to shut off their water or to leave it dripping. Seems so intuitive living in Wisconsin, but not so much in Texas I guess 🤷♂️
Most mainstream news isn’t good for anything but panic, pop culture and propaganda, these days.
@@houseofgrindgaming3448 Gotta keep them sitting through those commercials to find out whether their dog's water bowl is cancer causing at 6. Honestly, as someone whose lived in Texas and now living in Indiana, I just gotta say it's a real wakeup call when you're not used to dealing with this kind of weather. I went from never having a wreck to smacking a telephone pole. Down south, we just never worried about the cold at this level. Temperatures would drop, but wouldn't stay low enough to really affect much. We're used to fighting the heat and worrying about hurricanes down there.
I shut my water off at the meter and opened up several faucets, and still had 3 pipes break. The good part for me, though: I was there when I turned the water back on, so it only took a few minutes to see the water start to drip from the ceiling - and I shut it back off. I have a section of ceiling sheetrock fall down in the kitchen. It could have been much worse.
They do.. i personally blew my outside lines out with compressed air. Youd thought Texas was in dire straits but i assure you we werent. Every time there is a natural disaster, the same shit happens. Milk, Bread, Power, Water goes away for a few days. Its not like Texas doesnt set its clocks by natural disasters.. because we do. Maybe it was Anderson Cooper standing in a meatlocker? idk.
My dripping water faucets kept freezing. They kept freezing even running at a rate faster than a drip. Had to put boiling water on the faucets to keep them running. Didn't turn off the water because we still needed to use the water throughout the day.
That's how a neighborhood should be. Helping each other when in need.
Southern hospitality and neighborliness.
I grew up around hateful, reckless, and criminal neighbors during most of my life so when I was living in a "normal" neighborhood I was upset. When hurricane Harvey came and cut off half of the block's power, the other half open their homes and were nice to me It made me sick. I quickly moved out of that place and I am now living comfortable in the factory district where there is no one else residing for a mile around me.
What a nice thought. Extend that compassion to healthcare, Texas and the rest of America could do great things.
Das communist
@@gredangeo could you imagine if "being neighborly" was made mandatory by government? If you don't go over to your neighbors at least once a month and spend an hour helping them with yard work, you go to jail? Keep the government out of being neighborly, and keep government out of healthcare.
"I'm a little bit of a prepper." Also "my hybrid car was low on both gas and electricity."
Thinking about all you folks in Texas. Wish there was more we could do.
seriously. Having extra food doesn't make you a prepper - FEMA suggests that everyone should have two weeks of food and water on hand at all times. Preppers measure their stockpiles of food in months or years, and of course have solutions for power / heat / fuel, etc. I personally have 120 gallons of gasoline on hand. Buy the ethanol free stuff, put in fuel stabilizer, and rotate the stock by filling up my cars with the old stuff first. Can get tedious, but I can always run my generator or drive where I need to go.
@@PsRohrbaugh He did say "little bit" of one. Not everyone wants to store fuel stabilizers, MREs, and water purification tablets. It's great ya memorized the FEMA page, though.
If I lived in the US I'd have a generator and UPS and water for several days.
Especially after seeing how the government "handles" a big crisis like covid. I've also been telling everyone that covid isn't a a guarantee against another crisis happening at the same time, yes you can have a pandemic AND riots AND storms AND whatever else.
Life isn't a game and the DM doesn't play fair.
@@SierraSierraFoxtrot SPOT ON! In a hundred years we've gone from "having to harvest enough crops to make it through the winter" , to "assuming that the grocery store will always be open". And for the most part, our society does an OK job. But it's not perfect, and your survival is ultimately on YOU.
Thanks!
One thing I learned this week is how much snow it takes to flush a toilet.
Survival skill level -- knowledge
Haha.. that's funny _and_ not *at all* funny at the same time. Hang in there.
Yeah, just find as many five gallon buckets as you can. Fill them up with snow and let it melt. Refill the bucket after... Repeat.
Heh heh. I had my water freeze a couple of days back and was tempted to use old aquarium water on the toilet, but luckily I got it unfrozen before that became a necessity.
Wait, your alive!
Sorry this happened. As someone whose basement has flooded half a dozen times, get dehumidifiers in there and just dry stuff out. You don't have to replace everything and likely shouldn't have to replace the drywall. It sucks, but you'll get back on your feet sooner than you think.
Same here. Our basement bloods every other year, in spring. So we have a dehumidifier otherwise it will get nasty. We bypassed the fill tank and ran the drain hose right to the sump
That is true, but you might as well take everything insurance will give you. The last thing you want is a mold problem creeping up on you later. If something like this happened to me and I had to spend my own money, though, I'd probably do what you're suggesting unless the mold had already set in.
I don't know about Texas but down here in south Florida, your walls get wet you rip everything out. If you don't, you will have walls full of black mold and serious respiratory problems.
Spray mold and mildew spray and put oil based paint.
The outside walls insulation will at least have to be fixing because it will never dry out. The inner uninsulated walls probably would be ok but may as well do them too while everything is out of the house and since insurance will cover it. Nothing more aggravating than water damage, other than smoke damage maybe.
“I don't need money and the insurance is taking care of the damage”
It suddenly struck me how honest this is in this day and age.... how many out there would have tried to take advantage of people's willingness to help.
All the best David...stay safe...
I agree.
David also mentioned in one of his previous videos as well.
He doesn't put them annoying ads in the middle of the vids like a lot of other youtubers do.
Good point. Really shows David's integrity.
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There's always one dishonest bastard in the bunch, and I'm getting the feeling it's going to be the insurance company in this case. I seriously don't think David's going to pull a fast one on the insurance company, but I've seen Louis Rossmann's videos. Insurance companies are full of crap. I hope he watches his back on this one.
Totally agree. I thought the exact same thing.
All the best to the whole family David.
We found him... The one youtuber who doesn't ask for money...
Independent Texans - we help each other out.
What about Pateron?
@@zapa47 Except for your leadership. Some say you’re on your own and others leave the country. Wishing you all the best and I hope things keep improving.
@@SurfTheWebIsPapaMemes i meant he doesn't use a tragedy to squeeze out money from followers. He said it plainly: insurance will cover it. That's A+ in my book
@@laci272 Also, he does have a Patreon, so it's basically like he's busking, only instead of free music it's free sweet tech videos, which you can chip into if you like.
Texas: Where they ruin your house and then charge you $17000 for it.
Remember in November.
Texas unbridled capitalism and let it run wild
@@veramae4098 if you think Democrats have the answer, 50,000 homeless people in skid row say otherwise
Rename Texas to Taxes.
@@sasquatchhunter86 The Dems do it better than the Republicans. We at least require regulation of utilities which forces them to build things better. Here in Colorado, with regulated utilities, the only places that lose power more than a day are the high country areas where 3 or 4 or 6 feet fall overnight. Only once in 40 years have we lost power for more than 24 hours and that was when we had a six foot snowfall in one day. Most of the time the power is back on in an hour or two even during violent storms and serious (-20F) storms.
It’s quite strange seeing Texas look like Massachusetts. I hope everything goes well for you here forth.
It’s strange too me as well. As someone who lives in Wisconsin.
@@legoman8960 Yeah, also being from Wisconsin, when I saw footage of the storm, I immediately thought, "that's it" as I see 3-4 times that much in my yard. I understand that this usually doesn't happen in Texas, but it is strange seeing that much damage when up here I have been through storms that dumped 4 times that amount and no damage was had.