Record low temperatures have left over 4 million Texas residents with no power — a deadly issue that's actually man-made... Here's why.
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00:00No, no!
00:02No!
00:04No!
00:06No!
00:08Hopefully the power comes back on soon.
00:10Because people are cold.
00:12It's freezing inside this house.
00:14It's freezing inside this house.
00:30We realized we have no Wi-Fi, no nothing, no internet.
00:37But everybody needed to eat.
00:39We had our camping stove out on the stove.
00:43And tried to be as safe as possible.
00:56We're starting to see an uptick in patients here.
00:58Even at Moral Hermit Cypress for possible carbon monoxide exposure.
01:02Our wind and our solar got shut down.
01:30And they were collectively more than 10% of our power grid.
01:34Because we deregulated some years ago.
02:02So energy is less controlled by the government.
02:05We've been hit hard by nature this week.
02:08But we can't deny that some of this is a man-made disaster as well.
02:13And the 5 million residents of this county and really this region and this state.
02:18Will deserve answers from ERCA and the state once this is over.