Texas Snowstorm February 2021

From February 14th-19th, Texas endured a winter storm unlike anything we've seen in a very long time. In fact, it was the first time in over a century that all 254 counties in the state had been under a winter storm advisory.
During the storm, the power grid failed, leaving millions in the dark. Water pipes froze, and burst, damaging thousands of homes and businesses. I was rather lucky, in that I had no damage, but I did go without power for 62 hours, and then without water for a little over 2 days.
I shot all of this on third day that I was without power. Didn't have much juice in the batteries of my cameras but I made it work. Just now getting around to posting the clips.
Shot on an Insta360 ONE X & GoPro Hero 7 Black

[@petterin1]

Wow what a surprise!

[@TrickiVicBB71]

Just skimming over the video. Didn't know you lived in Texas. Good to hear you are still alive.
I have TikTok and saw many videos of people losing their homes to the burst pipes and a number of people passed away in the cold.
I am more disgusted by how everyone mocked and insulted Texans for what was happening.

[@JimmySlaughter]

Thanks! Before this storm, most people here(and everywhere else) had no idea that Texas was on it's own power grid. The impacts of a rare weather event immediately became political. Fortunately, since I didn't have power, I wasn't able to spend much time on the internet that week. I missed out on the majority of tweets that said I deserved to freeze in my darkened home because of who the majority in my state voted for.

[@dcieee7088]

Wow. A winter wonderland. Is this near Plano?

[@JimmySlaughter]

Plano probably looked similar, but this was in the Mid-Cities HEB area.

[@dcieee7088]

HEB = Hurst, Euless, and Bedford. OK