The reason behind Texas' power outage

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.