This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.

A little more than a year ago, in February of 2021, it was snowing in Austin,

Texas, which is unusual.

So this is the beginning,

or it might be a historic winter storm here in Austin.

I love this.

I mean I was psyched. It was snowing like really snowing in Austin and that just it doesn't happen much here.

Mose Buechell is a reporter at K-U-T the local public radio station in Austin, Texas.

You know I just wanted to get out and document this storm as much as I could.

But then there's this moment in the tape that,

I mean, it still gives me chills when I listen back to.

Big question for a lot of people right now

is whether the electric grid is going to hold up.

If you remember the news from Texas, the grid did not hold up.

It went down pretty much all over the state. Millions lost power for days, some in houses

not built to withstand freezing temperatures. According to at least one estimate, more

than 800 people died.

I am so fucking heated y'all.

Greg Abbott, what the fuck are you going to do about this power grid?

See all these headlights?

You see all these people?

These are people that have had no electricity for 13 hours and they don't have anywhere else to go.

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