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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

News, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

A historic snow storm brought Texas to its knees this week, and the Highwire team has not been spared. But the rolling blackouts, unsafe roads, water damage, gas and food shortages that affected the entire state couldn’t keep us from our mission. It does make us wonder though, was this disaster even natural?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Well, as you can tell, we have a little bit of a different set today.

0:04.8

In fact, we are very stripped down in our approach to the high wire.

0:09.5

This is due to the fact that we are broadcasting from Texas, where we are still under what has

0:14.5

now been a week long winter storm, ice storm.

0:20.5

There it is, millions of Texas without power.

0:22.3

Is deadly storm brings snow, freezing weather.

0:26.0

The reports are that 4.4 million people lost their power in Texas.

0:31.4

There is currently 3 million people still without power as we are speaking.

0:36.7

12 million people in Texas are facing problems with their water.

0:41.5

There are 7 million people right now that are under a boil your water advisory because

0:47.0

I guess issues with the water treatment plants and over a quarter of a million people are

0:52.5

without all water completely.

0:55.9

In case you didn't see it in the headlines where you are at, this is what Texas looked

1:00.3

like in the news.

1:01.9

Dangerous weather system wreaking havoc the worst Texas winter storm in years.

1:07.3

All of the largest cities in Texas have been hammered by snow and ice.

1:11.4

The National Weather Service has issued a hard freeze warning.

1:14.2

The concern right now are these rolling outages.

1:17.2

Millions of Texans are in their homes without power.

1:21.3

For 4 million people have already lost electricity across the south mostly in Texas where an ice

1:27.2

storm and bitter cold have forced rolling blackouts.

1:30.9

The state's energy authority instituted rolling blackouts across its 254 counties to prevent

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