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An icy blast continues to cripple parts of the US where more than 20 people have been killed amid the freezing conditions in the south.
The once-in-a-generation storm has left millions without power and three-quarters of the country blanketed in snow.
Storm warnings have been issued for the states of Oklahoma, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas and Arkansas, disrupting COVID-19 vaccination programmes there.
Al Jazeera’s Andy Gallacher reports.
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#TexasWinterStorm2021 #TexasBlackout #TexasFreeze
Sad!
Yesterday I saw news, I thought i would have died from that cold but wasn’t sure if i was dramatic not now I see i really would have died from cold, cause I freeze in 16 degrees above zero with so many layers warm clothes
minus 16 😀
@jack lal 😉 really I’m under blankets all the time in 20 degrees above zero and still shiver 🤭😬
Only pray so God can make a concrete plan, jesus protect America
Oh, I guess if you’re praying that the power comes back on, then everything is sorted. The engineers and maintenance workers can go home, they’re no longer needed. Faith is going to fix those those power lines! Wait for it….
Aaaaaaany minute now…
@Momon God bless,
Three countries USA, Israel and India are going to be destroyed very soon
@lobsang dorjee Because they left Quran for hadith, like the followers of Moses who left Torah for Misnah(oral Torah).
we probably won’t go down without a big bang
@John Mitchell you will go down with or without a bang,it is predicted
The best democracy in the world is in INDIA only. We are happily living in this great INDIAN DEMOCRACY with full of religious freedom…I am a CHRISTIAN living happily..I am proud to be INDIAN.
@lobsang dorjee I told you Iraq, Yemen,and Afghanistan are not following Islam as is required of them
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😢🙏🙏🙏😞
the curse of the afghans thats how the british empire the soviet empire broke down time for the american empire to break down
This is a new level of stupid in the comment section.
They don’t have power because the state governor didn’t connect them from the national grid
@TJ Marx Lol!!😂
@Ken Fu The Babylon is falling to pieces. Lmao. And there nothing they can do about it. 😂😂😂
@Fakey Namey You think your empire is the greatest and they even control the ocean? How come they can’t handle COVID-19? Your country is a joke.
In Russia , it a Thursday
Amazing
Russia is another piece of s***.
It never ceases to amaze me how frequently and in such a vast array of scenarios, that the USA experiences rolling blackouts like a third world country. And yet, still claims to be great.
Yeah that’s not anything near true@ozen to shama. It happens in the USA because it was never all that great to begin with.
lol@TheMrgoodmanners no it isn’t.
No@Manuel Lopes the USA hasn’t led in “all aspects of social and technical development”. That’s complete nonsense
Most of the western world is vastly superior to the USA@Serenity
The US military didn’t win WW2@George Petersen, that was Russia.
The US military haven’t won a military conflict since the US civil war and that was a bit touch and go.
The fact of the matter is China is expanding their military at a rate 5x faster annually than the USA.
I hope you have this equipment portable electro power …10watts enough for 1house hold…its a indoor design and for climate change(any weather)more than 10 watts you just series parallel how wattage to provide(wire tapping) may God protect, provide what you need and Gobless us all🤧😇
It is china planned this.
Biden proved unlucky for America
Bro that global warming….
Such a dumb country I love it
Consider what your saying. People are suffering and dying from the cold, including small children.
REPENT or it will come back on you and yours.
Which one yours.
@John Mitchell don’t vote for them 😀
@jack lal It’s Deeper Than A Vote
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What’s so funny??
@philip john 🤣🤣🤣
YOU HAVE JUST MADE THIS COME UPON YOURSELF AND YOU WILL NOT BE LAUGHING, REPENT
@ozen to shama 🤣🤣🤣
After that some country and people tell about Global Warming.
The correct term is climate change
USA is like a 3 world country . your goverment spend only money on the rich ppl and the army
USA doesn’t have a welfare system for the poor?
Madarchod news
indian miner are u mad?
Luke 21:25-27(KJV) And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
Watch my video about the tribulation
Alternate source of energy ……. what is known to men ?
Yet to find such energy
Future holds the answers
Nuclear energy is what I heard would be the best alternative to fossil fuel.
Cause kaboom.. That’s why.
That’s why we need to go back to the old ways, migrate with the weather; have less to travel faster.
This is to be expected after years of Green Party BS in the face of a Grand Solar Minimum which happens every 12,000 years. Many Politicians made money while preparing our country for greater warmth, when in fact we have greater cooling coming and this is just the beginning. as usual, the government apparat chics failed us.
Super power is human term but know that there is God our Greater.
Its a matter of opinion your comment.
America did lots of evils around the world.
Punishment from heaven.
Most countries around the world has been part of evil stories. The countries that dogmatically believe in God has committed so much more wrongdoings than the USA, but you wouldn’t recognize that, right?
Sad to see but reminder to USA PEOPLE… THIER LEADER needs to sign global environment submit. Which is called Paris climate
@Rita Gameiro Without any effort how can u say won’t help? Need to sign and do what is necessary…😎😎
@Apao yes but the effort of some will be nothing if a group is authorized to polute. The math in the end is more polution with or without the deal. That’s my isue.
@Rita Gameiro something’s is better than nothing. Is it 100% damage better than 60% Damage?. That’s my point
@Apao in the case of pollution the best way to compare is: will 60% poison kill you less than 100% poison? That’s why I think deal no deal it’s the same: the poison is killing us and it should be no poison at all.
@Rita Gameiro no it’s different from posion. But as ur compare remember if posion is only 60% we have more time which means we have more care cure than been posion 100% which you will die on spot 😭😭😭.
We need more warming… global warming.
Oh wait!! The Arctic IS warming, the world’s tundra is thawing.
The only solution is to refreeze the Arctic.
The oceans are dying, as they die we die. Good to be 73 and watch this end-game.
Thoughts and prayers don’t matter, the science does… have a good day.
IM just Glad I didn’t reproduce in more ways then one
WELCOME TO GLOBAL WARMING AMERICA! AND THIS WILL ONLY GET WORSE IN THE FUTUTRE!
You mean global freezing??
They didn’t understand what you said. Lol
@Le Rédacteur yeah I know but still it doesn’t affect the freezing weather
Faints
@Le Rédacteur what?
Make America Great Again
How about seek Gods kingdom for the sake of your soul? America is a sinking ship as is with the rest of the world. What you are proposing is like trying to sweep the floors of a sinking ship.
Lol when was that it was great to begin with?
@Junior SIr It was a Joke
John Mitchell so you were kidding about making Americana great?
@Junior SIr IM sorry you miss understood the it was a joke
America has finally achieved 3rd World status! The sheep worry about the wolf, it’s the shepherd that will slaughter them. Have you woken from your American Dream yet!
Texas sucks – it’s sad people are freezing to death. This is what happens when evil people use abortion issues to spin reality into office and not care about people actually living there.
Gotta wonder after this deep freeze how many people still in deny of climate change. Profit before fact.
The extra storm for people who did’t the function of God Theology.
Liars…. My city gets the most snow in USA… There is alot of prooof. andddd no one has died yet….not from a car crash, Not from being stuck outside…nothing. Is lying fun for u guys or is it every lie u tell u get extra money???
But you’ve had time to prepare decades in fact. Shame on the Texas Political group
@ree xree I looked it up, it happened in 1967, 1995, 2011, and now 2021. Also after all these dates the following hurricane season was Extra Extra bad as far as tornadoes, 20 in 1 day in June 1995. But this time your getting 4x the snow and its wY more wide spread compared to all previous years which means 50 to 100 tornadoes could spawn in 1 day this coming June – October. Texans and will not be warned of this upcoming tragic event and I can only try and warn you from data from the past. In my opinion I would leave the area this hurricane season to return at a later 📅
@L0CKTiTE Thank You For The Information
@ree xree At the time, greatest snowfall in a 24 hour period – 19.8 inches January 26-27, 1967 (surpassed by Groundhog Day Blizzard 1/31-2/2/11: 20.0 inches February 1-2, 2011). At the time, greatest snow depth – Additional snows brought the snow depth to 27 inches by February 6, 1967.
Sixty-seven tornados occurred on Sept. 20, a Texas record for a single day. In addition to Hurricane Beulah’s 115 tornadoes, there were another 9 tornadoes in September for a total of 124, which is a Texas record for a single month. The greatest number of tornadoes in Texas in a single year is 232, also in 1967.
I just did 1967 to give you an 💡
@L0CKTiTE Thank You Very Much For Telling Me, I Would’ve Never Known About That!
@ree xree warn as many people as possible this year especially.
Take care folks!
Can someone please explain me why does this happen in winter is it because generators won’t in cold weather or what please reply
It’s Texas, man. Temperatures barely scratched freezing point during harshest of winters there. It’s the coldest it ever got in thirty years at least, and not overnight as a lowest detected, but for days and days straight. The infrastructure – powerlines, waterways, supply chains etc. are not designed to withstand such conditions. If it was Canada or some of the northernmost states, they’d just shake it off and call it a Thursday.
@Enrico Fermi Thank. You so much for the reply
Cyberattack?
I pray for you all America you are always in my daily prayers n in my heart . Love you all . Love from Nepal. ❤❤
Thank you!
This does not mean i want you here
stay in your country. Hope you are safe.
@keep typing For your kind info , I never wish to live in any countries than my own . I wrote that my daily prayers are with other countries facing troubles especially for America now. God bless those in need now.
@keep typing racist
@I Can’t Breathe I am not racist .
Why every home needs 2-3 sources of heat, generators wood stoves. In BC we might lose it all for up to 7 days, large bottled water stored.
The solar panels froze and that was one reason for the power outage, so explain to me why we’re talking about “other sources” of energy? Anything to make it political when the truth is Texans in a blizzard are like fish out of water, it’s not their fault. The same chaos happened in Atlanta a few years ago when they got like 2 inches of snow.
Alternative Energy wasn’t being stored in a battery bank for back up power. They were simply using it as they produced it without storing extra. No states have the battery storage infrastructure built for backup power yet! We need to focus on that so this never happens again.
And panels don’t freeze, they get covered with snow and ice so it takes man power to keep them clear, whiçh they also failed to do.
But guaranteed, there are many Survival preppers who are sitting comfortable right now through this. They have solar or wind power at their homes. And water stored. And they have heat.
Its wise to be always prepared.
Where is that evil “socialism” when you need it?…LOL. Texas Senator Ted Cruz left for Cancun, Mexico…and is now on his way back to Texas since it was leaked to the press. This is today’s Republican Party. Wow. I know Biden sucks too but wow…
Texas doesn’t like government regulations…..and that has consequences.
Actually ERCOT the ones responsible for the energy grid is to blame even after they were told to upgrade the grid for winterizing, for the cables components, generators, training ect. They were told to do so by the Texas government back in 2011 but they didn’t so that is why we are having problems that is why wind turbines (which Texas is the biggest wind energy production) are having problems. It has nothing to do with Federal regulations but with ERCOT cutting corners and not doing what is what the TEXAS Government told them to do.
@KoalaTeaShot
You: “They were told to do so by the Texas government back in 2011 but they didn’t so that is why we are having problems”
Well…I hate to tell you…but the government’s job is to enforce the law.
If ERCOT failed to do their job…and government officials refused to hold them accountable …..that is on government.
That’s how it all works.
That’s why we have a government.
@David Leo MorleyThe “government” already addressed that “The Texas Supreme Court is considering whether ERCOT, a private, nonprofit corporation, is entitled to its sovereign immunity, a well-established legal principle that protects governments and their agencies from lawsuits. The high court’s decision, expected later this year, could determine whether electricity buyers and sellers can hold the grid manager responsible for pricing errors, mistake-ridden forecasts or life-and-death consequences of power outages.” Sounds like the government f*** up. Your whole thing about Texas doesn’t like government regulations is BS if the government itself isn’t doing anything
@KoalaTeaShot
You: “Sounds like the government f*** up. Your whole thing about Texas doesn’t like government regulations is BS if the government itself isn’t doing anything”
You are confused.
That IS the point…and you helped me to make it.
Private industry wants Texas government contracts WITHOUT liability and government regulations…and the state of Texas and its own elected officials gave it to them… and now they are refusing to hold them accountable.
That actually confirms my whole point about Texas not liking US government regulations.
They created their whole power grid separately from the rest of the USA’s power grid….just to avoid government regulations…. because they don’t like government regulations.
If Texas liked government regulations, ERCOT would have been regulated by the government and held accountable by government officials when they failed to do their job.
Pretty simple.
AMERICA infrastructure is failing…but due to greedy. The mass population will surfer the most. The riches country in the world act and look like 3rd world country. America doesn’t want to move forward always want to go backward. The world move forward from energy to new technologies while AMERICA fail from covid to natural disaster. Texas still built house made of wood instead of concrete or stone or granite. Oklahoma home still not built to with stand tornado.
this what happens when 90% of tax goes all into military.
These people are lying. I grew up in India where Power Grid failures were common. What happens is when wind mills fail and the power from wind farms supply gets turned off, as the demand keeps increasing due to heating requirements, the demand and supply mismatch grows to an unsustainable level till the whole grid fails. Once the grid fails even coal and gas fired plants shut down and its not possible to bring them up fast. So although only a third of power may come from Green Deal, it is the wind farms that triggered this whole thing and it is those who promote this who should be blamed for this and those who vote for them are responsible for dead people. Democrats do this for money.
Bidens America LMAO
Trump was better lol
Ice, snow now earth quake in Texas. Stock up be prepare for coming days ahead.
mexicocaine 😀
Tesla house and Tesla car ?
Texas is out of electricity for 3 days afaik. Your Tesla Model X would’ve been a fancy junk.
Hi Robert
All that money behind you, and too stupid to know how to keep warm.
I love it.
– A very comfortable very warm off grid RV guy
It’s an artic clipper in a state then doesn’t get them.
That’s all it is.
People looking to blame someone are being obtuse.
We here in Texas will learn from our mistakes so it doesn’t happen again.
If you don’t live here and want to judge then don’t bother because we don’t care.
Thanks to all the supportive folks out there.
any other streaming video sites ads on youtube can’t be skip now
In the north-east Europe it would be like usual day when it is snowing and freezing cold weather here. We have here a temperature 14 F (daytime) and 5-7 F (at nighttime). No problem.
Repent for the wrath of the Most High is upon us
He’s always upon us.
@Evelyn Miranda so what 🐕
Enjoy your global warming and Tesla. All climate refugees welcome to Sweden. Free money for everyone.
sweden has no indian latino problem
thats why you should build your house with concrete blocks
the californians that moved here caused this
lmao the dumbest comment I’ve seen on youtube.
@Andres Torres Aquino thanks
I’m sure San Francisco is looking good about now.
USA is internally and externally coming apart thread by thread. It won’t be long.
The US is basically a third world country with nukes and an overbloated military. Look at Covid deaths per capita in the US. It is actually doing worse than most third world countries.
I don’t know why people say stupid comments there’re children that are dying.
So do the children in the Middle East
Company called Griddy Electric charging 1,000.00 a day for power!!!!!! Just got bill for over 2,000.00 and counting….
At least it’s not a hoax by China
Talk about a attack on Americans 1st covid now this ..prayers 2 all under Gods umbrella 🙏😪
If Trump is still the president it will be kungcold or chinasnow or wuhanice. Strange that this doesn’t happen to China unless it is the most northern part. You can’t say that God is not a God of justice who don’t hear the blood of those murdered around world screaming out from the ground. Those Iraqis, those Afghanistan’s, those Libyans, those Syrians, those Yemenis, those Iranians, those Central American’s, those Koreans, those Vietnamese and all those souls mass murdered after WW2.
Cursed nation
JUDGEMENT STARTS HERE WAIT UNTIL IT HITS YOURS,
Better news than the American MSM. Awesome work. I have always appreciated aljazeera news.
Their military and mercenaries are occupying the world when their service are needed home
Lol. You’re just a liberal troll. What does that military has to do with this snowflakes. Maybe we should not have to get rid of fossil fuels so blackout doesn’t happen. Guess ur nit smart enough to think outside of the box
Bush family live there unless they abandoned the place since the blackout
As long as the Stockmarket is up is all that matter in America!!
it’s god’s punishment for letting trump get away with murder
It’s okay…The Democratic States of America used to be the world’s number one pollutant and the most badass, hardcore country which ended on 01/24/2021 when our superhuman, basement superstar became our 46th president and he will fix global warming and make DSA Number 1…i’m writting this from marshfield, wisconsin after we had a full week on snow and -33 temps
Texas could always use them “coyotes” or “kids in cages” to operatate pedal bikes which generate electricity…I’m sure theres enough of them to power the entire state…
Haarp system in use, that these demons created.
In iceland we call this monday
Wait wait, she was an “old woman”..a “grandma” at 41?!! Thats not old! Thats not even middle aged! My mother had my brother at 41!
The government fails, the civilians take the consequences. Disgusting in how such a rich country has such poor safety!