When Ted Cruz tweeted “I’ll believe in climate change when Texas freezes over” so... *about that*

as a Canadian I just want to make the statement that Texas stole our snow

As a Texan who has never seen snow and is to stupid to check the weather regularly before you can imagine my confusion at waking up and seeing my entire yard covered in it.

My friends owe me money. We made a bet that in my life time texas would not freeze over, well, looks like I won.

As a Texan I volunteer the name "the great freeze of 21".

I feel sorry for the fish now. I hadn't thought of it freezing people's pets.

there once was a saying: "snowflakes wouldn't last long in texas" oh how the turntables

My friend told me that the livestock got it the worst, when his family’s horses drank from their water it’d freeze to their chin 😕

as a texan, i can confirm that this week SUCKED.

At least my palace is nice and warm during this brutal winter

So many people in my pet groups on FB have been talking about their animals (mostly reptiles and fish, but I’ve seen one about an elder cat also) dying in the cold and power outages. Its heartbreaking. One woman said she kept her snake in a pillowcase under her shirt for 30+ hours just to keep it warm enough to survive

Update from texas: we have power but no food

I'm a northener and at first I thought it was a joke, that it's just a "little snow." Then I learned it's not a joke and some people are actually dying and many others are without power or even food. They weren't prepared for it, their houses certaintly weren't and the people definitely weren't. Some don't even know how to deal with it, or how to even properly walk on black ice (the ice that's hard to see) or how to wear warm clothes. (some don't even have any since it's texas) I hope any Texans watching this are okay, jeez..

As a texan I can confirm texas is on some SERIOUS shit right now, every time i sneeze, 15 more icicles appear on my house.

Hi girl from the Navajo reservation here, I can offer a few tips from my own experiences. •Block your windows at night when it gets windy. If you don't have good insulation there's a huge chance that there will be hella strong winds and your room will get drafty so cover up your windows at night to help block that. •Make sure your neck is covered and kept warm especially the little ones. You have to keep your internal temperature constant, if this drops that means hypothermia. •Set your bed away from the direction of your window. Keep your bed at the wall furthest from your window so wind will hit you less Like I said it can get hella drafty. It won't be warmer but at least it won't be breezy. •Collect dry sticks, leaves, use paper and other items when starting a fire but don't do it in the house. Be careful when forging because there are laws that prevent people from forging and collecting wood. These laws were to stop Black and Indigenous folks from getting stuff they need so be careful when doing this. •Cover up windows with bed sheets, pillow cases, basically any thin fabrics. We do this a lot on the rez since most people don't even buy curtain, we just use blankets and stuff. This actually helps and again it's even better with boxes and cabinets blocking said windows to prevent wind from coming into the house. •I know it's too cold to bathe yourself so wash your hair like twice a week and make sure you wash only your genitals, armpits and buttocks. I live in an area where there is no running water or electricity so this is a common practice during the winter. •Collect clean fresh snow and boil it by using a fire for fresh clean water. In Navajo January is translated to, "Fried Snow." Again be careful when doing this make sure the snow is white, clean, and fresh so you can melt it but I still suggest boiling it if you can. These are just some things I can think of at the top of my head. This is a sort of normal winter on the reservation for many families and these are things that I find normal that I hope help.

Russians having flashbacks watching the state texas is in.

the reflection of his computer in his glasses look like some kinda weird pupils

When I say that we’re so egotistical that everyone thought we’d be unaffected and be fine... how do we handle hurricanes better than this

A huge factor in what's making it so bad is that buildings in Texas aren't built ready for nearly this amount of snow, since it's Texas. Compound that with the fact that this would be crazy amounts of snow even in Maine or Minnesota, and this is a recipe for disaster. Edit: It was mostly the architecture being vastly not prepared at all for this. The lowest temperatures didn't go below 0 Fahrenheit, and the snow didn't go anywhere above half a foot. It's still a disaster, but not one entirely caused by the weather.

My home didn’t get any pipe bursts but we had rolling outages that sucked. I know there were many people in worse situations and my heart goes out to them.

The only thing I'm upset about is that there was a lot of snow and I couldn't really play in it due to no power at all.

"Only the strong will survive"

Scared of having shoes & says he is gonna keep his toes out Me thinking you were just a floating hoodie 😳

He told the camera “if your in the affected areas rn stay safe” little does he know they have no power so they can’t watch 😭

Lmao yeah us Texans ain’t having the best of times rn

I took a bath using buckets and boiling water for three days now, send help

I’m from Texas and we were not prepared for this at all no one in my family even owns a winter coat 😭😭

Oh I didn’t realize it was this bad. Yeah it’s hella cold here but wow. The worst thing about it is I can’t get fried chicken. And no heat and water but my chicken....

The texas memes are gonna hit different now

2:44 thanks for the new pokemon idea

As a Texan I can tell you that yes. It is wild right now

I remember being in a call was with some friends of mine from Europe and being like "holy shit I've got long term snow in my yard this hasn't happened since I was 9" and my swedish friend just went "give me a second" and sent me a picture of his door being completely under the snow

I mean it is like living in Hell Hell, Michigan is a city Along with Gaylord

2:37 the shoe’s gonna come back with a branch in its teeth as a sign of far away paradise.

As someone who lived in Texas when this happened, I want you to know that in our area we called it “Snowmaggeddon” and it was actually the first time I ever got to build a snowman

I’m from the Dallas area and my power and heat went out at 3:30 Monday morning. I got it back Thursday night at around 10. Our pipes luckily didn’t burst. But hundreds of thousands of other Texans aren’t as lucky as me with water shortages and homes being destroyed by water damage from pipes bursting.

I'm starting to think that people from Texas are otherworldly

Me a texan waiting for when i can stop living though major events

as a texan i can confirm this rocked our shit i lived up north for much of my life so it took me by suprise how absolute dogshit their cold weather prep is

yknow i didnt realize how intense our snow was till everyone was flipping out about it and my friends mom said we were making history

My mother's mother has three Huskys and I have no idea how they survive the summers.

Those of you who are really suffering in this storm, I wish you all the best! You are all strong people! I know we can get through this!

glad the shoe tiktok was on his fyp too

As a Texan I can say that not all the ice has melted I still see ice in my back yard

Bruh it is so crazy here!! I know a lot of ppl are making fun of us or we joke about it. But yes we aren’t prepared for the ice cold from up north 😂😂

As a New Englander who gets snow regularly in the winter watching people from Texas see snow and not know what to with it is so funny to me

kwite: Or at least South Dakota Also kwite: goes to Montana

As a Texan I can safely say yes, we are living in a Skyrim modern

As an update 5 days later snow is gone and its hot af, texas and its bipolar weather lookin ass got me fucked up I hate it here😌

Bruh this is literally no joke the amount of snow we get in Minnesota every year 💀

As a Texan I can confirm that this storm hit a lot of people hard. Our house lost power for 48 hours and a lot of people were using flame throwers to melt the ice in their stock tanks to keep their livestock alive.

As another Texan in the comments, I can confirm it was terrifying. I've seen snow before here, but this is probably the worst it's been. Hell, I still have a photo of the HUGE fucking icicle that was hanging from my roof.

2:24 Dustin, I can’t do this anymore. I’m signing the divorce.

I live in Texas and trust me most of us are slowly going more and more insane without power and water me included

well, i just saw this video, and as someone who went through the storm without any damage to the house, my body, or my sanity... this was something

Uhhh why did I not see this sooner...as a Texan I can say that that week was freakin crazy, thankfully my family and I weren’t badly affected by it and it just showed that our governor sucks 😀

It’s funny Texas and other southern places are getting a snow storm but like Georgia and Florida got nothing but rain

“Poop leaves my body without permission”

As a Canadian, I can say this is almost what our winters are like throughout the year (Note, they don't get this cold & bad) but it is what it's like. Btw, good on you Kwite for doing your best in this situation, and making us laugh.

Man said send the dog to South Dakota and appeared on Montana, a true geographic genius

I live in El Paso, Texas and we were bearly affected by the storm because of experience and preparation for an event like this. El Paso strong! 🌟

"send it to South Dakota" Kwite: shows Montana

I always thought of Texas as the “yee haw” state, not those “nuclear winter” state

As a South Dakotan it's funny to see how Texas delt with what we consider "a little cold". Sad that people died tho.

I've literally been hearing about people froze to death, and have been without power and water for a few days. Had to go to my other family. Glad it's warming up.

when people are kind and thoughtful towards us in this state emergency it means a lot :)

Can confirm I live in texas. No power for like 42 hours lol

I'm over in Denton and the power hasn't went off since Tuesday at like 2:30. Water's fine too, so I guess I'm really lucky.

5:40 bro he ate the yellow batches of snow! big bruh moment

I moved from Tennessee to Texas and I was surprised how people reacted to a snowstorm. We got snow all the time so it wasn’t new to me. It’s so wild that some of them didn’t know what black ice was lol

Texan here and man it was nuts. I work at a grocery store and the week leading up, during ,and after was INSANE. I managed to be able to work earlier that week and it fell on like Valentines day. I didn't live too far from work at the time so I went in at like 4 in the morning. We had call out after call out with customers just flooding the store. Which I got but at a point it was chaos cause we barely got workers in the store and limits on items. Then the second half of the week my family luckily had a fireplace ( but not water or power) and nice neighbors who we shared stuff with ( we gave them extra wood cause they had kids and older family while they let us use their cooker since it was three of us). Once the storm was over and I could go back to work it was awful! The pluming didn't work so no bathrooms for anyone, people still couldn't get to work, and there was barely anything in the store cause trucks couldn't come in so we had no stock and customers were turds. People just could not wrap their heads around us saying " You can't get that many because we only have so much and other people need them too."

I love how he didn't bring in politics, and completely blame Texas

Im from Texas, and its the first time I've seen those pointy ice things See how I don't know what they're even called

i just now realized that Kwite looks like hed fit as a fnf character

Man this was weird. As a Texan I had never seen snow like that. I walked outside on day and everything was white, and when I tell you I SCREAMED. My dad convinced me and my brother that snow was like a slip and slide, so me and him basically just fell into the snow and came up yelling. We didn’t have power for 9 days, and I remember me and my siblings all having to sleep in the same bed to conserve heat

I may live in New York, but I do wish everyone who got affected the better to come! 💜💜💜

All the people in Texas are looking for some fur armor with %15 increased to ice damage

Alright. Imma be honest here. Getting a bowl (obviously a clean one) from outside after it snows and mixing it with vanilla extract, is what I like to call "Snow Cream". Exactly like ice cream, just made with snow. Best damn substitute for ice cream ever.

in texas people are dying rn and you guys up north are saying we’re overreacting.

I am in Oregon and I haven't had electricity for about a week and a half but I'm thankful for that being the only problem

I’m in Texas... yeah, we’re screwed.

4:54 he just vibin do

‘Send that husky to South Dakota’ highlights Montana on map, lol.

imagine the snow in the bucket just melts

As a foreigner living in a tropical island where storms are as common as seeing shit on the toilet. Imagine my surprise when i learn texas can snow, SHIT i though that place was a desert

As a New Yorker I would like to send my hopes & wishes to you southern folk smh I always tell ppl unforeseen occurrences befall us all & empathy is from me to y’all

"The pink insulation around the hole does kinda make it look a little bit like the shape of my facemask" lmao

Im from Texas and I’m counting myself lucky I didn’t lose my power

God said “oh you don’t wanna social distance and take this pandemic seriously? you don’t wanna take care of the earth? icy time out for you!”

The only good thing that came out of this was the memes. Had me cracking up in my dark and cold house 😂

crazy times here in texas. thanks for all the well wishes

my school got canceled for week because we had no water. It wasn’t a good idea to have hundreds of kids who can’t stop themselves from stuffing paper towels down the bowl.

We were struggling with that snow bruh lmao shout out Austin we still need gasoline and other stuff that’s imported into Texas

D-d-did you just call Montana South Dakota? *punches air in South Dakota*

As a Texan I can say the snow makes me scared at night

Now you guys understand what it's like to see this every winter

We just got running water back! It's been off since Monday!

I'm stuck in Utah bc I have gotten 5 flights canceled

ayo this video was hilarious! and the editing is too good 😂

As a previous-texan, this shit was horrible. We literally had to boil our water (because the pipes burst), zero internet, and some of us didnt have heat or power. My uncle was left without heat for 4 weeks. My family and I basically ran out of good food (because we couldnt go outside) and had to eat canned stuff like cold beans and at one point stale sour cream chips