Texas in Crisis - My house is ruined!

My house flooded last year from a broken faucet. I feel your pain. Hope you can return back to normal as soon as possible but I'm guessing construction work will get delayed from all the demand. I was overdue to join your Patreon anyway...so here is hoping my little bit helps! Stay safe.

Sorry David. I wish this wasn’t happening to you. Try not to see it as a setback. You have a opportunity to make some content about the rebuilding. Maybe you can even add some Ethernet jacks at the same time. Nice to see the new studio is alright. Are electric car range capacities diminished in cold weather? We had a day up here at -22 Celsius, driving to work, the inside of my car windows frosted over. Hopefully, it’s all good from here on out. Stay safe.

Saw your video today and have been watching you for a while now. I too am in Texas, but we were lucky so I thought I'd give back what I could to someone I 'know'. Glad you, your family, and your fur babies are ok. Good luck on your rebuild.

All our prayers and all the best to you and your family during this trying time

So sorry to hear the bad news. Wishing you all the best.

*virtual hugs* o.o

That is absolutely terrible man! Geeze what a mess! Sorry you have to go through all that. You just went through a whole round of contractors too with the new studio. I'm glad your office and your mom's place weren't too affected. I remember growing up in TN they'd tell us to leave the water dripping on the super cold weeks. It's easy to forget though and I've had pipes freeze in Cincinnati (luckily nothing burst though). Don't worry about keeping up with videos; take the time you need. I'll keep my support coming, or keep showing us the restoration process .. people will be interested. Hope your insurance doesn't try to flake and your out-of-pocket stays low. Hopefully in a few months this will just be a memory and just another thing you over came. Much love, good vibes and thoughts going your way.

So sorry for your misfortune! Best wishes.

Hi. When they cut out the drywall, get the outside water taps upgraded to frost free ones and upgrade the insulation around those water pipes. You probably have another outdoor water tap on the back of the house, upgrade that one too.

I am truly sorry about the utterly unusual weather conditions in your neck of the woods at this time and am right glad that you and your family are ok, and that things will get fixed up. Moving back onto retro things, I spent a fair amount of time today dealing with 2 perverse bugs in my Atari software sprite "Space Invaders" game - 1) Thou shalt not forget to CLC under certain circumstances because frankly bizarre things will happen - it happened in the invader software sprite bomb drop subroutine, and was unnoticed unless the player's attempt to shoot a hardware missle was called...very weird. 2) When trying to detect a space invader hit using a bounding box, I was fool enough to rely upon BVC instead of BMI...

Allow me to join the chorus of people who should have joined your Patreon a long time ago, but did so today. I enjoy your content, wishing you and your family the best (along with all your neighbors in TX)!!!

Saw the video and became a patron as well! Should have done this long ago sorry!

Just seen the video on YT, and I have become a patreon. Wish you the best!

I’m sure I speak for all of your UK fans in wishing you all the best ❤️

So sorry to hear that... It seems like about the first 30 to 40 of my winters here in Denmark began around November-December and lasted well into February-March. Sure, some years were colder and had more snow than others. But for the last 10 years or so it has felt to me like the seasons have slowly shifted forward a couple of months. Or more accurately like summer and autumn have been extended and winter and spring compressed down to around a month or a few weeks each. This year I had begun to make a sort of nervous joke, that maybe we should adopt the Chinese New Year and then move the holidays forward along with it. Just to increase the chance of getting a white Christmas in the future. But then watching this, whatever is even slightly funny about that... instantly goes stale. You’re right about the news sugar-coating it. I would even go as far as to say that they are trivializing it over here. I’ll be wishing the best for you, your family, and everybody around you.

Wow, David, so sorry for the damage to your house. Thanks for the update video. It was interesting to see first hand reporting from the Texas winter weather.

Uh, that's bad luck... My father had once a flood in his office only (also a frozen water pipe), I had it in the kitchen in the previous apartment (broken boiler from the neighbours upstairs), but it must really suck if the whole house is flooded... Wish you good luck in restoring everything, yes, videos can wait, take care!

Glad you and your family are doing okay. Best wishes for things to improve for y'all down there!

I was thinking about how they sprayed the insulation foam into the walls of your new filming room. I wonder if the building codes requiring that are more tolerant to protect the pipes in the walls from extreme cold conditions. If the pipes are completely enclosed in foam insulation. I was glad to hear the insurance would pay to fix it. I'm glad the neighbors are pulling together to work through it too. :)

How awful :(. Sending all the happy vibes we can muster

Prayers to you and your family!

Thanks for the video. Lots of my coworkers live in the Dallas area and were also affected. Seems pretty bad.

I'm shocked that insurance companies aren't backing out of everything, "act of God", etc. As far as your entertaining videos, take whatever time you need to take care of yourself, your family and your home...and the cats, of course! We'll all still be here for you!

Sorry to see all the damage this has caused and of course all the hassle it has/will bring. Hope you are able to get a speedy payout from your insurers and everything is put right asap. Glad to see all you collectables survived.

Last week here in North Macedonia we experienced the biggest snowstorm in years, with temperatures going as low as -25°C. Luckily we've passed it without any problems. Im so sorry to hear about your crisis, praying 🙏 for things to turn back to normal as soon as possible, for you and all Texans.

So sorry, prayers for you all

Thats harsh... Best of luck to you and your family!

All the best, like others have said we'll be here when you get back. Stay safe

So sorry to hear that. Our thought are with you and your family.

I hope everything goes ok

Sorry to hear your misfurtune. I hope your house will be fixed soon and you can move back with your family. Thanks for the video, kind regards from The Netherlands

Good to see you staying calm and in good spirits despite these highly crazy circumstances, Dave. Take good care of yourself and your family. That's the most important thing! All the best to you and everybody else going through this!

You said that your insurance will cover the damages, but I can understand that it probably will take a long time when so many people are in need of repairs after all the damage everywhere. Anyway, I hope you are doing well and that you will get past this and that not too much is being lost. Love from Norway who just got above freezing temperatures yesterday after a long period of freezing temperatures.

I am terrible sorry to hear about all the damage to your house. Here in Norway we always have a practice of ensure enough heat in rooms with water pipes and shutting off water leading to outdoor faucets, and even shutting off the main water for the house if leaving the house unattended.

Good to hear from you Dave, I was wondering about the safety of you and the family and getting this video has made me feel better, wish you and your family the best.

If you have to cut out drywall around every room, could take the opportunity to add a hard-wired perimeter security system, run fiber or cat-5 to any place you do not have it, etc. Sorry to hear how bad it got there. Here in Amarillo Texas it got down to -10F (-30F wind chill), highs were 10F or less for days, and lots and lots of snow. Almost everyone here uses gas for heat. Under about 40F electric heat pump efficiency goes to heck.

I'm having flashbacks not only to Hurricane Sandy, but to the early days of the pandemic. I am deeply sorry you had to endure all that, but grateful that damage wasn't as bad for you as others. Take as much time as you need to get things back to normal. I don't care if you don't post another video until May. Your well-being is more important.

Is there anything we can do to help you or other Texans? Anywhere we should donate to?

Glad to hear you and your family are safe and insurance covers the damage. Do Texas homes even have indoor shut-off valves for the outdoor water taps like we do in colder areas? (i'm in Canada and we have shut offs in the basement that we have to close every winter and open in the spring or this would happen every year). Or was this more to do with zero heat in the building? keep safe.

I wish you well and your life a speedy rebound to normalcy.

Very sorry to hear this David. Best wishes from VA.

It is so good to hear you had insurance! Stay safe, you have our support from all around the world.

What a nightmare! But thanks for posting, because like you said, the broadcast news doesn't tell the whole story.

Man, that's some crazy stuff going on; I'm glad you're figuring things out. Stay safe down there. 🙏

Good luck david! - I’m down here in Austin and situation is the same. I’m incredibly lucky that my apt power stayed on, but across the street people were without. — I grew up in Illinois, where the infrastructure is designed to handle this kind of weather — Texas for sure got caught with its pants down in this storm. Glad your fam and kitties are ok.

Gosh man, that's awful stuff. I'm glad you all are safe and that's what is most important, and I am glad insurance covered the cost of just about everything, but that's still no fun to deal with. I've been praying a lot that everyone can make it through these rough times and I'll be doing the same for you too.

Sorry to hear that, David. Not much I can do to help, but I wish you the best, and will certainly continue supporting you through patreon. Glad everyone's safe, at least.

Sorry to hear of your damage, we were only without power for about 16 hours, and we have a fireplace and generator. I was worried about our kitchen faucet that had froze up...but it seems to have thawed out and is not leaking...slab on grade, so who knows...

Ugh, sorry to see that. I have a friend in Grapevine TX going through much of the same. Stay safe.

Not trying to sound like this is going to sound, but, speaking as someone who dealt with a total house loss with Katrina, best of luck with the insurance company. Just persevere and don't take their first settlement offer.

Good to hear that you're doing OK and you're well insured. Take your time with the next video; we'll see it when it's ready.

I assume the pipe froze, then thawed, and that caused the leak?

wow; hang in there David et al.

You are in our thoughts and prayers. I really feel for you and everybody affekter. Thank you for sharing. Here in Sweden we also got -15 to -19 degres Celsius. But our houses and infrastructur are made for that.

Great neighbors! It's nice to see folks come together in tough times. Stay safe. I would imagine that most of your fans and supporters will be patient and understanding.

David, I'm in Bedford. Please let me know if you need help with anything!

Glad the power is finally back on, but really sorry to see/hear about the damage! Crazy to see the lack of food and other things in the stores. Thanks for making this video in spite of the crisis- it really is more serious than the news coverage shows.

Glad you and the cats are well, hope things get back to normal quickly.

OUCH....

Terrible news David, lot's of folks here in the Metroplex, and elsewhere in Texas have been hit by the sub-freezing temp's and ERCOT fiasco. We ended up taking out a home improvement loan when we had a water heater die 2 years ago, so between that and the insurance we were able to do a lot of upgrades that we wanted anyway, so sort of turned the situation from lemon's to lemonade. Hope you can do something similar when the repairs are done! Take care, Jay in Allen

Wow, I'm sorry to see this. Glad you have good people around you though. Best wishes from the UK.

Thanks for keeping us up with the things going on over in TX! Here in Germany we had uncommon amounts of snow only in some areas during the last weeks, but still a lot of homes got snow blown into their attic and have lots of water damage now... Glad to see you had the help you needed, all the best!

Man, that's unfortunate! I'm glad to hear you and your family are safe. I can imagine the frustration of having to deal with all those repairs for the next several months.

Very sorry, David. The concern when the work is done is going to be mold. I had a dishwasher overflow and saturate my basement walls last year. Reach out if you want to talk about it... my wife and I can give you some items to look at/watch for.

I'll be patiently waiting for the next video. Do what you have to do and if you later do need help with donations let us know!!! Glad you're safe.

I'm down in the Houston area. We were without power for about a day, and a pipe leading to our sprinkler system (which wasn't running or anything) burst the other day, but that's about the worst we've had from this. I hope your cleanup goes smoothly and quickly!

I knew things were pretty lousy in Texas, but I had no idea exactly how lousy it was until now. Sorry to hear that, and I hope you stay safe.

I was thinking of you when I saw the news! Glad to hear you and your family are safe. Sorry this whole situation is happening, and hope things get better soon!

My heart is with you I really wish that crisis end soon 💔 stay save sr David I herd the news and the first thing coming in my mind Is the safety of you and your family i do really wish for you all the Best and to stay safe from all of that

Best wishes from Denmark!

When they said Texas has seriouos issues, I was instantly thinking of you. I don't know anyone in Texal, you are the only one I know who lives there. Hang in there!

I'm very sorry to hear about this David and for you and all the others in Texas who are going through this nightmare. I am however, glad that you seem to have such great neighbours. My best to everyone and I hope things get back to normal quickly.

Take care David. Life comes first, your fans will be here.

Hoooly monkey. Glad your people are at least safe, and there's a plan to make your stuff whole again.

Stay safe David!

I am very sorry to hear about the flood. All the best to you and your family.

I have been hearing that many people in Dallas are still without power. I have been wondering about you, David, and hoping that you were unaffected. Sorry to hear otherwise. Good luck out there from your neighbors in New Mexico.

David, you and yours are in my prayers.