I remember Hurricane Alicia. I was 4. It was raining hard and lots of thunder and lightning. Lightning hit a tree in our front yard, the sky turned pink, it was super loud and that tree got split right down the middle. I remember being terrified and clinging to my mother. I don't remember a lot from when I was 4 but I do remember that.

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It must've been you 🧐👍

Not 😊

Yes, Energy capital of the world for renewable and oil because they are based here….but did anyone say best infrastructure of the world? NO! What we need is competition not a monopoly.

OUR BILLIONS OF DOLLARS! yes. We have made a mistake by accepting this

What about all that money they laundered in Ukraine 🤑🤑🤑🤑

Mother Nature is a billion dollar company? you people act like a hurricane wasn't suppose to do this much damage.

@@unsilent369compared to other grid maintainers, they’ve been spending a weirdly low amount of money clearing trees around power lines Profit over peep

@@unsilent369oh, you weren’t ignorant, your a professional corporate simp?

Would you have wanted all your main power lines underground during the flooding of Harvey?

Just try digging in Houston. You will hit water quickly. Common sense

They use underground lines in the UK and it rains there all the time. I wonder what they do to prevent flooding?

Republican don't care they are doing anything for infrastructure

The problem is SALT water from tidal surge.

Most of the west, gulf and east coasts will soon be under water and the government has KNOWN.

@@williambrown2830 How are they going to be under water?LOL

Houston as designed and engineered is not bright. Middle of gulf coastal swamp (lowland). 50 miles inland... Imagine 180 years ago: this looks like a good place to settle and start start business. Swamp, skeeters, gators not much breeze breeze, no clear drinking water.....

The highest elevation is less than 50', intense winds bring whats called storm surge bud, high tides and low elevation equals what? You guessed it,flooding! ​@winstonsmith2391

@@patgraeme775 That has nothing to do with the conversation, the original comment (which was deleted) was not talking about flooding but more climate cult doomsday prophecy of "every coastal city" being completely submerged under water unless we repent of our carbon sins and swear allegiance to the great prophet Al Gore.

Money is all that matters.💪😎✌️

@@Novastar.SaberCombat No, human life matters more than anything and that's why we will fight the bullies into submission...God Bless...

Yup yet Urkraine gets millions of dollars each month

​@BarrierIsland actually we can put a price on an average human life is worth on average 1M over a 50 yr lifespan. Hence life insurance

Exactly! We used to get through stronger hurricanes!

Not so. It's metal and outside in the elements, of course it will rust. That doesn't affect it's performance.

@@aholmes6612not like that bro lmao that's corroding away

@@DasGoodSoup that's the outer shell, the inside copper and windings are heavily insulated

Money is money.

True, this transformer's internal components could still be in good working order. And since made of copper, are not rusting. But it's mounted and supported to the pole by the outside rusted and compromised metal housing. If at the very least, the outer housing needs attention or replacement just to keep it secured to the pole. I don't see many around town that look this rusted. Probably not uncommon for them to eventually rust for sure. But this one(externally) has seen better days and looks long overdue for "some sort of attention and or maintenance." Not surprising considering : our aging grid, it's aging components, and this "it's not a problem until complete failure occurs" approach by those responsible for taking care of these things.

America its self will be under that judgement soon enough

Me and my brother were just talking about that. Very dark cloud over this city that wasn’t here a decade ago.

You expect Abbot to do anything positve for the state? It will NEVER happen. The power grid has been effed for decades.

Short term profits tho!

A tiny little storm huh? You realize that "tiny little storm" with 100 mph winds for hours on end caused tornadoes from Texas to NY, right?

@LoriL010 that's my point. Just imagine it being a category five of the same storm.

Isn’t in the governor’s agenda

Harvey was a TS when it hit Houston.

@@ahokay3119 Plus the main damage with harvey was that it just kind of parked over us for almost a whole week while dumping endless rain. My house had all kind of new leaks popping up we didn't even know about from just how saturated with water it was getting.

So you think metal would fare better? LOL!!!!

They are slowly replacing them with some sort of metal ones...saw a few go up 6 months ago near me.

​@@stephanie_smith I doubt they are metal. They might look like metal.

@@GregLakatosChradm We have Concrete Utility poles here in Florida.

Contractors are installing metal poles in North Texas.

Money.

​@@Novastar.SaberCombatreally cutting down trees is going to cost so much money but having the entire power grid go out causing widespread blackouts well that's that's not going to cost us that much money

Yessss I agree. I think there should be mandate about trees and power lines. No trees within 100ft of power lines!!!

@@Flokiabob311 Here in Florida our Electric companies start cutting & trimming the trees near Power lines before the Hurricane Season starts. Why don't they do this in Texas?

Follow the lead of Netherlands and Sweden as they cut trees and brush back regularly and prior to storms. Not that difficult.

Got power?

Sitting negotiating deals

Facts

So put a new one up n then add metal supporters idea when add new 🪵 wood.... and when they replace them remove them lol 😂

It isn’t Abbott. It’s centerpoint not paying its employees and help from out of state

There you go again bringing politics and love for beto

@@rr-rickyimagine how much hate for blu donkeys you’d hear if this happened in California

@@erikkarlonas180 it’s the government’s responsibility to look out for its citizens not corporate greed; by allowing no oversight of necessary regulatory standards ( that the other states in U.S.have )have been weakened by this Texas governor. All he does is pass the blame until hurricane or freeze. Abbott don’t even care the be hear while 13 of our Texas neighbors die as a result of it

@@erikkarlonas180 it’s the government’s responsibility to look out for its citizens not corporate greed; by allowing no oversight of necessary regulatory standards ( that the other states in U.S.have )have been weakened by this Texas governor. All he does is pass the blame until hurricane or freeze. Abbott don’t even care the be hear while 13 of our Texas neighbors die as a result of it

what you expect him to do? go to your house and fix it? lol

THE WIRES ARE DOWN DA. LOL!!!!

Wouldn't need one if they performed regularly maintenance and upgrading old equipment. Ffs

Of course not. But foresight, preparation, preventative maintenance, and intelligence all factor into the equation. At least, they should. BUT THEY DIDN'T. 😂🤣😂 Oh well. It do be what it do be.

@@Novastar.SaberCombat do you know how many power lines/transformers, power stations, there are in Houston area, and the amount of time it would take to remove and place these things, its hurricane season from july to november, every year, where do you think centerpoint is going to find the man power, and time to do every single one, and with able body MEN on the decline, it's a wonder they are able to do it now

Because spending time and money to anonymously tear things up is better than making billions selling guaranteed perfect weather.

@@higgs923 You sure took the fun out of that conspiracy!

@@fueymanchoo1291 🤣😂😂

You need to vote for Trump to get Trump!

​@@rickharnish6757nothing but crickets

​@@rickharnish6757Trump comment was sarcastic. I saw how he handled Puerto Rico throwing paper towels at residents. Wait till your house his leveled by disaster and take those paper towels and shove them in your mouth genius