This is what happens when there's no competition.

No one should have a monopoly on people's lives.

They dropped the ball yet again but they charge you like they have it all figured out

They should make a law where the longer it takes the electric company to restore power to people the more credit they give to those areas; not only do they not get paid for the electricity not being used but they have to give future credits for future energy used. Once you start effecting their bottom line (profits) you will see this whole system improve

Centerpoint is full of shit

Have not seen ANY workers anywhere. Not one.

This is what happens when Centerpoint spends money on stock buybacks instead of infrastructure. Media should investigate this.

Thursday will be day 4 without power and being hot as hell 😭

These maps are NOT accurate. I spent over a half hour waiting on hold to tell Centerpoint that our area wasn’t shaded, but everyone on my street has NO power! Centerpoint is lying! The operator said that they are aware that the maps aren’t updated! WTF does that mean?!

They increased their prices recently after some thunder storms in Texas; for what? Better service? Of course not! Days and days without electricity and excessive heat.

Centerpointless

Hey voters let’s pay attention to candidates who want to modernize our power grids rather than blindly voting red or blue

Wait till everyone finds out YOU are going to be paying for being out of power and damages

They turn the power on for all the tourist attractions first before the residents! Is Centerpoint getting kickbacks?

I’m at middle street and the map shows all green, but we still don’t have power. I don’t believe the map is correct and they don’t have one million customers restored. I say we start looking for their CEO and high ranking officials in the mean while. Their pictures are on the internet.

We just want a good estimate of when it will be back on. If it’s a week then fine, we will go stay somewhere else. We just do t want to wait around here hoping it comes back on.

I managed Yale Village apartments when Rita hit. I was told the same things by Centerpoint, that we had power. Across the street had power but we didn't and they wouldn't believe me. Even with KHOU coming out to help it took a week to get them to send someone. How long ago was that? And they haven't improved at all?

It’s interesting to watch the news get slowly more angry and unhinged

Oh, yes the map has said our entire neighborhood has been restored. Nope…. I’ve received three text from center point telling me we have been restored none have been true but, it looks good for the numbers they keep reporting. If we do not pay a bill they cut service and charge a reconnect fee. How about them being charged a fee after a certain period of time people are down? I imagine if they had to start writing checks repairs would be accomplished much faster.

Reason not to put your faith and life in anyone hands Keep at least one generator ready 24/7 and fuel for a week at least 😊

Pasadena still has no power but says its been fixed. My father n law got a text but still no power. Also says my parents have power and they still dont have power.

They came and wiggled the lines in my neighborhood. The lights came on for a brief moment. That was 6 hours ago. Still no power

I wonder if this new plan has anything to do with the usual gerrymandering schemes?

All the restaurants are back up, but the neighborhood is darkness!! Priority's seem backwards! Restaurants, car dealers, football fields all lit up, meanwhile all these small child and elderly are suffering in these extreme conditions!!!!

I don't know how you Texans deal with these public officials that say they're working for you, but actually there for a paycheck and self interests.

The county judge and the head of Centerpoint are pointing fingers at each other. I don't trust either of them

Someone dox the higher-ups for this negligence. Maybe they'll be more prepared next time

📣Still in pitch black dark. No one even came in this neighborhood. Like I said earlier, it was all polished and swept under the rug. That hot seat is getting hotter and hotter. 🔥 These heads need to step down, like someone we all know. 😂😅

Remember the big freeze?? What the hell is wrong with these greedy bastards? People are dying!!

The map continues to show our area is brown.( meaning no power) . Fortunately it is incorrect, as we have had power for about 24 hours.

Look at this time stamp. Still no power but the businesses around us do

Hurricane Ike in 2008 we didn’t have electricity restored for 2 weeks, so please be patient, people out in the heat work days and nights to help us. Over 2 million customers without power, we’re not alone.

It’s been 4 days when will go back on

Maybe some kind of tree mitigation needs to be looked

Why does the map look like it was created in Microsoft Paint?

We are on Parker and bauman near 45n. Some section have power and we don't. There are a lot of kids out here. This is ridiculous.

Something has got to change!!!

In Houston there are so many companies that can get this service restored but since monopoly exist kaki companies appear not caring about customers like center point

You cant even access the map feom the centerpoint site! You have to follow a link from the news stories. And the whataburger and foodtown apps are more accurate than their map. It shows my neighborhood as green but we only jave 3 out of 12 streets with power.

These guys are working their asses off, I appreciate their efforts. Their management is the problem, not the repair crews

Centerpointe needs to leave texas

PS: How much money do you want to bet the next hurricane power outage event that hits houston, that there map will go down again then? And this broken record will go on till the end of time. Bet me?

We need CenterPoint’s CEO and VP’s HOME ADDRESSES NOW !!!!!

That 💩 look like Dig Dug 🤣

We just need electricity not ridicuous maps.

Where are the workers? Barely any to see!

throwing paint at the wall randomly would be more accurate than that map

One word-SUE ! These dipsticks at CenterPoint need to be held accountable!!

I hate centerpoint energy , my grandma just died from. Heat stroke ,I’m going to sue them !!!

dude said they have a monopoly, come on bruh you think any company wants to go in and compete, pay full price to build out nfrastucture but only get maybe half the customers

When is Sugar Land getting power?

power in my neighborhood "restored" on Tuesday the 9th, TO BE ONLY LOST AGAIN on Wednesday the 10th... are we in the "Grenn"/part of so called "restored neighborhood"?

If you live Here, prepare. Many of the transplants dont know how to prepare for hurricanes. I had to teach my new neighbors.

Sounds like someone wants to get rid of the contract with Center Point

Well meaning, but not relatable. This situation is FUBAR. This is what we can continue to expect. Sad.

If this doesn’t help your thoughts on DEI or ESG scores for major industries then nothing will

3 days No power at memorial area so hot no cold water and no food waiting for hour to order sandwich , no estimate time

While every official is worried about the power outages, no one is talking about the price gouging going around gas stations😡is sick how they take advantage of the situation. And officials allow it.

It’s obvious what the issues are CenterPointe! All the trees that have obviously never been trimmed, power line’s laying on the street! That’s your assessment! Now fix it. It breaks my heart when I take the back street from my Commons of Lake Houston neighborhood and drive down Magnolia Pointe. That neighborhood has a lot of downed power lines just laying on that street. Unfortunately these lines in this neighborhood must feed into our neighborhood. These homes are very old, and some in very poor condition. The saddest part is seeing the elderly residents of those homes sitting out in their wheelchairs in front of their homes looking helpless, sickly. Why can’t generators be brought in by city officials to help the most vulnerable! They could at least get a few homes powered and have a place for them to cool off. Please News stations try reporting on the issue in Huffman, Kingwood, Parts of Humble, Crosby! NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE! We are a part of Houston too, and had just as much damage! It’s obvious the power lines have never been repaired properly from Harvey! Patch it up! NO, how about you replace the lines and keep the trees trimmed! It’s called preventative maintenance! Please if you live in the Commons and the neighborhood off Magnolia Pointe, let’s check on these elderly sitting out in their wheelchairs. Water, snacks, Gatorade, lunch! It could be next week or longer for us to get power restored! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

It is July. The tracker could not be ready by the end of June.

Why does the west side always have more green??? Why does the east side always have to suffer?

CENTERPOINTLE$$

Well we all sign up for the jobs that pay us and some get hazardous pay...keep working linemen !

No trucks on our way home from work we saw some trucks all together. 3 trucks on a property. But no one there.

I'm so glad I'll never be a victim of the Texas utility companies. This is another reason why people should choose their home states very carefully and very wisely. People who talk big but can't deliver in a pinch put lives in danger.

Centerpoint crews are working. I'm a 44 year resident of Houston, Buy a generator, extension cords & several gas cans!

Our lights were on for a minute and now they out again

This needs to be the last straw. Truly. Centerpoint could care less about the people they “serve.” They can go ahead and post pictures before the storm of them in meetings - that all means jack. What were they doing? Reinforcing their website or map features? Highlighting areas that might be the hardest hit? Nope. Who knows. I hope Mayor Whitmire chaps their ends, as well as Lt. Dan Patrick’s: get your behind down here to asses damage so we can get federal disaster assistance NOW.

Spring still has no power

That's Entergy that gives the dates of when power goes back up

Looks like they are quick to remove your power once your late on power bill,but take about a week to response power for millions.

Also, y’all please remember these linemen are not the blame, they are only doing their job, they are just as frustrated as we are that the company they work for continues to be careless. Their lives are in danger everyday, and these kind of issues make it worse!

Right...that's how it is . I saw people shopping for groceries..I'm like how could that be ,. I live right down the street from the grocery store n yet we had no power in the whole complex

Center Point = Same stories different day! Very disappointed 😢😢😢

The "other smaller power company giving customers date estimates" is Entergy, who operates in zones that are still regulated (meaning customers have no choice, but to use Entergy) primarly North and North East Houston Suburbs like Conroe and The Woodlands and far East you would think one company without competition would do far worse, but that's just a pillar of Capitalism we're indoctrinated with, that you must have free markets to get to quality products and services, when the truth is Entergy is just a much better operator.... They've actually exceeded their estimate of 50% of customers by end of day July 10th, they closed out with about 60% back and more or less a promise that almost everyone will be back no later than Sunday.

How can a house have electricity and the one across the street doesn't??? Centerpoint should leave Houston for once and for all.

I believe Centerpoint is not able to take care of so many customers. The government should be considering not allowing them to handle the power lines for so many customers. The government should only allow one company to take care of small portions of the power lines

Make it like Entergy's map. By far the best map I've ever seen. It's a little slow to update sometimes but I've never seen a better one

Isn't everything bigger and better in Texas ? Apparently not!

Anyone seen Greg Abbott lately?

Dunno if this map was a good idea. It looks like it's drawn in by someone doodling it in by hand. If true, it means it can't be updated without great overhead and effort. Perhaps they were using it to organize internally, but that doesn't mean you get good public communication for free by posting it to everyone - with public facing expectations.

So glad we didn't lose power 🙂

Bet theyre usi g AI to create that map and decide where to focus people. They stated they would focus first on spots that would get the most people up but that means they are jumping around to fix stuff instead of doing it in a proper order. So you get neighbors that have power and others that dont.

Let the lawsuits begin it's time to go after these greedy power companies

90° indoors😒

Oh, so many geniouses and experts.

Heck, come to Spencer Park Row. half the apts are powered while the larger half are Still off. And to remedy would only require a single truck 30 minutes as only 3 fuses are blown blown. Centerpoint should be ashamed

Y’all must not remember Harvey. Our neighborhood was without power for 3 weeks for that one. It’s only been out for 3 days and based on the fact Linemen showed up at the front of the neighborhood this afternoon, I suspect we may have power back by this weekend.

THEY WATCHED THE STORM FOR A WHOLE WEEK!!! NOBODY THGT ABOUT PRECAUTIONS 🙄

We need more heroes

man its like a hurricane came through or something

My part of conroe texas " is still out "" off of Frazer st sub division

You all going to bark or bite!?!?

Hot n sweaty? How many shirts he wearing???

I have a workmate whose husband works for a power company up here in N-TX. Last week, he was in OK dealing with power outages - then he got the call over the weekend to go to Houston. So he drove 8 hours to your city to help get things up and going. Why am I telling you this? Because his wife got a video from him today of people cussing at him, throwing rocks and bottles at his crew members and having a hissy fit because someone brought these linemen some cold cut sandwiches. Really? Why? I understand the frustration and the heat, I spent two of the worst years of my life in Houston. I also understand that living on the coast means you better be ready to take care of yourself for a week or so while hard working linemen struggle to get your AC back on. These men sleep in their trucks because the hotels nearby are filled to capacity. They don't have the option of searching out a cooling station for some respite from the heat. And they don't see their families for weeks on end. So you want to throw things at these men, maybe make one of them lose their balance and fall into one of those power lines. Would that get your lights on faster? Shame, shame, shame on these folks who are so wrapped up in themselves that they can't find some way to help the others around them, especially the crews that are working 16 hours per day, trying to help Houston. BIG, BIG black eye for some of Houston!!!

I did not expect it would get so bad

It sucks yes but there is a process. As you have to assess the problem before you can fix it.

I get that people are frustrated but these Centerpoint employees are trying to help us get power back it's completely unrealistic to expect that it's just going to happen a day or two after a huge storm with how widespread it was. If a category 2, 3, or 4 comes in it's going to be way longer understandably. During Laura my husband and I left for New England temporarily with our baby because we had been living with his parents in Lake Charles. They didn't get power back OR water for over 3 weeks.

Pls hurry and fix Brazoria county we been without light since Sunday and it’s horrible it’s hot.

Why no attention for Sagemont,Pasadena,Pearland etc.. This area had endless bands washing over and poverty pounding them over and over from hurricane,p. Always last for repairs and is closer to gulf. It is always disregarded and all in orange. Have to wonder if it is due to ethnicity or economics of area that is always left in the dark.