No way! That's insane

Wtf thats messed up

Centerpoint don't want to pay

Centerpoint is claiming that the linemen are working more than 12 hrs a day but more than half of that time the linemen are sitting around waiting to be told where to go and what to do. Why did the Centerpoint CEO get an almost 40 million dollar bonus if his company is this Centerpointle$$?

@@AllUTouch that's what monopolies should be banned.

Thats right!! In crosby they're posting pictures of those trucks but in reality i dont see any of then actually working

If you look closely they’re still sitting in their trucks it’s all they do

In the morning they go straight to restaurant for breakfast.

@@7WarHammermore like a tent with food

I saw six trucks in a field in Baytown. The men were sitting inside the trucks with the AC on😂!

I'm sorry to hear that. I hope that you are doing better. 💜

I had my breakdown yesterday as well...get somewhere cool and get some good rest tonight! Its ok to be upset.

not having good sleep takes its toll

I’ve slept in my truck outside in the a/c for 5 days now. I watched Entergy restore power to all my neighbors across the street Tuesday. Still haven’t seen Centerpoint, and it’s Saturday. I’ve walked all the Lines for 3 miles, and there is no damage anywhere. I go to work everyday, then sit at home with thermostat showing 90-92. At dark, I get in my truck. Same thing everyday with no end in sight.

Mass death?… smh

@@kayc5570 that was a cat 2 or 3. Wind speeds were clocked well over 100 mph that their saying. All the dow plants in Freeport have wind measuring equipment. 134 mph in Freeport.

​@user-gw7bs9up3l nope it was 80mph cat 1. That's a lie

@@josephcelestiel6129 their saying 90 to 100, I don't know where you got 80 at, but that's ignorant. Come down to coast and see the damage and try to tell ppl 80 mph winds did that, and them call them a liar.

So there is no regulations on where they have to build new lines. So they take the cheapest option available.

@@atheistskeptic8748 You cannot bullet proof the power grid against hurricanes and tornados unless you go underground and then you have water...and BTW, California can't keep the lights on either. Hawaii burned to the ground over their power grid.

You can bet all in the prices will be higher than a mf not just this month the rest of the year. Who else is paying for the 12000 crews? Definitely NOT Centerpoint

​@346azul yeah they have to make their millions when probably the majority of their customers make less than 50,000 a year

There is no such thing as " hurricane proof " or "tornado proof" electric grid. People don't understand the complexity of an electric grid. You don't just plug it back in. Poles, transformers, power lines are totally mangled. It takes time to rebuild the grid. I don't understand how people say "they should have been better prepared." You can't prepare for that type of destruction.

Why should they charge us for electricity we didn't even use 🤷

@@electron7659 They shouldn't, but we all know that they will, unfortunately

You can thank governor Abbet for that. Texas is the only state not on the national grid you can thank your geriatric paraplegic governor… he is more concerned about taking the rights away from women and prosecuting women who get abortions that we’re gonna die from the pregnancy. Your Governor is closer to Satan that he is God and unfortunately Texas needs to suffer until they elect a human being closer to God than closer to Satan.

This is Texas, New York is much better.

Generators are cheaper then phones.

Hey are you a cyraxx troll just wondering cus ur name sorry if u don't know what I'm talking about😊

Sounds like what Capitalist call living under Socialism. Weird right? What if we all worked together and built everyone up? No, that’s Socialism!!! It’s bad and everyone suffers without power and shelter and food. Tent cities will be everywhere! Wait for trickle down!

Texas Public Utility Commission: (Google the number) PUC won't be much help with this outage, except that it puts your complaint into the public record. Be sure to state that your complaint is not that you don't have power, but rather Centerpoint continuously fails to provide the infrastructure and resources needed to communicate with the public. They refuse to build a basic website that can communicate with their customers in the middle of an outage. They don't provide enough call center people to take phone calls, they don't disseminate basic information to employees to pass on to customers. (Not to mention they can't provide reliable service). Your call to PUC won't fix your problem today, but by getting your complaint into the public record, it makes it harder for the politicians to claim "there is no problem, the grid is working great". It's not working great. It's terrible. It's fragile, unreliable, and more expensive to the consumer than it has to be.

It's not that hard to figure out, Centerpoint and ERCOT are at fault. And the Texas government has been taking lobbyist payments to look the other way and go on vacation while the voters suffer

​@@rynor2691 🎯👍💯🎯👍💯🎯👍💯🎯👍💯

Don't boo Vote blue.

@@gm7304 I've been voting blue since I was 18 years old 🙂

Sounds like these guys work for the fire department.

Yup if they are a monopoly and the government should force them to give each customer a backup generator for their shttt service

Womp womp

and abbott's

Politicians don't want to promote solar or wind because it will cut into their profits because they all own stocks in fossil fuel. Low information voters ( ie: stupid people) will continue to fall for their nonsense about why wind and solar is bad.

NUCLEARRRRR

@@yourdadsotherfamily3530 knowing Houston & Texas, that’ll fail too and it’ll be Chernobyl, Texas Unless we can manage and regulate the greed, corruption, and incompetence…

Jason Wells, the CenterPoint CEO said that because the Texas grid does not comply with industry standards, that all 10,000 out of state workers brought in to do the repairs have to be retrained and certified before they can work on the CenterPoint system.

@@StoneInMySandal sounds like some bs 🙄

@StoneInMySandal yes I am a trained doctor I can save this man's life I am from out of state...ooooo no you see bud our industry standards are different here and require retraining before we can legally allow you to help save this man's life.. bs

Don't believe it. Those in a nested outage aren't being included and aren't given estimates. Seems like a small amount but my nested outage is 53 homes. A couple blocks over its 32.

Complain to mother nature, or go ahead and design some hurricane proof power lines or bullet proof that can withstand ice covered limbs falling on them in a hundred year ice storm. And BTW, California holds the record for the most ppl effected by power outages in the US for about the last decade.

I prefer the cold weather because I'm originally from a northern state and I can survive in sub zero temps but I cant combat the heat. And in winter layers can be used as a source of warmth , but we can only take off so much clothes in summer 😔

There is nowhere to go cool off and no gas. Please know what you are writing about.

Where exactly are we going to go cool down? What about people without transportation how will they go?

u cra-z

Factsss

Exactly

I’m sure you know what they are looking at too… counting transformers, miles of lines, poles, connections… I just know you could shake out the trucks and linemen faster than those that do it for a living… yep!!

@brendachilders8075 I just know I never see them physically doing anything, sure is a lot of looking. Florida gets more severe hurricanes and don't seem to have this issue

@@MrOctavia1000 mmmhmmm….. I’m just sure they do it different, go back to Florida!!!

@brendachilders8075 sorry but Centerpoint dropped the ball, you can defend them all you want

Houston Politicians being Democrat means if the media tells the truth they will be unemployed and unemployable.

You are not much of a man if you can't take responsibility's for your failures. Abbott and Patrick will never MAN UP..

Centerpoint is garbage.

yes I called them to come take down a big pine tree that was too close to power lines and they didn't do anything

😂 it's never for "no reason"

I'm more than sure majority isn't mad at the actual workers we know how much they do for us and I'm sure plenty of people have gone out of their way to show gratitude people are more mad that they have the ability to make the calls and make it happen but instead they have their workers just there or no where to be seen after they take off I get that prep and saftey happens first then they send them in but damn how is it we did a million in 48 hrs and we past another 48 and we have waaaay less done. What are they actually doing..but besides that I will say shout out to all the workers who have to deal with thos who are dumb enough to blame them when all they are doing is the best they can for us

i don't think anyone is hating on the workers brother, greed of privatization is what this is... they cut costs by shorting manpower and NOT investing in proper and robust redundancies, those cost 'savings' go right into the pockets of management for being so clever and cheating the customers... with a government run and regulated utility, you wouldn't have the greed that fills fat cat pockets, in lieu of actually providing affordable and reliable service.

Same just got power on my street but can still hear others still running there generators near by

What? You have power but it's not working properly?

So sorry to,hear this

He’s a born liar 😢

😂

😂💪🏻

centerpointle$$

What? I thought all those rv looking things in the parking lots were for them. Were there not enough or they did not like the accommodations and choose hotels?

He's too busy going on vacation and criticizing Biden on immigration. He doesn't have time to care about Texans not having power.

Wow! Be safe

great comment

Again, too expensive to get anything stronger than a toothpick. In fact, to save them money, they searched for the cheapest toothpick they could find..............they must have ordered a bundle pack from AliExpress. 🤔

They should have offered the training and benefits to Houstonians beforehand... liars!

Bs!

Yes. Because he's in charge of the state power grid.

but he says it was sylvesters fault