Hey that will work.

sounds delicious

🤦🏾‍♂️😂

It might be like the water crisis just recently in Jackson Ms., when they were all over the Governor. But they shut up when they found out who had been put in charge of the water system.

I don’t think we are allowed to talk about who was responsible for updating that grid, are we. That would be anti something, I suppose.

Glad someone thought of that.

Biden’s fault!

A strong fart could take out the grid.

​@@aplaceformystuff7979please don't, I just got my power back

@@aplaceformystuff7979Farted!

@@thaneoflions975 FARTED AGAIN

How?

You’d think they’d learn from that.

@@anonnymous6490 Yeah learn from a fart

@@HomeByTheSeasFarted

@@Mountain_bonker SHIDSKIDDED

THIS 👏👏👏🙌🏼 privatizing these institutions only make it so that their vested interest is the opposite of what the public needs from them, the very purpose for their existence in the first place smh

Yes, but public(political) utilities would appoint someone like Judge Hidalgo to be CEO. How would that work out?

I used to live in Lansing MI, which has public utilities. Idk a ton about how it’s run/etc, but I do know my power ran fine even when we had massive storms or tornadoes in the area, and outages got fixed quick. now I live in southeast Michigan where DTE (like CenterPoint) owns all utilities, and their service is horrible. Last year we lost power in my area for days every time we got a bad weather, even just normal thunderstorms! and DTE (like CenterPoint) changed their outage map last year so you can’t easily see the outages anymore. And you can’t switch to a different utility provider cuz DTE (like CenterPoint) has a monopoly, so you’re just screwed. My thoughts are with the people of Houston dealing with similar problems with CenterPoint after Beryl, the derecho earlier this year, etc, it shouldn’t be like this

It would work very well, the public could vote to replace her if ineffective. Can't do that with a CEO ​@@Houston123ABC

@@Houston123ABCConsidering even she was doing press conferences before CenterPoint was she would probably do a better job lol

Yes. They suck and FJB!!! They've known about this grid since the early 2000s!

@@ElizabethF2222Before anyone attacks with “Governor is Repub” Yes that’s true, but the city of Houston has been ran by Democrats for over 40 years. So i’m with ya. Just seeing a lot of dopes blaming Abbott when it’s negligence on the Democratic mayors of Houston at fault.

No accountability and customers generate millions for them monthly

It has .. & they just pulled up a bs map to track outages from thin air today.

Abbot never holds his friends accountable

They will add $5 credit to everyone account.

Just wait for rate hikes 😆 those are coming.

Y'all ain't lying

My neighbor just died of heatstroke

Homeland Security is too busy at the border processing "newcomers."

It's a for profit business....not a charity

​@@davidbryant3532and that's why the human race isn't advancing in energy bc everything is a profit for business purposes which is a primitive mind set. Money first, humanity last. Let's not advance civilization, let's profit instead. Smh.

and those profits go to execs and shareholders, not into upgrading infrastructure

@@mike_w-tw6jd moron

This is absolutely inexcusable. I feel for you, it happened to me during the tornado. Centerpoint needs to be sued

It was a hurricane! Lights don't just come on with a flick of a switch.

@@hirevS2K didn't they call for back up electricians all late?🤔

@@hirevS2K Entergy has restored power to the majority of its customers already.

My power is on but I’m expecting a thousand dollar light bill. You know the people with power will end up paying for the people without just like what happened during the Houston Freeze

It really ridiculous it the 4th day and they are continuing to “plan” and not take any action!!! This is so tiring !!

If they would get with the community they have people willing to help do the labor, now we have another storm on its way,I'm sure that's why they haven't done much....if it isn't one thing it's another!

I don't even know what day it is now,but very thankful for my neighbors!!!!!!

Exactly. After THE GREAT ICE STORM of 3(?) years ago, 4 families in my small NE Texas town, in my small neighborhood including me, ordered Bubba Generacs that are always ready. Here, we have power outages a half dozen times each year. Our electric company is SWEPCO. Just about as good as Center Point.

It took 5 months to get the generator. Demand was very high.

That’s how they make money by prolonging the job/project.

And charging top dollar for it 🙄

They used to keep the trees trimmed. It's been over 4 years since I've seen it done

Not sure how safe that is since it rains. I'm sure they'd secure it with water proof material but not sure if it's a good idea. Back generators in every home would be better though.

it got spent on surveillance

@@IAmLeePeace lots of places have underground electrical lines. The little redneck town in Louisiana where I grew up had them in the 1970's.

@@user-kx4fu3uh6q The problem with underground power lines in floodplains is that it will cost more to repair and will take even longer to fix when there's flooding.

I mean do you really understand how many steps it would take to get money for that specifically? And then actually doing it? It's easy to just leave comments like this

Fun trip in Asia. South Korea

It’s it open late?

Still without power in Katy…

I'm confused. What about Texas' business friendly attitude or even just generally the way this state is run - would given anyone the misconception that they would or should care? It seems to me that if you even get power back at all you should be expressing eternal gratitude.

Neither does the government of Texastan.

Neither did Sylvester, Hidalgo, and Ed Gonzales.

@@JESS1CAC west katy @99 still nothing here.

No electricity since 4am Monday here at Fuqua/Beamer/Sam parkway. Center point is an EMBARRASSMENT

​@@Airamimosano power here in Lake Jackson since Monday either and our power went out at 1am. A few hrs later I guess ya'lls power went out next.

@@IAmLeePeace What a hot mess n stress.

@@Airamimosa it is, it is.. I live in an apartment and the wind and rain was hitting our windows so hard I thought they were going break. I saw the power lines swinging so hard while trees also slammed into it. I saw electricity and heard the buzzing and I knew rhe power was going to go. Several times I saw this from my window. We didn't sleep bc of it. I went out today and saw a power line pole snapped in half where a tree broke off from the force of the wind just a few feet away landing on the power lines. Right across from where that tree and pole snapped another huge tree fall on a brand new car and the car was crushed. So, I don't know how long it'll be until we get power back on. I did see those trucks arriving into Lake Jackson when I went out. Then I saw several parked at the mall parking lot. You know, we are the largest state and we can't even upgrade our power grid. Smh

@@IAmLeePeace Same, haven't been able to sleep due to how hot it is. We had some terrific hours seeing and hearing the hurricane's power and it's destruction as it was going by and to top it off having to deal with no sleep, loss of so much food from fridge n freezer, dealing with mosquito bites from having the doors &vwindows open, waste of so much gas driving different side of towns to find ice, little bit of food, waters etc daily because the ice last half of the day so once it's melted back on the streets to find more, it is insane and none of that should be happening if only CENTER POINT WOULD HAD ALL OF THE TRUCKS STATIONED AND READY SINCE SUNDAY OR MONDAY VERY EARLY MORNING!

I wonder if "Centerpoint" supports Ukraine,but can't take care of Texas?

@@elenataylor4611 I'll bet you anything that Centerpoint has spent more money bribing Texas GQP politicians than they have sent to Ukraine.

Now it’s abbott

@@scotthermmann4 where would he even need to go?

@@nochilllwill He's jet setting across Asia. He's making stops in South Korea, Taiwan and Japan. He canceled his plans to visit Thailand as they are not wheelchair accessible. When he made a comment about his trip and the hurricane, he defended himself in the first sentence, something like "While I am in SK putting together business deals worth billions, [I am in contact with EMS about the hell on earth conditions the people in my state are experiencing...]"

Should be called Cancun Cruz 😂

Exactly right. Largest pacified group of people I've ever witnessed

centerpoint is still using the same equipment that was around when Alicia hit.

Relax. The Blue State handouts are on the way.

i wonder who he called..Abbot is traveling.

He called the county judge

He thought he was talking to Kansas when he called. He also thought it was 2020

Well, he's actually doing something, abbot is jet setting across Asia and cruz is whale watching on the west coast, so I guess what I'm trying to say is GFY or STFU, your choice.

Why not sue yourself for not being prepared...why not for being lazy and taking accountability for yourself?

@@davidbryant3532I'm guessing you have electricity or a generator and feel privileged?

​@davidbryant3532 This is a natural disaster ,and many ppl can't afford generators

@elenataylor4611 a small generator cost 500.00...anyone can afford that. Do you consume alcohol...cigarettes...drugs...netflix...etc? If you can afford those things and other non essential items...you can take care of yourself. It's all about self preservation.

Why is it Americans are constantly about lawsuits? We get mini snow hurricanes every week in Maine for the winter, you don't see us suing because it's cold and the local town delivery truck was overturned on the way. Grow up Lone Star.

I was just telling my daughter the samething yesterday. It should be mandatory for all apartments to have back up generators for stuff like this and the homes should be equipped with them too! This is ridiculous! The heat isn't like it use to be when I was growing up! Also, we aren't advancing in energy! We could have already had free energy and water all over the US but cooperate greed is setting us all back!

neighborhood microgrids sharing power

pays to be rich :3

The Democrats made sure all the Black and Mexican neighborhoods got power. Meanwhile they picked on white people and made them suffer! All white neighborhoods are still without power and the illegals are laughing at us! Biden even gave them free stay at luxury hotels. What do you say about that? The Democrats are evil!

believe me that ain't true

I live in the Woodlands and we still don’t have power ( it’s been three days and counting)

And houstonians just sit and take it uo the rear instead of actually doing something about it. Laziest people on the planet anymore.

why? explain what they could do differently?

No, the government of Texastan has probably made laws shielding them. It's been 3 years since that frozen fiasco and they have done nothing to fix it.

@cerebrumexcrement where’s the Mayor?, where’s the city council? Where is the Federal Government? Where is the Red Cross? the church? Love the way y’all blame and then demand government handouts and outside action/interference when you’re inconvenienced. “let’s pay the Governor millions of dollars to shut up so we can do what we want “. Said no one ever….

@@sandtoy11510 Sorry greg, creating a fake account to defend yourself while you're vacationing in Asia isn't going to work. It's been three years since the devastating winter fiasco, when your buddy grandpa munster jetted off to Mexico while Texastan was frozen, and you have done nothing to make sure it never happens again. I'd say it doesn't make sense that people still vote for you but then I remember that Texastan is filled with some of the dumbest "people" on this planet.

"wheres the governor?" He's busy being schmoozed in Asia; but he makes phone calls to people back home he said, so it's cool.

Vote blue that is really a joke 😅

have you seen california? no thanks

@@cuongt3271ikr 😂

Biden cant do anything either, the only people who can do anything about this situation are the respective companies workers, just let them work, they already get enough pressure from their bosses to put up with during these situations, other people bothering them while they're trying to work is just going to slow them down, also keep your bs politics out of this, politicians cant do a thing except complain about what "needs" to be done and never actually do anything.

Vote for county judge

Non sense. You cannot sell it back. Where is your generator? Why do you not have one? Why were you not prepared? If you place your survival solely in the hands of others...you will have a short life. At some point you have to take care of yourself.

@@davidbryant3532 Not sure about generators, but if you have solar you can, its called net metering.

​@@davidbryant3532If we gonna be self-reliant what do we have all these "public" servants for?

@mrsparks138 that is so very true. It would help if people would take personal responsibility rather than rely on others. A small one time investment and they would never worry about electricity. They prefer to smoke it...drink it...or waste it on non essential things

At least someone has some common sense these days.

What is ya'll's obsession with DEI? It's scary. I mean you find a way to bring it up regarding every instance when it has nothing to do with anything just so you can have someone or something to blame. Seek help for that.

@@beautifulsurprise9424Wrong. DEI has been a plague to our society. The evil you-know-whos that rhyme with Dews have infiltrated our society and is slowly, systematically replacing white culture. It has been done for a century now. They have been planting this to eradicate the white race. If you don’t see that, you’re stupid.

Oh just shut up. No one is even talking about race except you. Thanks for letting us know you're a bigot though.

I only see white males in charge.

​@@beautifulsurprise9424just the facts. DEI=lazy, unqualified people over people who know what they're doing.