Texas is always worried about usless things but never about preparing for natural disasters.

How about fixing and upgrading the dang power grid?

They are not racing. They don’t seem to understand the urgency. Something needs to be done about the infrastructure in Southeast Texas.

Remember that promise to reinforce the grid years ago after that hard freeze? That was Abbott. It didn't happen. Empty promises are the norm.

That restoration map doesn’t work. Many many people complaining it’s a false map link.

Help is on the way he won't leave you behind Ted Cruz

The wind was 80-92 mph. One theory is that the previous drought weaken tall trees & they fell in groves . Many times on utility lines. Several parts of greater Houston lost cell phone reception , too.

This is precisely why I left Florida after 27 years to move back to the northeast. Today it’s Texas, tomorrow it’s Florida.

Centerpoint is responsible for electricity in Houston and when you call them to check on the status of repairs, they make you wait and play ads trying to sell you a generator. So they have no incentive to fix the grid.

THEY ARE NOT RUSHING ANYTHING. THEY ARE DEREGULATED.

Abbott and Cruz need to get to work and upgrade the electric grid and stay out of people's personal lives

"Officials restore power"? You folks are clueless! When was the last time you saw a state rep, a governor, etc. up on a lift bucket repairing power lines?

I’m in the energy corridor! We still don’t have power! It’s been 4 days! Yet neighbors around down the street have power! SMH! Yeah!! Ok it’s 9:35 pm!! Even gasoline is difficult to obtain! Thank God for a power bank!!!

Day four no lights and it’s sad there are over 12000 trucks and we see them standing around at lows not working what’s really going on

I certainly HOPE that Power can be restored quickly! This kind of heat and humidity is very dangerous...even lethal.

They just restored power this afternoon in Livingston.. I watched ambulance after ambulance going up and down the street I live on the last 3 days.. Not sure what all these power workers are doing in their every day job, but what I seen is trees knocking down power lines.. well you got your power lines right along a tree line.. what do you expect will happen when storm comes.. it will knock down all the trees into the power lines.. that is terrible management in my humble opinion.. time for the director of operations to find all these trouble spots and clear trees away, in fact you can get some logger companies to award them some contracts, they can pay the state so much for the logs they take in certain areas near the power lines.. I am sure logging companies would love logs for the cheap!! There should be no trees next to power lines which could put a million people out of power.. its ridiculous. And Livingston has a dam also which is ready to burst, and what should happen is, get federal funding and build a hydro dam for Livingston.. it would bring in more cheap power, and would help to support further the Livingston area.. trees knock over some power lines 150 miles away and Livingston is without power.. and honestly, power lines should be put underground.. then you do away with all these power line problems every time a storm runs through..

Is Rafael Cruz monitoring everything from Cancun?

Thank You JEC.I live 10 miles from the close's town is Ganado,TX.My power went out around 9 or 10 pm(SWEAT time).By 10 AM the next morning it was back on, didn't lose anything in my freezers except ice cream.THANKS again Jackson Electric Coup.

My dad lives in Alvin, Texas. He lost power early Monday morning. Texas-New Mexico Power estimates power will not be back on, at the earliest, until Saturday evening at 10:00pm.

The POWER HAS NOT BEEN RESTORED IN KLEIN, SPRING TX 77379 AND OTHER ZIP CODES. I REPEAT AFTER 4 DAYS OUR POWER HAS N O T BEEN RESTORED. WE HAVE SENIORS AND PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND SITTING UNDER PITCH DARK. NOT SLEPT PROPERLY FOR 4 DAYS

Where is our governor

the outage map is experiencing an outage....

Yea a week till the power is up is racing... fix the damn power grid. Prevention is the best fix.

Welp. Looks like all the trucks are in the parking lot. 🙆‍♂️

Weird I had power since Monday night…

Good luck to everyone.

Yes, they are frustrated but that does not excuse gathering in crowds around line crews - most of whom have come into Houston from places 100's of miles away to help - and shouting abuse, curses, throwing bottles and rocks -- all to get the power on quicker? No wonder the world is such a mess - too many places where civility and love of neighbor no longer exist.

Not seeing them rush!

I went through the heart of this hurricane and having been through other hurricanes in the past, this was NOT a category 1!! It was a solid 3 or 4. There were hundred mile an hour winds constantly for hours.

Racing a snail’s pace.

Houston's an oil town. There's no global warming there, right?

Get prepared, people. The time is NOW! The government is not going to help you, it is up to YOU! Get yourself a medium-sized generator that will run a window-unit A/C. Keep a decent supply of gas on hand (10 gallons would last 3 days running generator sparingly). Also, have generator and space heater ready for the next ICE STORM (remember that? Did you PREPARE after that nightmare?)

Not prepared at all.

people are leaving Houston by the tens of thousands .. no gas, food, or water. Day 5

Which officials?

Please hurry turn lights on got 2 kids they are hot no money for generator or a hotel. They should be giving lo income people generators help turn power on

Please raced where

What about 45 and 1960

Jaykee the Wolf: hey, luis. since when does a tropical storm turn into a hurricane upon reaching land? Luis: pretty much since never was invented. however, whatever the hell freak storm hit houston less than a month ago, that came out of nowhere and tore a lot of downtown houston has now been perfected. Jaykee the Wolf: Now hurricanes can be shake and baked?? someone fukcing with the weather?? Luis: yep.

But companies are moving there in droves. The difference is that companies are designing their own power redundancy. This way the companies still get the low tax environment but also get their power stabilized. The citizens just need to pull themselves up by their boot straps.

I'll bet Cancun Cruz & their glorious leader Gov Abbot have their AC set to 70 F and all their lights on. Cool & comfy. 😂🤡🤡🤡🤡

Hyperthermia is the danger...

mexico news

Texas 😏

TX = 3rd World

Houston is Not “ South East Texas”. Houston is simply East Texas. Reporter needs to do better research. 🙄

Dear Lord please send your angels to help the workers restore power in Jesus name amen

The nation's 3rd largest city! 😅

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Don't Tread On Me - I know folks in Texas are not waiting on the Government.

Sure they are.