Beryl was handled horribly, specifically by CenterPoint.
How about next time, regardless if a hurricane appears to be going an opposite direction, we still have crews in the Houston area just in case of any last minute turns!
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I’ve been saying for years that our leadership from the Governor on down to the local dog catcher has not been putting enough effort into planning to mitigate future disasters. They need to be more proactive and less reactive.
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History shows again and again
How nature points out the folly of man
Godzilla!
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Anybody who’s familiar with hurricanes know they are unpredictable and make a last minute shift. Centerpoint dropped the ball as well as our political leaders.
Pretty sure Centerpoint turned iff the power themselves in alot of cases.
Half my apartments complex got power last night then low and behold with zero crews in the area, i got power randomly today. Someone forgot is flip the switch…
Considering the storm we had just about a month ago, CenterPoint should have been battle tested and ready for this storm.
What is concerning to me is how a relatively small Cat 1 did so much damage to Centerpoint’s infrastructure. Simply, this should not have happened. If Ike, Harvey, Alicia, and Allison couldn’t do it, how the hell did little Beryl?
Poor maintenance, upkeep, lack of upgrades, poor planning, and pursuit of the almighty dollar at the expense of the public welfare. Years of this, with little to no governmental oversight.
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All that is bad for the stock price. Prep and maintenance doesn’t translate to earnings.
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I was without power for 3 weeks after Ike and 1 week after Harvey., so I teally
can’t judge this event to those 2 just yet. For this event it was only 8 hours for me ; however
some family members are in day 3/4 and counting without power.
Trees fall and take down power lines , even if you have them properly trimmed.
I most amazed at Centerpoint’s inability to have an accurate outage map for the public.
If they could provide real time stats on fuses that needed to be reset or replaced, transformers that
needed to be replaced, poles that have to be set, etc, it would help in PR of what is happening.
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I got on Houston AM radio for the first time in years. Same programming. No emergency updates, no mention of where to get gas, ice, etc. no mention of neighborhoods that got power.
The whole city is Busch League. Like people want to hear gardening shows right now.
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ERCOT took over the grid totally in 1996. All board members are political appointees, and the board selects the CEO. Nearly all come from the Power industry. Connect the dots.
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Advertisers for gold bullion and ED meds pay good money to be on AM/FM radio.
Plenty of ways to get word out. For the record, several Houston radio stations, including KUHF, are in the Emergency Alert System, but I guess that’s just for duck-and-cover stuff.
If they do prep work and maintenance in advance, the cost of that roles to them, if they do emergency repairs after the cost is picked up by the government.
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Beryl blew over more huge trees in my neighborhood then those other storms did
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I expect They will tack on surcharges to cover these events. They will make a proposal to
the PUC to cover expenses and pretty sure they will approve it.
Research and advocacy nonprofit As You Sow released a study earlier this month identifying the top 100 most overpaid CEOs in the country. According to As You Sow’s analysis, Centerpoint CEO David J. Lesar’s $37,809,810 salary last year made him the 12th most overpaid U.S. chief executive.
Lesar’s $37.8 million take-home surpassed the average pay of As You Sow’s 100 most overpaid CEOs by nearly $700,000, or about 366 times the median CenterPoint worker’s salary, according to an As You Sow press release.
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Thanks for that info; those are shocking numbers for a company that’s had an outage
map down since May.
But look at that stellar stock performance. Worth every penny.
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Shun to think what a category 5/4/3 would do this area, better head for the hills.
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Question, how many of the 5 million people affected by the storm downloaded and completed this list provided by Click2Houston for hurricane preparedness?
The reason I ask is why on earth would the McDonalds on Studewood and Shipley’s on N. Main have lines running out to the roads if people were prepared?
I had no idea a glazed donut and a Big Mac were part of the life saving steps for a hurricane’s aftermath. Some people should be pointing at themselves.
Also, look at the amount of uprooted trees from a Cat 1 storm. Did anyone on here think of our two major droughts in ‘22 and ‘23 and then the over saturated spring we went through this year?
Have you noticed how the trees laid down due to the top soil just giving way like a hot knife cutting through butter? Oh yeah, the hurricane list says to tie down your trees best you can.
We’re at 72 hours and people have absolutely lost their minds by using up their data and cell battery to feverishly punch the keys and blame an entity for not having power after a storm. What the heck happened to Houston Strong?
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