forecast says it will rain tomorrow, fri, sat, and sun. hopefully, HOPEFULLY, that will cool it down a little for those who doesn't have power. however, for those who has damage to their house are not gonna like the rain in the forecast.
Remember when really stupid Texans would laugh at CA power problems as a result of liberal policies? Unfortunately those really stupid people keep voting for Abbot and his ilk.
The Spectrum Texas outage is an annoyance....but at least I have electricity, so not too upset about it. I hope those of you with out power get it back soon.
People forgot (in less than 2 weeks) how massive Beryl was -- they saw the cat 1 rating and thought nbd. Same thing happened with Ike -- giant storm but cat 2 no prob.
Anyone seeing restoration progress in the East End? Trying to gauge for my family who is there without power.
https://www.centerpointenergy.com/en-us/corporate/about-us/news/1775 CenterPoint Energy restores more than 640,000 customers impacted by Hurricane Beryl Tuesday-July-9-2024 Houston — July 9, 2024 – CenterPoint Energy is working around-the-clock to restore power to the 2.26 million customers affected by Hurricane Beryl. The storm significantly impacted CenterPoint's service territory, with damaging winds reaching 97-miles-per-hour in Brazoria County, 89-miles-per-hour in Harris County, and 78-miles-per-hour in Galveston County, according to the Houston-Galveston National Weather Service. The destructive winds caused significant damage to certain parts of the electric grid, including hard-hit areas such as Galveston, where 250 poles on a single circuit are down and Brazoria County, where hundreds of trees are uprooted and on power lines. As of 3 p.m. CT, approximately 24 hours since it was safe to release its crews into the field, CenterPoint has restored power to more than 640,000 customers, with approximately 1.6 million still affected. Based on current progress with its damage assessment and restoration efforts, CenterPoint continues to expect to have 1 million of the 2.26 million impacted customers restored by the end of the day tomorrow. As restoration progresses, CenterPoint will provide customers with more detailed service restoration expectations. CenterPoint tracked Hurricane Beryl from its initial development and took steps to secure mutual assistance support before the storm made landfall. Crews were positioned in locations where they would be safe when the storm hit. As soon as it was safe to do so yesterday, CenterPoint deployed crews into the field to begin damage assessment, cut-and-clear and restoration. The company has secured nearly 12,000 frontline workers to support restoration efforts. “We want our customers to know that our preparation for hurricane season is something we focus on year-round. For this event, we are using all available resources to safely and quickly restore power to those who have been impacted. We understand how difficult it is to be without electricity in July and we are committed to working around-the-clock until every last customer is restored," said Lynnae Wilson, Senior Vice President, Electric Business. “We appreciate the hard work from mutual assistance utilities and first responders who are supporting our efforts." The company continues to prioritize its restoration efforts on essential facilities critical to health and public safety. CenterPoint has deployed its mobile generation units, including an emergency facility, a cooling center and a non-profit organization serving families with seriously ill children. CenterPoint will continue to provide general outage information such as total outage counts – updated approximately every 5 to 15 minutes – at CenterPointEnergy.com/StormCenter. CenterPoint's electric customers are encouraged to enroll in Power Alert Service® to receive outage details and community-specific restoration updates as they become available. For information and updates, follow @CenterPoint for updates during inclement weather events. - See more at: https://www.centerpointenergy.com/en-us/corporate/about-us/news/1775#sthash.6T5VX88j.dpuf
Center point workers have a terribly dangerous job in the heat and get blamed for not fixing millions of outages sooner. That's not fair at all Blame the idiot engineers or contractor that made the transmission towers that fall over in 80-100 mph winds. It's crazy we lost those. Any wind outage not tied to trees or debris is not excusable and needs remedy.
Sorry, bro! I'm glad you got your power back on. I'm actually in Austin so it was predicted we would get it but then it turned away and completely avoided Austin. My folks are still without power and my in-laws lost a car from falling trees. Beryl knocked Houston pretty bad even though the early models thought it wouldn't go near it.
Power restored. Big respect for people who lived in Houston prior to a/c and deodorant. Those were some hard people. I was probably 1 or 2 days away from selling my house and moving to Alaska.
Ike's tropical storm winds extended almost double the miles as Beryl's. Ike made landfall a little further north on the coast so not all of the Houston area remained in its dirty side, whereas Beryl basically the entire metro was in the bad side for hours. I agree with Beryl being underestimated. Looked like a South Texas/Mexico storm and all of a sudden became a Houston one. Quite a few of my folks over there still don't have power. Mind blowing to me. Yall better riot this ****
Ok. Let's bury the cables and wire then. Oh, we can't because it floods all the time? Alrighty, now what? All houstonian wants is for the city to join a major grid. Too hot? Grid might go down. Too cold? Grid might go down. Too windy? Grid might go down. We're not blaming the workers. We're blaming the officials for allowing this to happen. Centerpoint also should have workers already on the move to Houston on Sunday if they're out of state contractors.
Lol, Alaska is a really cold place. I would rather live in Houston than in Alaska. More importantly, every city has weather problems, not just Houston. Look at the West and East coast. They are battling heat and wildfires right now.
