it depends on the trees dumbazz. My trees are still intact and I live behind power lines and not one got knocked down. Let people talk they **** and you stfu and go clear the debris from your neighbor house. I bet you live on river oaks you shill.
The national image is changing with every storm and outage. Houston is to flooding as Buffalo is to blizzards. Texas is to power outages as California is to wildfires. It's no longer enough to be thankful for Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Demand better.
This thread is so ugly. My dad is still without power and he’s almost 80. How can any houstonian just have so little compassion for their neighbors?
People like bobbythegreat are not nice people. Nothing else to really say he's just not good people. Hopefully if they have a child they can change the trajectory of their genetics and be a decent human. Perhaps get more of the mom's side in that regard if she doesn't have a grey void where a heart is supposed to be. This is all presuming homeboy has ever been capable of getting laid.
The "snowflake" and "libtard" comments are so stupid. Texas is either 1st, 6th or 9th in the country for least reliable power grid depending on which method you use to evaluate. Centerpoint's ratings in particular are in the toilet and continue to get worse. It's insane that people's response to that is "grow a pair and buy a generator to run your ac you 83 year old widow!" Expecting the businesses that run the state to strive to be at least average in reliability shouldn't be a snowflake goal. This state and to a lesser extent this country are so Fd over by our willingness to accept ****. Entire cell service areas crashed completely for days. Power for days. HEB is in a fight with Centerpoint over this nonsense. Yet dipshit posters are like "oh I'm a big boy with a big penis look at my generatorz!" (Yes I have a generator)
Waiting for the number of deaths being reported for folks who don’t know how to properly use a generator. They are super high maintenance.
You read this thread and you realize how Dan Patrick is still in office. Texas - let's make everything as hard on the end-user/consumer as possible with the exception of buying guns. Lulz. Public schools? You're ****ed. Road projects you didn't ask for? You're ****ed. Electricity? Works fine, oh wait it got a little TOO COLD in February? You're ****ed. Waiting on Abbott to release your flood money? You're ****ed. Corp of Engineers flooded your home? Need your lawsuit money? You're ****ed. Want it to be easy to vote? Good luck ****er. Could small govt help these issues? Yes. Is TX pro-small govt? LULZ. Spend more on police than most countries? So low crime right? LULZ. Speeding tickets high though, right? YES! LULZ! Yall can continue to take it up the ass from every direction, the rest of us will continue to demand better.
A big bunch of factors contributed to this: It was more powerful, longer over land than expected. Most likely due to momentum of intensifying before landfall, it stayed a hurricane 30-50 miles more inland than expected. (Ike was actually weakening when it came to shore in 2008) NAILED the worst possible path...the vast majority of Houston where the vast majority of people live got NAILED by the dirty, strong side of the storm. Weakened trees from 3 years of freezes and droughts led to additional downed trees. Fairly wet soil from previous rains led to weaker dirt around root systems A non-hardened infrastructure that needs updating. Even if "new development" bury lines, it doesn't help if the transmission lines to that development get knocked out and are under an oak tree. Piss poor planning by Centerpoint and a weak county judge to make sure it got done. Centerpoint not having people already staged Centerpoint apparently being a logistics cluster F
tomorrow will be 4 days without power. I PRAY to GOD it won't be 2 weeks. Good lord. and guess what? more rain/thunderstorm is coming. get ready to lose power again because the infrastructure is completely broken.
I got a message saying maybe tomorrow, but I am not holding my breath....................I said this way earlier in the thread but is there some type of etiquette about running them at night? It is so LOUD, I live in a townhome, and we share a back alley where are garages are and everyone has there's outside in the drive and holy moly its deafening. Last night I finally said F it and took my air mattress and slept in my Conf room at work, we have a kitchen and shower and AC so while it sucked it wasn't AS bad
I was there before the 90s when the actual Chinatown was in St. Emanuel, not Bellaire. Lived around High Star in a subdivision where there used to be a tennis court on Briar Glade. I moved out after 4th grade because our house kept broken into.
