There are still some houses and businesses in Kingwood that don't have power yet. Unbelievable. Also a TON of debris that the city hasn't picked up yet. We lost power for a couple of hours last night while we were asleep. I don't know what we have to do to keep the power on around here.
[QUOTE="ROCKSS, post: 15289024, member: 489"I am getting a generator and window ac unit[/QUOTE] That is how we lived through this one- Our Honda briefcase generator powered the AC and the window AC. During the off-season, buy an used generator- A new window AC starts around $200. For less than $1000 you can live though power outages- Finding gas is the only problem and making sure the generator can start-
It won't be easy to push Centerpoint out, but it is clear that the frustration with them hasn't gone away. THE WOODLANDS TOWNSHIP AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY EYE SWITCH TO ENTERGY TEXAS AMID CRITICISM OF CENTERPOINT ENERGY'S STORM RESPONSE Amid the aftermath of Hurricane Beryl, a growing number of officials within The Woodlands Township and Montgomery Country are advocating for a significant alteration in their electricity service provision. Frustrated with the persistently erratic power supply and insufficient communication from CenterPoint Energy, these officials hope to see a shift to Entergy Texas as their provider. According to the Houston Chronicle, multiple power outages and surges disrupted the area even before the hurricane, prompting officials to call for a better strategy for establishing power stability. Residents have compared the communication efforts of both companies during power restoration post-hurricane. "Entergy is very good at saying, 'We're going to be out there between the hours of such and such, but we can't give you a timeline that we're going to be putting up,'" said The Woodlands Township board director Brad Bailey. Montgomery County Judge Mark Keough highlighted the challenges of liaising with CenterPoint, indicating that communication with Entergy was much smoother. While the governor has expressed the possibility of diminishing CenterPoint's territory, experts, including Alison Silverstein, an independent consultant, caution that the process would be intricate and complex. The Woodlands Township, nevertheless, has formed new committees aimed at strengthening their influence in legislative affairs and emergency management, signaling unyielding intention to address the recurring issues with CenterPoint Energy. Bailey emphasizes the need for residents' stories and frustrations to be heard by legislative representatives in Austin, Texas.
Holy **** -- really sorry to read that, and I had no idea. It's like: Are we in the developed world or not? I met an engineer once, a NASA guy who grew up in very rural south-central TX and he remembered, in the 1940's, when their community did not yet have electricity. Then the coming of the poles and power lines, and he learned to wire his family home, as a teenager. He could tell stories of true, absolute dark, like a cloudy, rainy night after you turn the little oil lamp off for the night. But that's not even 100 years ago. The things we forget and take for granted.
Typhoon Gaemi made landfall on Taiwan as a Category 4-equivalent hurricane. Taipei was in the worst path (right-hand side) and experienced sustained winds above 100 mph. I spoke with a few co-workers via email. The government is still assessing the damage, but the power infrastructure remains largely intact, with only spotty outages (11k households lost power out of a country of 24 million). They have had their fair share of outages due to power plant accidents, but this shows that power infrastructure can withstand a direct hit from a stronger hurricane. It indicates we can do much better in TX if we invest in our power grid resilience.
It's crazy. Like someone else said in this thread - we should be outraged and expect more from our utilities...but everyone has pretty much moved on already. When it happens again, we'll be outraged again....until we get power back.....and then we'll all move on again.
I like guessing games even though my winning percentage isn't great. Southeast of San Antonio around La Vernia - Stockdale?
I would have to ask my Dad (who knew the guy), but I think it was near Ezzel (Ezell? Edzel?) Middle of nowhere grazing land. (Like even today, apparently.)
People would think texas is a 3rd world country with how crappy the infrastructure is and how little it takes to cause it to fail. smh.
There was an interesting article I read probably a decade ago talking about the problems of being the first "first world" countries when it comes to infrastructure. It talks about how countries like the US, or even Western European countries are often stuck with outdated infrastructure because they were the first to have the "good" infrastructure. The article focused on phones. The US telecommunications was built on land line infrastructure decades before many parts of the world had phones at all. However, when wireless came about, many developing nations "skipped" the lines altogether and went straight to the best wireless infrastructure possible, making the US sort of second teir and having to catch up on wireless compared to some "developing nations." I wonder if the same could be said about power structures...the original power was there in many cases, and the costs to retrofit are very expensive? I dunno...maybe not. Also, some smaller countries have that advantage...they are smaller...they don't have to run as much infrastructure. Texas power does suck though, I'm not trying to make excuses for Centerpoint or anything.
Just checked the NHC website. There’s a yellow x in the Caribbean Sea. Never too seen to leave, I say.
