So a friend of mine from Minnesota that is a lineman said he was called to Houston and arrived on Tuesday and has been sitting in bars drinking and hanging out in hotels waiting for centerpoint to finish signing their contract. As of this morning no action on centerpoint

@niletaylor1103

Ай бұрын

No way! That's insane

@oskinooa

Ай бұрын

Wtf thats messed up

@mibz1117

Ай бұрын

Centerpoint don't want to pay

@rynor2691

Ай бұрын

Centerpoint is claiming that the linemen are working more than 12 hrs a day but more than half of that time the linemen are sitting around waiting to be told where to go and what to do. Why did the Centerpoint CEO get an almost 40 million dollar bonus if his company is this Centerpointle$$?

@mibz1117

Ай бұрын

@@AllUTouch that's what monopolies should be banned.

I left Houston and went to Dallas yesterday. I literally had a emotional and mental break down from this week.

@katcraig7525

Ай бұрын

I'm sorry to hear that. I hope that you are doing better. 💜

@tamjeanell

Ай бұрын

I had my breakdown yesterday as well...get somewhere cool and get some good rest tonight! Its ok to be upset.

@mike_w-tw6jd

Ай бұрын

not having good sleep takes its toll

@jgringo5516

Ай бұрын

I’ve slept in my truck outside in the a/c for 5 days now. I watched Entergy restore power to all my neighbors across the street Tuesday. Still haven’t seen Centerpoint, and it’s Saturday. I’ve walked all the Lines for 3 miles, and there is no damage anywhere. I go to work everyday, then sit at home with thermostat showing 90-92. At dark, I get in my truck. Same thing everyday with no end in sight.

I have no idea where those trucks go, cause I see none

@Sanluispotosi12

Ай бұрын

Thats right!! In crosby they're posting pictures of those trucks but in reality i dont see any of then actually working

@zatticus2281

Ай бұрын

If you look closely they’re still sitting in their trucks it’s all they do

@7WarHammer

Ай бұрын

In the morning they go straight to restaurant for breakfast.

@S20ACE.

Ай бұрын

@@7WarHammermore like a tent with food

@robertpaul6257

Ай бұрын

I saw six trucks in a field in Baytown. The men were sitting inside the trucks with the AC on😂!

We don't UNDERSTAND why our utility grid is so fragile. I hate to see the damage a cat 2 or 3 will do to our area.😢

@onward2727

Ай бұрын

Mass death?… smh

@user-gw7bs9up3l

Ай бұрын

@@kayc5570 that was a cat 2 or 3. Wind speeds were clocked well over 100 mph that their saying. All the dow plants in Freeport have wind measuring equipment. 134 mph in Freeport.

@josephcelestiel6129

Ай бұрын

​@user-gw7bs9up3l nope it was 80mph cat 1. That's a lie

@user-gw7bs9up3l

Ай бұрын

@@josephcelestiel6129 their saying 90 to 100, I don't know where you got 80 at, but that's ignorant. Come down to coast and see the damage and try to tell ppl 80 mph winds did that, and them call them a liar.

@ked147971

Ай бұрын

So there is no regulations on where they have to build new lines. So they take the cheapest option available.

Had to go out of town to get a hotel for relief. A lot of the hotels are booked because of the workers being sent to Houston to help. Day 5 is crazy....Food is already overpriced and now we have to throw it all out and stay from scratch. I'm sure the electricity bill will be higher as if we were using the power the whole time. Smh

@346azul

Ай бұрын

You can bet all in the prices will be higher than a mf not just this month the rest of the year. Who else is paying for the 12000 crews? Definitely NOT Centerpoint

@user-lp5ci9bi2j

Ай бұрын

​@346azul yeah they have to make their millions when probably the majority of their customers make less than 50,000 a year

@mcard48able

Ай бұрын

There is no such thing as " hurricane proof " or "tornado proof" electric grid. People don't understand the complexity of an electric grid. You don't just plug it back in. Poles, transformers, power lines are totally mangled. It takes time to rebuild the grid. I don't understand how people say "they should have been better prepared." You can't prepare for that type of destruction.

@electron7659

Ай бұрын

Why should they charge us for electricity we didn't even use 🤷

@justaskme2904

Ай бұрын

@@electron7659 They shouldn't, but we all know that they will, unfortunately

I have only lived in Texas for about 5 years and I have never experienced such horrific power infrastructure. I lived in Far North Alaska with -60 temp and 80+ mph freezing winds coming off the Arctic Ocean and still had power. You can’t give an excuse good enough for why Texas is failing worse than Motel 6 at keeping the lights on.

@user-gw7bs9up3l

Ай бұрын

@@atheistskeptic8748 You cannot bullet proof the power grid against hurricanes and tornados unless you go underground and then you have water...and BTW, California can't keep the lights on either. Hawaii burned to the ground over their power grid.

Man where the Trucks at it’s hot AF

They’re sending out the trucks earlier but that doesn’t mean they’re working. There is a truck down the road parked and all the workers are laying down on a trailer and on their phones because they can’t start work! 0916 right now.

@bigbearliving8727

Ай бұрын

Sounds like these guys work for the fire department.

Your company was unprepared, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure that out. Centerpoint should buy each of their customers a generator since their response time is terrible

@mibz1117

Ай бұрын

Yup if they are a monopoly and the government should force them to give each customer a backup generator for their shttt service

CENTERPOINTLE$$

@siegedoyle

Ай бұрын

Womp womp

Centerpoint should probably let Patrick know their political donation is already in the mail.🙄

@mike_w-tw6jd

Ай бұрын

and abbott's

It’s sickness we have ppl dying out here we have ppl are getting sick & having to throw out there food , ppl who’s been struggling to put that food in the house , you have ppl who still haven’t even gotten back to work but always wanna praise us to pay or taxes or pay bills on time it’s ridiculous I just feel like we as a nation America is a joke & a scheme

@barrywayne569

Ай бұрын

You can thank governor Abbet for that. Texas is the only state not on the national grid you can thank your geriatric paraplegic governor… he is more concerned about taking the rights away from women and prosecuting women who get abortions that we’re gonna die from the pregnancy. Your Governor is closer to Satan that he is God and unfortunately Texas needs to suffer until they elect a human being closer to God than closer to Satan.

@adambussert3383

Ай бұрын

This is Texas, New York is much better.

@pdkrace

Ай бұрын

Generators are cheaper then phones.

@MamaBecky0811

Ай бұрын

Hey are you a cyraxx troll just wondering cus ur name sorry if u don't know what I'm talking about😊

@bryone6421

Ай бұрын

Sounds like what Capitalist call living under Socialism. Weird right? What if we all worked together and built everyone up? No, that’s Socialism!!! It’s bad and everyone suffers without power and shelter and food. Tent cities will be everywhere! Wait for trickle down!

We are never going to get an honest answer about what's really going on. Just a lot of finger pointing and distracting tactics. Anything to keep the spotlight off the real issue. For the first few days I tried to be really understanding and supportive of Center Point because these things do take time but I think most of us have had about enough. This was only a Cat 1 storm. If our infrastructure can't handle a Cat 1 then what the hell are we even doing?? Ugh.

@yourdadsotherfamily3530

Ай бұрын

Texas Public Utility Commission: (Google the number) PUC won't be much help with this outage, except that it puts your complaint into the public record. Be sure to state that your complaint is not that you don't have power, but rather Centerpoint continuously fails to provide the infrastructure and resources needed to communicate with the public. They refuse to build a basic website that can communicate with their customers in the middle of an outage. They don't provide enough call center people to take phone calls, they don't disseminate basic information to employees to pass on to customers. (Not to mention they can't provide reliable service). Your call to PUC won't fix your problem today, but by getting your complaint into the public record, it makes it harder for the politicians to claim "there is no problem, the grid is working great". It's not working great. It's terrible. It's fragile, unreliable, and more expensive to the consumer than it has to be.

@rynor2691

Ай бұрын

It's not that hard to figure out, Centerpoint and ERCOT are at fault. And the Texas government has been taking lobbyist payments to look the other way and go on vacation while the voters suffer

@charliem6335

Ай бұрын

​@@rynor2691 🎯👍💯🎯👍💯🎯👍💯🎯👍💯

@gm7304

Ай бұрын

Don't boo Vote blue.

@sjferguson

Ай бұрын

@@gm7304 I've been voting blue since I was 18 years old 🙂

80% by sunday? Wtf

@user-lp5ci9bi2j

Ай бұрын

Don't believe it. Those in a nested outage aren't being included and aren't given estimates. Seems like a small amount but my nested outage is 53 homes. A couple blocks over its 32.

Politicians be like " y'all don't need no solar or wind, what you gone do if it's ain't shining and blowin"

@sjferguson

Ай бұрын

Politicians don't want to promote solar or wind because it will cut into their profits because they all own stocks in fossil fuel. Low information voters ( ie: stupid people) will continue to fall for their nonsense about why wind and solar is bad.

@yourdadsotherfamily3530

Ай бұрын

NUCLEARRRRR

@onward2727

Ай бұрын

@@yourdadsotherfamily3530 knowing Houston & Texas, that’ll fail too and it’ll be Chernobyl, Texas Unless we can manage and regulate the greed, corruption, and incompetence…

Incompetent

I moved out of Texas after 35 years. I lost power for 3 to 5 weeks many times due to storms. The heat & humidity was horrendous. My sympathies are with the residents & curses to the big businesses & government who don't give a damn about the people they earn a living from.

The problem is our government is playing pity politics while we’re still suffering with the heat and no power

Reliant better not charge me for these days without power!!!

I see caravans of bucket trucks driving around everywhere but have not once seen any of them working on anything smh 🤦

@jabdav

Ай бұрын

Exactly

@brendachilders8075

Ай бұрын

I’m sure you know what they are looking at too… counting transformers, miles of lines, poles, connections… I just know you could shake out the trucks and linemen faster than those that do it for a living… yep!!

@MrOctavia1000

Ай бұрын

@brendachilders8075 I just know I never see them physically doing anything, sure is a lot of looking. Florida gets more severe hurricanes and don't seem to have this issue

@brendachilders8075

Ай бұрын

@@MrOctavia1000 mmmhmmm….. I’m just sure they do it different, go back to Florida!!!

@MrOctavia1000

Ай бұрын

@brendachilders8075 sorry but Centerpoint dropped the ball, you can defend them all you want

Last year 2023, Austin was without power for TWO WEEKS after an ice storm during January when it was -2 degrees and the power company said they would "keep us updated". Be thankful its 100 degrees and you can go down somewhere to cool off...and not frozen, slick and dangerous. Texas' power grid from Dallas to Houston, Texarkana to Corpus Christi HAS to be the worst in the nation-hands down. This needs to be fixed, its not funny. It's not safe. It's not fair. We pay for reliability not...this

@user-gw7bs9up3l

Ай бұрын

Complain to mother nature, or go ahead and design some hurricane proof power lines or bullet proof that can withstand ice covered limbs falling on them in a hundred year ice storm. And BTW, California holds the record for the most ppl effected by power outages in the US for about the last decade.

@shirleyoswalt616

Ай бұрын

I prefer the cold weather because I'm originally from a northern state and I can survive in sub zero temps but I cant combat the heat. And in winter layers can be used as a source of warmth , but we can only take off so much clothes in summer 😔

@lauriewelsh8554

Ай бұрын

There is nowhere to go cool off and no gas. Please know what you are writing about.

@user-lp5ci9bi2j

Ай бұрын

Where exactly are we going to go cool down? What about people without transportation how will they go?

What's Texas going to do the first time something stronger than a Cat 1 comes through?

Why is it that since the initial repairs to get 1 mil fixed within 48 hrs feel like its gotten slower after that accomplishment. Its been longer since then and youd think they could do it again but its taking longer just for a few 100 thousand maybe more

@StoneInMySandal

Ай бұрын

Jason Wells, the CenterPoint CEO said that because the Texas grid does not comply with industry standards, that all 10,000 out of state workers brought in to do the repairs have to be retrained and certified before they can work on the CenterPoint system.

@BetterWithToast47

Ай бұрын

@@StoneInMySandal sounds like some bs 🙄

@BetterWithToast47

Ай бұрын

@StoneInMySandal yes I am a trained doctor I can save this man's life I am from out of state...ooooo no you see bud our industry standards are different here and require retraining before we can legally allow you to help save this man's life.. bs

I’m just glad I still have electricity. The rest of my family wasn’t so lucky. My sister’s power got cut off for no reason by center point. This is ridiculous man.

@sjferguson

Ай бұрын

😂 it's never for "no reason"

My mom still looking for hotels what is ceterpoint doing

First of all, those numbers are false. Second, there's absolutely nothing to brag about at this juncture. You should be resigning, sir!

@dashingnurse5098

Ай бұрын

Factsss

I guess frustrated is a word to use. I’d use irate.

How are they still saying they will meet their goals with all the forecasted rain??????????? We are screwed

Houstonians go through this stuff a lot. But The dirty side of a category 1 hurricane should not have done this. So what has CenterPoint been doing with all this money that they charge us on these outrageous electric bills for the last decade?

Trusting your power to be uninterupted was your first mistake, trusting a profit driven corporation to mitigate this eventuality was your second mistake..

Great!! The crews were out before sunrise!!!! Those line-men, and Tree-Crews, deserve the respect and appreciation in performing a very dangerous job. Love those crews. Hate the mis-management.

@BetterWithToast47

Ай бұрын

I'm more than sure majority isn't mad at the actual workers we know how much they do for us and I'm sure plenty of people have gone out of their way to show gratitude people are more mad that they have the ability to make the calls and make it happen but instead they have their workers just there or no where to be seen after they take off I get that prep and saftey happens first then they send them in but damn how is it we did a million in 48 hrs and we past another 48 and we have waaaay less done. What are they actually doing..but besides that I will say shout out to all the workers who have to deal with thos who are dumb enough to blame them when all they are doing is the best they can for us

@paladro

Ай бұрын

i don't think anyone is hating on the workers brother, greed of privatization is what this is... they cut costs by shorting manpower and NOT investing in proper and robust redundancies, those cost 'savings' go right into the pockets of management for being so clever and cheating the customers... with a government run and regulated utility, you wouldn't have the greed that fills fat cat pockets, in lieu of actually providing affordable and reliable service.

Temporarily change the name of Houston to the Ukraine and youll get billions of dollars immediately.

@mike_w-tw6jd

Ай бұрын

u cra-z

Why has center point ser up any food and water distribution centers in the areas that are still affected

Man this doesn’t make any sense it’s day 5 I am in greentea Pearland Tx still nothing wtf

@zacb7427

Ай бұрын

Same just got power on my street but can still hear others still running there generators near by

Extensive interview? Softball questions, no attempt to hold them to account for their lack of performance. The Houston news media need to take a look at themselves, you are not supposed to the lap dogs of the utility you are supposed to speak truth to power

@denisekoltys3019

Ай бұрын

Houston Politicians being Democrat means if the media tells the truth they will be unemployed and unemployable.

@Will-p5j

Ай бұрын

You are not much of a man if you can't take responsibility's for your failures. Abbott and Patrick will never MAN UP..

You are not much of a man if you can't take responsibility's for your failures. Abbott and Patrick will never MAN UP..

Thank you to all of the utility crews and workers. You are truly a blessing. Thank you HEB for supporting your customers in catastrophic circumstances once again. I got free ice when I went to get food to refill all that I have thrown out. Thank you police officers that have come to help our community. Thank you all volunteers who have come to help. We the voting people need to deal with the Texas government causing these power and water issues. Our infrastructure needs serious work.

My aunt has Entergy and was told she won’t get power back till at least Wednesday. We are in Westchase have Centerpoint and have damage to our lower, household power lines from a tree falling and I don’t expect to get any attention from them for weeks. I JUST had my trees trimmed and one removed last Friday, but the one tree I wasn’t worried about is the ones that fell. Of course.

@tamjeanell

Ай бұрын

So sorry to,hear this

I'm losing patience and I'm frustrated too, and I'm in Wisconsin.

@USA.RE3

Ай бұрын

😂

@LaChriss-

Ай бұрын

😂💪🏻

People should be punished for this, fired, or something. Texas leaders are acting foolish and emberressing texas.

All my neighbors have power but me and is frustrating that they just need to send a technician to connect my home to the power post and they keep on saying there’s no technician

My brother is still without power. He does have a generator for fridge and freezer, but I can't imagine the heat. Continued prayers 🙏

Centerpoint does not care. They care about money only. They don't want to spend the money to keep the easements clear and take other measures they know would prevent this. its the same old story.

@andyleal8743

Ай бұрын

Centerpoint is garbage.

@MoTiiOnNz

Ай бұрын

yes I called them to come take down a big pine tree that was too close to power lines and they didn't do anything

This guys is something else with CENTERPOINTLESS

@philliphall5198

Ай бұрын

He’s a born liar 😢

Even with power, it’s at 50%. We can’t even power stoves, microwaves, or washers/dryers. This is such BS.

@user-lp5ci9bi2j

Ай бұрын

What? You have power but it's not working properly?

CENTER POINTLESS!! 🤟🏼💯

Had to bring my family to Dallas just get a hotel room on Wednesday.

@surmise9211

Ай бұрын

Wow! Be safe

Centerpointless

@mike_w-tw6jd

Ай бұрын

centerpointle$$

It’s going to be over 2 weeks folks and that’s just how it is 😢😢😢 So very sorry

Very frustrating, why the street across my house have power since Tuesday

Not only the lights are gone terrible phone service across Houston barley have street lights no schools and we still have to return to work in this condition all hotels fema helping us with are all booked out this is ridiculous

Can I get a refund on my groceries I purchased the day before the storm!?!?!?

He should have finished the sentence “we are going to work until everyone has power EVEN IF IT TAKES TO CHRISTMAS “

Word from the out of state linemen is Centerpoint won't assign them work until pay is negotiated. Centerpoint expects them to pay for their own motels and food, and work for next to nothing.

@user-lp5ci9bi2j

Ай бұрын

What? I thought all those rv looking things in the parking lots were for them. Were there not enough or they did not like the accommodations and choose hotels?

Good thing the Astros are playing here in Houston with plenty of electricity for stadium while my 89 year old dad and 80 year old mom are still suffering in heat with no electrify in Kingwood and no timetable when it will be on. ! Thanks center point They have their priorities right 🙏

I noticed that the centerpointless executive is lecturing Houstonians, while his lights and air conditioning on. Bro, you are up past your bedtime if you're going to try to lecture us.

Yall better stop driving like idiots..driving in pride...GOD is humbling you! Be considerate!

Centerpoint Administration is to blame. Lack of leadership and accountability while Dan Patrick hiding in the bush because I haven’t a thing about him

Very Proud? wtf?? Your proud of this BS😒😒

We are miserable. 💯 Day 5, no power !!!. 😢

I know only one person that has had their power turn back, I know of 2 that didn’t loose their power, the rest SOL 🤨

Yesterday was the most trucks I ever seen (day 4). "prepared"

Crippled governor can’t fix crippled power grid

@strangeroamer3219

Ай бұрын

He's too busy going on vacation and criticizing Biden on immigration. He doesn't have time to care about Texans not having power.

Fire the Mayor!

@user-lf4ux7dm7g

Ай бұрын

Yes. Because he's in charge of the state power grid.

@mike_w-tw6jd

Ай бұрын

but he says it was sylvesters fault

In Kingwood Tx still no power and the latest is they say “We will continue to provide estimated restoration times as they become available’ 6 days now ! My dad is 89 and my mom is 80. 🙏

I knew a very high source connected to the power company south of the beltway. I asked why, after so many line failures in the past the company didn't just bury vulnerable lines. It wouldn't even need to start with old lines... just the newer subdivisions from about 20 years ago. He just laughed and said it was too expensive up front. And before someone mentions the water table, it is very feasible to bury lines in most of Texas. Being from Louisiana where graves sit above ground, burials in the Houston metro are the standard "6 feet under". There's some tipping point and I think it's been reached. It's been all about profit for some time and now it needs to be about service. At least if you HAVE to hang a line on a pole, get something stronger than a toothpick.

@mike_w-tw6jd

Ай бұрын

great comment

@electron7659

Ай бұрын

Again, too expensive to get anything stronger than a toothpick. In fact, to save them money, they searched for the cheapest toothpick they could find..............they must have ordered a bundle pack from AliExpress. 🤔

Centerpoint's Restoration Map shows my entire area has power. But there are large portions of my zipcode and the adjacent zip code that are still without power. Lies and deceit. Ridiculous.

Centerpointless is a new name going around.

The intro music is relaxing 🤷

4 days for some of us Sugar Landers.

the money t hey are making with overtime,,, they are not in a hurry,,, they will come home with a years pay..

@dashingnurse5098

Ай бұрын

They should have offered the training and benefits to Houstonians beforehand... liars!

MAPS ARE STILL WRONG MAPS ARE STILL WRONG MAPS ARE STILL WRONG

I heard Centerpoint forced Centerpoint workers from other states to come help here but don't even offer housing/hotels and food while they work.

CenterPoint’s restoration map has shown our my neighbors and our home has power since they first published the map earlier this week. We all lost power about 5am Monday. Houses in our neighborhood all around us had power restored within hours, others the next day. Now their map shows (1) we have power now, (2) our power restoration date is being evaluated, and (3) our power will not be restored until after July 19. So which is it!? Do they think we have power? Do they know we don’t have power? We see no crews working in our neighborhood. There is no way to report the map is wrong or get a clarification on our status.

Pathetic. Even pitiful Alabama gets power up pretty fast. All those poor people! Hard-working electrical worker doing the best they can with what they can.

@robertpaul6257

Ай бұрын

Bs!

WONDERFUL. I wonder if the Governor's Mansion has power and air?

Centerpointle$$

So much for your elected officials checking ahead of time to make sure everyone is set up.

From what I heard on the news on the outage map new colors, and they are calling my color “teal” which is the worse color to have. It’s say for “teal” there are NO dates when you will have power!

Why lie i want cold beer😅😅

Can anyone give me the infos? Where I can get free food? No work 5 days straight. BS

you get what you vote for

Not the workers fault its there management

Centerpoint is now threatening to charge $109 per trip if the outage is a problem with your breaker box. Can you believe over 1 million people still without power and they are trying for more charges. This info is from Centerpoint voice-mail that is finally working. 3:26 info

It took less time for Pennsylvania to re build an entire high traffic, highway overpass after their freakish truck explosion disaster!

The best coment is the one thanking all the Real people who are here in Texas ready to help but those in power are more concerned about the cost of their own profit than the Texas Voters who pay them thru the nose and need them to do the job we pay taxes and high bills for.

It’s time for there be other power providers. CP should not be allowed to keep having a monopoly. The CEO makes millions.

They been without power for a month or longer the tornado before the hurricane knocked power out 3 weeks before the hurricane.

Thanks channel 2 news

California still has power.

Get rid of Centerpointless….they have been failing horribly

Now day 6. IF YOU HAVE A NESTED OUTAGE YOU DO NOT HAVE AN ETA. WE SHOW UP ON THE MAP AS REPAIRED.

Thank GOD we just power we live in Willis by lake Conroe

Only in a disaster we can tell if the government and companies are good.

We’ve had no power all week, it ain’t that bad tho

"Every thing's Bigger in Texas" .....including incompetency. How many more reasons does anyone need to avoid this cesspool? ("Houston ...the energy capital of the world". .....gimme a break.)

I still don't have power in my home, and i just spend 3 days already with my sister in law house.

Wait until we get a real storm. Some people will not have power for over a month. people are crying about no power for 3 days. LOL

Politicians are playing games

in the NW Fla panhandle, we’ve gone 7-14 days ALOT ….waiting for power restoring after hurricanes. I do Not understand why these people can’t understand it takes time ….🤷🏻

@justaskme2904

Ай бұрын

It's never taken this long before. We have hurricanes just like Florida. We aren't being unreasonable in the expectation. And if you have gone 2 weeks without electricity, that's not a bragging right.

@prmath

Ай бұрын

@@justaskme2904 “not a bragging right” but just the way it was a few years back 🤷 I worked with Ma Bell restoring phone lines and after hurricanes and things aren’t normal. Keeping the rubberneckers out of the way was also another issue.

@USA.RE3

Ай бұрын

Day 5 "Off-Grid" (no power)... Promises were made by Abbott years ago after more than 70 people died during a winter storm... We still have -"late 19 Century technology"- electric poles for cables in rural areas and cities, exposed transformers and unprotected generators (from air, rain and winter)... I am not sure if ERCOT includes every company that owns the infrastructure in Texas, but they have had plenty of time to rebuild, modernize and ultimately develop a network that has the capacity to supply the growing demand and a reliable grid across our State. My comments are not about "bashing" or calling for people to be fired... the intention is to instill in the companies the will to Build systems with the high-quality that American ingenuity and American products used to have...