Houston power outage restoration efforts continue Wednesday
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- Efforts to restore power to more than a million people continue on Wednesday, two days after Hurricane Beryl made landfall on the Texas coast. CenterPoint Energy released a restoration progress map.
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We are sick and tired of paying high electric bills and getting nothing in return
Organize protests and stop paying them. The consumer has the power, they just need to organize, and hold the power company for ransom. They'll get paid when they agree to your terms.
Omg yes my Bill due on June 19
$ 273 , I'm always on time
It sucks
The PUCT (Public Utility Commission of Texas) regulates rates and charges that Centerpoint then shows you on your electric bill. I’m keeping close eyes on how they react
invest in Solar panels you can run a 12VDC car rad fan from 1 $80 panel to get some cooling while you wait.
@@nancycortez1231 and especially when you can't use it
Someone needs to sue centerpoint
Class action
texas will just protect them like they did during the freeze.
Pretty sure our Attorney General will be on that asap. CenterPoint has lost ALL credibility.
We can't government immunity
@@pamelairvin3164can't tell if that is sarcasm, you know about Paxton, right?
This is ridiculous if CenterPoint is not severely fined for this it should show at the voting booth for the individuals allowing such behavior to continue
@@JackJones-mn7tb Just a bunch of skimmers ripping everybody off.
It should show at the polls either way! This is absurd
Lina hidalgo needs to be in jail. Faked crazy to get out of voting fraud
It's not them. They are waiting on politicians and corporations to agree on what to pay the line workers.
‘damage assessment’ is a code word for ‘i haven’t done s**t to restore your power’
Exactly ...and then the guy talking about we understand people want their power back BUT...BUT nothing. This is ridiculous
@@Khyyyyyyyyyyyy people will remember this in upcoming elections!!!!
I see them all parked ! They working so hard 😂😂😂😂
They have to find the locations where the damaged lines are, what good is it if they are just driving around. The grid is complex, if they energize it now, down lines can start fires and that’ll be something else you complain about.
BAM! 😊
The fact that a Cat 1 did all this is incomprehensible. 😑
Our power is still out. 3 miserable days and 2 miserable nights without power. It really is ridiculous that our infrastructure is this feebile.
We had no power for 12 days when hurricane Ike hit Houston back in 2008!
@@bweaver760yea but they working so hard they have to have a meeting first ! 😂😂you saying it’s ok 😂I see them all the time the illegal city worker are just milking it ! Thats how they get paid 😂 contracts ;) remember that word
We all need to united and protest ! I see many saying this and I agreed
@@jackaboyx3 it’s not the infrastructure, it’s people in charge of fixing it.
@@Operator_68go sit in the car and turn the ac on you’ll be igh, yall complaining more than people with no where to stay, and no car, tired of you mfs doing all this bitching.. it’s people homeless, go lay down somewhere
Center Point was not prepared. And nothing will happen to THEM, but WE will pay more moving forward.
Exactly! We need to stop this.
God bless all the men and women working to get our power back online.
They need to spend LESS RESOURCES & LESS TIME WORKING ON THOSE STUPID FKING INACCURATE MAPS, AND MORE TIME ON THE POWER LINES !!!!!
Why does Fox26 News just present the map willy nilly without checking accuracy and if its actually providing information that is helpful. CP has no credibility and you guys sound like CenterPoint shills. Help us!
Just yesterday they stated their tracker been down since may .. won’t be updated til august making it harder to track outages .. out of who’s ass this outage map came from ?
UNREAL! THESE CLOWNS MUST GO TO PRISON!
Honestly yeah someone is gonna die in this heat
Pathetic, every time same situation
Ted Cruz wants your vote!
Pathetic is the only word to describe center point
One of the worlds largest economies.......with the worst grid ......
Houston??
The map Center Point Energy released last night has bad data. It shows energized lines where there is still no power and lines in the queue to be repaired where there is already power. I feel the Company is misleading the public, which could do further harm, all in an effort to put any information out to save face. They should pull this map and not mislead the public. What if a person uses the little bit of gas they have to get home because it appears they have power and when they get there they have no power and no way to refuel to leave again.
Exactly.
CenterPoint Energy can be forced to upgrade its power infrastructure through a combination of regulatory mandates, legislative actions, industry standards, market pressures, and legal requirements. What matters now is if Abbott or Cruz care enough to start the process
@@JessAbstract this has been going on since Hurricane Ike 15 years ago
When will people realize, its delayed on purpose. Demons feed off of the pain and suffering.
@@SonsoftheEagle Very possibly so.
Oh yeah bring on the electric cars we can handle our power grids great bring on the electric cars our government is destroying our damn country
85 degrees?! Try 100 smh
We have had 100 and over 100 before
The power goes down all the time and not just from hurricanes. If it’s too hot, too cold or the wind blows a bit too hard, Houston’s plunged into darkness. At what point does addressing the problem become a priority??
Cat 1 hurricane and ppl lose power. What kind of 3rd world is this
Texas
It was pretty strong winds cat 1 are what those hurricane can knock down tree tower in power cord…
It's call murica
While we suffer in the fucking heat our Texas politicians are in different states or countries having the best time of there lives and we suffer.
Those trucks haven't moved!! I passed them this morning, and the lot was full of them. I passed them this afternoon, and they were all still there. Soooooo when are they going to start??
They're going to be like FEMA and just start to rescue us on 4 or 5 days....
So it's Centerpoint going to give us some kind of refund to compensate for all this days??
I mean when you don't pay your bill by midnight on the due date
By 12:01am your power it's gone 😂😂
Mfers
This is not a very user-friendly map on mobile.
What a crock of 💩!! That map is inaccurate, it claims some of places are restored and it’s not. It’s 2024, and here we are in Texas running around like it’s the 1920’s. Unacceptable!!
They need to work faster I’m having a heat stroke
Me too. I started throwing up this morning because of this heat.
A 85 degree house? My God that man is totally clueless.... Houses will be heating up into the high 90's by later this evening and that is deadly! Smh! OTOH, Texans need to stop hating on Dolar so much!
My house was 88 degrees
They are saying all this while they are in their news rooms with AC and power. Lmao
Mannnnnnnnn GET OUR LIGHTS ON NOW GOT DAMN IT😩😩😩 ITS SO HOT , ITS MAKING US SICK 😩😩 AND THEN, CENTER POINT HAS ONE SIDE OF THE LIGHTS ON, ON ONE SIDE OF THE STREET AND THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STREET HAD NONE TF!!! WE ARE PISSED, WE ARE TIRED, WE ARE HOT, WE ARE SICK, AND SOMEONE IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD LOST THEIR ELDERLY MOTHER DO TO THIS HEAT & NO POWER 😥😞... MY DADDY 79YRS OLD I HAD TO GET MY DAD OUT OF HIS HOUSE BECAUSE OF THIS, CENTER POINT SMFH y'all use the storms to help Ercot, to make us save energy cause ppl don't, it's to mf hot, fix it,
Well move!
@@darrylmitch4233No how about people DO THEIR JOBS
@@darrylmitch4233thanks for the advice! i personally would've already but unfortunately i legally can't because I'm a teenager. and with the adults, many of them can't move because of their jobs here. your naïve way of thinking is cute though!! :)
@@darrylmitch4233 🖕🏾Mf Find yo ass Sumn to do besides speaking when yo mf ass ain't getting spoken to bullshit mf.... Where yo kids at mf .. go play wit'em mf ..
Texas isn’t even prepared for a major storm
You people are 20 miles from the coast, how do you not have a fortified power grid? That's just dumb. Cat 1 shouldn't even knock out power, except in isolated pockets.
Exactly! I smell rats.
We have been duped trust that.
Leadership in Texas is garbage. Privatized power grid allows for rats to do whatever they want with no oversight.
But if Centerpoint upgrades the power grid, how will they fund their private yachts 😔
Money grab is why. They charge us (the people) for EVERYTHING. Even for things they built that breaks
Praying for those still without power, something has to change from this.
How many days do they think we can go living in the 1500s?
NRG and Astrodome should be used as cooling centers / shelters. 😑
If they had power and the roof wasn’t damaged. You’re such a genius.
I have been driving around WU, Bellaire, Montrose and the Med Center since Monday at 12pm and I have not seen one single Center Point service truck at all! WTF are they talking about! I have seen a couple guys in pick ups with lap tops but no heavy work trucks or guys doing the work. I do not believe a word they say.
Same. And I’ve driven to Baytown- Deer Park, Friendswood, Kemah, Seabrook, Pasadena and Laporte. I’ve seen 3 trucks - eating lunch.
Very inaccurate information, my area is highlighted in Green yet I have no power
Same with us
Guys, this is your wakeup call. No One is going to take care of you. You have to take action now to be better prepared for the future. Things are going to get much worse going forward. Do you want to be in the scorching heat waiting for your power to come back on while blaming the power company and government or do you want to be self sufficient? Take your future into your own hands. The time to get prepared for the next one is right now!
Right on! ✊🏼
Words of the wise!
How exactly.
@annechappee8825 it's called being prepared. It's common sense.
All these people should’ve been better prepared. Invest in a generator.
They should have done that since Monday afternoon !
Entergy has been abysmal!!💢They've been going at a snail's 🐌 pace to restore our power, dare I say even worse than centerpoint.
Centerpoint...... Lol, what a joke.
Yeah, it should be called WhatsthePoint Energy
@@djaftermath4313 Ridiculous
😂@@djaftermath4313
The green status is not accurate! My section of the neighborhood looks green in the map, but we still don’t have power! And the Power Alert Service is not working properly! I’ve been trying to register, it said that there was a problem and gave me a phone number to call… well, everyone is calling, and the wait is very long… too long when you are trying to save battery on your phone! So frustrating! And what happens to the other 1.3 million that don’t get connected today?
🔥 MESS
I saw the same thing, 2 friends on green but still no power i am in blue so no hope !
It’s a scam. Vicious circle ⭕️ that has zero outcome. The website, graphs and phone numbers are a sham. They don’t care about people who are suffering and with existing illnesses and conditions- sick. They don’t care if people have heat exhaustion and go into heat strokes. It’s well close to 100 inside the homes. Easily! Feels like an oven. Further- our future rates will be astronomically increased again. This is an enormous opportunity for some people to pad their bank accounts. Shady!!
Ps. I grew up along the coast and never have we not been in prepared for tropical storms and hurricanes. Or just a standard spring season of heavy thunderstorms. This is unfortunately what we all have to deal with from now on. Criminal minded people in charge.
I havent seen a single truck in southwest houston and i have not seen any power lines down either
Texans, your governor is useless. Get rid of him.
They keep saying staging but nothing else cmon
A person might expect more preparedness and less deprivation from a place next door to the site of the Great Storm of 1900.
Yes they might have mobilized to Houston but still haven’t started . The AMC parking lot on beltway 8 and 45S is full of repair trucks. Nobody is working in Pasadena. I understand there’s a lot of damage but Houston is one of the biggest cities in the USA. All the taxes need to go to infrastructure instead of other things I won’t say.
Lesson learned for us: install a power inlet at the house, buy a generator, be prepped instead of scrambling at last minute
Try 100 degrees inside. Why are the trucks parked at NRG? They should be in the streets. Every #senior can't get to the Chilling Centers. Turn it on by sections, don't expect sympathy. 😡
Try working in a nursing home with the sick and no power!! But we are supposed to be high priority.... Sickening
We need to pass laws that don’t allow any large trees near power lines and update our towers to be able to handle 200 mph winds, I’m sure it’s possible
My address shows green, but I’ve no power. Centerpoint sucks. This map is useless
Every truck I’ve seen have been just sitting not working
Imagine what CAT2 or 3 would do to Texas considering the Texas infrastructure can’t handle cat1. Someone needs to take the blame starting with the voters. Maybe it’s better for us to move out of Texas now as the next storm will probably keep us down for months.
North Houston is my location! Pls how soon!
Mine too ! The heat is no joke over here
Northeast side of Houston Here!! WE are Pissed and sick and tired of this 💩 every time... Everytime... Repeatedly.... Center point is full of 💩,
@@OGCuties girl yes I’m off of Parker and aldine westfield , everything is off , lines for gas are long , kids are hungry and hot ! Prayers to you guys , hopefully we get power soon . 🙏🏻
Jus move, you won't to worry bout stuff like this❗🤣
@@darrylmitch4233 wow I’ve never thought of that ! 😱 thanks !
SO LUCKY TO HAVE POWER SINCE ALL THIS HAPPENED 🙏🏻😊 IM IN ONE OF THOSE MORE AFFECTED AREAS BUT FOR SOME REASON WE NEVER LOST POWER 🫤🤔
Gloat somewhere else
Yeah, nobody asked
💪 💪
Just thank God that it wasn't a higher category hurricane..
Yeah we also need help on in pasadena
11-1pm, the hotest time is 4pm......are they realy want to help or just want sale more gasoline? We have no gasoline, the nearest gas station has no gasoline, the nearest community center 3miles away....
It's insane they are still staged and sitting there on the third day!!
Not accurate!!! We r still without power in Richmond and Fulshear (west subs)
All this tech, gizmos, gadgetry and ways to find out who has power and who doesn't when what we actually need is for center pointless to PERMANENTLY hire more lineman repair crews and buy more service vehicles so they DON'T HAVE TO CALL UPON 12K out of town workers. There is no excuse for not hiring more people considering the power outages are occurring more and more every year.
Well it is good that Centerpojnt is staging linemen at the time of this video. I mean, it would have been good to do that a couple of days ago but hey… 😢
No gas, where to get food????!!!!!!
I can drone you sum food for 150$ service fee, where are you located ❓
Just throwing out more than $300 of food !!!
I know, let’s have a press conference from the mayor, the governor and Centerpoint. Nothing will change.
That CenterPoint struggles to explain clearly who has power and who doesn't is inexcusable. Even the most basic facts about service - how many crews, where were they pre-positioned, where is the power working and where is it not working, when can people expect to have their power restored in one part of the city or another - evade them.
I'm sure the line crews are competent, hard-working people in a difficult and dangerous job. But their corporate efforts to communicate to the general public are abysmally poor and further harm the company's already-amoebic credibility.
My area is in the green and I have no power! Who do I report these lies to because this is ridiculous.
We also need help in Laporte
We need a federal investigation with charges and arrest this is cruel and unusual punishment on over 1 million people .
Welcome to capitalism
I haven't seen any news that President Biden or VP Harris have acknowledged the wrath of this storm on Texas. Alot of news on how we are helping other countries. Just sayin'.......
Hey- as long as the borders are open and they send our tax money to other countries. I’m so angry at all the government officials across the board,
It's because they know neither of them would win Texas anyway.
Centerpoint owes everyone a generator.
All I see is empty trucks.
Created Chaos
"Center Point Energy" " Stand Down" on restoring power 🔋 to Houston 😢 residents.
85 degrees lol you mean 120
You're only talking about Centerpoint. How about other provider like Sam Houston electric coop. We dont even know their updates.
Meanwhile the Astros just played a fully lit and cooled game at Minute Maid 🙄
I feel like they help the government job people first then major corporations like walmart etc then they help residents , thats messed up we all equal
3 days and 2 nights so far without power and have yet to see a center point truck anywhere and I have gotten out there and they claim they have help from other cities
If your wonder whos paying for all this. YOU are. Im still getting billed for the last tornado we had. My bill didn't change even though my house was without power for almost a week.
This is ridiculous. Why was no one planned ahead of time?. Why do I feel like this was being done on purpose.
With you.
This is a dam shame!!!
Not even in fucking Mexico. My neighborhood looks like a Pueblo, they got Everyone outside at night at 11,12. We should be asleep by that time, I slept at 1:30 yesterday and worked at 6… what about the little babies in this heat.
Many of us have yet to see those extra linemen out assessing the areas. Previous storms for decades- they were on top of it. This is absolutely wrong. How can other large cities / states that deal with power outages and hurricanes 🌀 manage to show up asap and address the power outage issues successfully? (Ex. Fla.)
This is wrong at all angles.
Government feeling pulled to serve corporate districts first,
suck it up at 85 degrees at home!!
Mine said 91 degrees when I left for san antonio a few days I hope when i return fri night its power
File complaint with public utility commission of Texas!
Where they at? I'm in sugar land still no light 77498
God bless all worker at Center Point they still working outside with 100°
Optical illusion
85 degrees !! More like 110 !! He should be in jail. I don’t like him at all.
Did he say Houston was the 4th largest economy in the world??
Our neighborhood yall ain't done squat
Why are the woodlands not included on the map. No one we know have power up here.
Sound like a personal problem
Bc that area is Entergy not CenterPoint and most ppl in woodlands got power this morning
@@EB-mz4nkNo. CenterPoint is our provider but I understand Entergy does handle part of the woodlands also. And no, a bunch of the woodlands area does not have power currently.
Just an odd deal that centerpoint does not show their entire covered area. That was the point of my comment.
Edit: the Centerpoint map does include our area of the woodlands. Have to zoom way in but it does show this section. Looks like entergy handles everything north of woodlands parkway and Centerpoint handles south of the same. Sorry for the confusion.
They aint doing nothing 😅
They are just parked at the race track
I need power it so hot I haven’t had ac for three days
God bless you all!!!!😢
Not a good look for GOP leadership in an election year. I'll be voting Blue.
And THAT is exactly why I keep a small, 2200 watt generator and a cheap 6000 BTU window unit AC in the garage. I have been without power for a week 3 times in my life, and I have learned that you at least need to be able to heat and/or cool one small room. What are the folks that don't have this during an outage in all that oppressive Texas heat gonna do??
Blame abbott! He left Town like cruz did!!!
Wtf that wheelchair asshole going too do…
So leave
I just want to say to those without power to just hang in there. I know my words personally don't help your situation, but power will come back and all things will hopefully get better. These times suck. I agree with everyone in the comments. CP was completely negligent and un-prepared. I get it. We had a Hurricane come through, but they blew about 12 hours being un-prepared. Those 12 hours grow to 24 hours, then 48 hours cus the delay compounds and they have to work double, triple time to catch up.
Let people vent in peace just cause u got power u want everyone to be calm
We need to be on the National Grid!!! But Abby rather let us suffer!!!
Should give us a stimulus check for this incompetency