Since Alicia 1983 in Houston, many cities have been built around the world and Houston is not coordinated yet, what's wrong? who is to blame? no blames ...nobody's accountable ....will continue. I quit working in the refineries in the Houston area because those in charge are never at fault, some people will get chewed and fire but those on top will stay and same stories on the following disasters, which will hit here again and again sooner or later. A lot of new people will be fired.
I remember Hurricane Alicia. I was 4. It was raining hard and lots of thunder and lightning. Lightning hit a tree in our front yard, the sky turned pink, it was super loud and that tree got split right down the middle. I remember being terrified and clinging to my mother. I don't remember a lot from when I was 4 but I do remember that.
Yes, Energy capital of the world for renewable and oil because they are based here….but did anyone say best infrastructure of the world? NO! What we need is competition not a monopoly.
@@unsilent369compared to other grid maintainers, they’ve been spending a weirdly low amount of money clearing trees around power lines Profit over peep
Blessing in disguise when you think about it .this was just a hurricane cat 1. This is a wake up call to take this matter seriously. Imagine a cat 3 or 4 ??? Every one has to evacuate. Houston isn’t built for this
Houston as designed and engineered is not bright. Middle of gulf coastal swamp (lowland). 50 miles inland... Imagine 180 years ago: this looks like a good place to settle and start start business. Swamp, skeeters, gators not much breeze breeze, no clear drinking water.....
The highest elevation is less than 50', intense winds bring whats called storm surge bud, high tides and low elevation equals what? You guessed it,flooding! @winstonsmith2391
@@patgraeme775 That has nothing to do with the conversation, the original comment (which was deleted) was not talking about flooding but more climate cult doomsday prophecy of "every coastal city" being completely submerged under water unless we repent of our carbon sins and swear allegiance to the great prophet Al Gore.
This wouldn't have happened if CenterPoint had been taking care of and replacing this outdated equipment. You saw the rusted out transformer, unacceptable and the reason the power is out. How old are these poles, snapping days after a Cat 1 storm. No densely populated area shouldn't have to deal with this...
True, this transformer's internal components could still be in good working order. And since made of copper, are not rusting. But it's mounted and supported to the pole by the outside rusted and compromised metal housing. If at the very least, the outer housing needs attention or replacement just to keep it secured to the pole. I don't see many around town that look this rusted. Probably not uncommon for them to eventually rust for sure. But this one(externally) has seen better days and looks long overdue for "some sort of attention and or maintenance." Not surprising considering : our aging grid, it's aging components, and this "it's not a problem until complete failure occurs" approach by those responsible for taking care of these things.
If a tiny little storm did all this, I think it Texas needs to talk about climate resiliency, and spending some money on infrastructure to keep up with the times.
What's deep about all these videos about Beryl is this hurrican is a CATEGORY 1!! All this damage?? Imagine if we get another Harvey?? In May, we went through the Derecho and the damage wasn't even half of this! Wow
@@ahokay3119 Plus the main damage with harvey was that it just kind of parked over us for almost a whole week while dumping endless rain. My house had all kind of new leaks popping up we didn't even know about from just how saturated with water it was getting.
1:50 Pause that standing water is the problem. The ground remains saturated with water making the soil very loose. Therefore not supporting structure man made or natural.
Theres 2 many trees around to many power lines in houston its only common sense hello what doesnt center point understand???? Its not rocket science get red of those trees around power lines...i just dont get it.....cut all trees around power lines its not rocket science hello.......
@@Novastar.SaberCombatreally cutting down trees is going to cost so much money but having the entire power grid go out causing widespread blackouts well that's that's not going to cost us that much money
@@Flokiabob311 Here in Florida our Electric companies start cutting & trimming the trees near Power lines before the Hurricane Season starts. Why don't they do this in Texas?
Here's an idea, see all the broken wood power poles? The EPA forbade preservatives for wood, so now most of the telephone poles won't stand up to a storm. Cape Coral is replacing all their wood poles with concrete or steel poles as fast as they can. So, blame the EPA, a Federal agency.
Last month when we had the straight line winds. We had 4 poles down on the street in front of my house. With a couple snapped in half. This is no big surprise. I was without power for 4 days. I got lucky this time. My power came back on Tuesday the day after the storm.
Center Point thieves from its Customers to line their pockets. Pine pole fail.. Carcinigous creosote come off of them. Use Concrete Power poles like the rest of the Word in hurricane prone areas,
Yes it's bad however there are worse. Now Houston is a huge city and even with the extra help there's only so much these guys can do. Also, I noticed several ppl w/o power Don't have generators and as many hurricanes/storms Houston has gotten they should have gotten one by now.
It's hard to set poles in a saturated ground . Not sure the public really understands how it works. Sure, you can drill, but if the truck is sinking, it's tough . That's a 14 day project at best
So a rusty, should have been replaced years ago, transformer and poles breaking is the worst damage he's seen from this storm... So why are people still out of power?
……and all of us in Houston will end up paying crazy amounts of surcharges and fees because of the amount of man power center point needs to use to fix it all. The cost of this all falls on us - when we are the ones without power.
This is what occurs when Houston looting and power use pine poles instead of steel galvanized polies! The lady said afraid of a fire? The power has been shut down thru the power lines! Another blatant issue why not bury electrical service lines in ground going to subdivisions?
Why don't they put bracelets metal ones to hold the poles up and when they replaces take them off but it would help out alot like when a leg is broken they put knee brace or something put use it to hold them stronger metal supporters all poles make a idea 💡 🤔.... when u put new ones......
Abbott is a clueless joke all he does is pass the blame. Abbott and his minions need to put their Big Boy pants on and do their job! Enough with the excuses.
@@erikkarlonas180 it’s the government’s responsibility to look out for its citizens not corporate greed; by allowing no oversight of necessary regulatory standards ( that the other states in U.S.have )have been weakened by this Texas governor. All he does is pass the blame until hurricane or freeze. Abbott don’t even care the be hear while 13 of our Texas neighbors die as a result of it
@@erikkarlonas180 it’s the government’s responsibility to look out for its citizens not corporate greed; by allowing no oversight of necessary regulatory standards ( that the other states in U.S.have )have been weakened by this Texas governor. All he does is pass the blame until hurricane or freeze. Abbott don’t even care the be hear while 13 of our Texas neighbors die as a result of it
Of course not. But foresight, preparation, preventative maintenance, and intelligence all factor into the equation. At least, they should. BUT THEY DIDN'T. 😂🤣😂 Oh well. It do be what it do be.
@@Novastar.SaberCombat do you know how many power lines/transformers, power stations, there are in Houston area, and the amount of time it would take to remove and place these things, its hurricane season from july to november, every year, where do you think centerpoint is going to find the man power, and time to do every single one, and with able body MEN on the decline, it's a wonder they are able to do it now
The grid is dated. Just like the customers upgrade their electrical panel so should the utility lines upgrade too 🤦♂️ look at that rusty a** transformer
@@rickharnish6757Trump comment was sarcastic. I saw how he handled Puerto Rico throwing paper towels at residents. Wait till your house his leveled by disaster and take those paper towels and shove them in your mouth genius
Looks like poor leadership in Houston to me. I haven’t seen telephones so decrepit in my life. and you guys rely on these to charge your cars, how’s that gonna work out for you?
