Woman found dead without power 

Chill out dude. I was without power for a month after Wilma in the middle of the summer. They can't move that fast ti fix these things. They are working really hard every single day to do so. Plus they got other companies from our if state helping too. Ya'll are so inconsiderate. They can't work magic. It's the way the electrical system is set up.

Nobody thinks that they are complaining?? They literally have a heat advisory. The higher ups of texas have no accountability.

You're saying you're the only ones overpaying for electricity? Trying getting a generator and know how to safely operate it.

@chrisgast please know what you're talking about if you're going to rebut me. Thats not even what i said. Not everyone can have generators where they live due to regulations. We pay for electricity and shouldn't have to wait excessively in dangerous temperatures for the people who rob us monthly to do what they promised to do.

Where is Ted Cruz he the senator of Texas my opinion

Same thing happened two winters ago, most of texas was without power and a lot of people died. Not safe anytime of year in texas.

​@@user-vj9kp8sn4yAbbott supposedly left the country. 😮

It's CRIMINAL! The neighbors did not help? The neighbors did not bring her ice or share?

It's a hurricane, you have to expect to be without power for a week. A de

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especially if they pay a HOA, where are they, what do they do

@@greenteadoll2384 this is horrible

Sad😢

Oh, I don't know. Call for help? Go to a church or a senior center where they do have power and air conditioning? Go to a mall? If she doesn't have transportation get help from a neighbor who does? There are lots of things that an adult can do to keep themselves alive. If you don't have a working phone knock on the neighbor's door or the office door. Me, I'm a senior and I have portable solar panels and backup batteries I keep charged so if the power goes out I can at least call for help.

@@mattbosley3531 She was immobile and maybe her family are deceased . Back up is smart though .

I found out months after, that a women 6 houses down died at 92, alone hiding under her bed. She was a Jewish Holocaust survivor.. I cried so much, and wish I had known. I can't help but think of her when I drive past that house. 😢 God bless the elderly in this world.

They had linemen from out of state come in to help, but apparently some weren’t able to do anything because they came from Union states and their union reps were asking for a pay rate that was too high and couldn’t come to an agreement with centerpoint. Houston suburbs are growing fast. Energy infrastructure is some of the slowest to develop in the US because it’s the industry that has the heaviest burden of necessary permits/registrations/regulations/restrictions through every step. If it wasn’t for the bureaucratic process required for our energy development, we would have much lower energy prices and an infrastructure that would be much more reliable.

Check and see how much of the money you pay goes to the Republican leadership of your state.

Especially today with the high prices.

Well people need to learn to live within their means, I haven't had a car payment in 14 years, if I can do it you can too. Insurance, ah I let that one slide... And well people and their legal dope addictions are just that, addicts, gotta make up your mind if you want electricity or pay the dope dealer...

@PatrickBaptist An irresponsible person without car insurance, drivers license ran a light, totalled my car, and almost took me out a few years ago. Guess who got to pay for all that? MY insurance company and myself. You know nothing about me and your comments regarding drugs is wasted on me. It is very easy to make broad, sweeping statements about what other people should be doing. Such comments show a lack of critical thinking skills.

@@Lily-wp8ol I love you too buddy try not to get too upset. But legal or illegal dope is dope, people need to grow up and learn they don't need that garbage, the junk doesn't make you well it just puts you into paying dope makers to be kept in debt, so Im saying I just look at ALL drugs alike, none glorified. Sad really. So you can claim whatever you want, I don't think people that partake of the medical religion are wise, so if you approved of me it would make me feel like an outright f00l, so thank you ma'am. Any further replies will just be ignored as I muted this thread, your a dope head no matter how you justify it and there is nothing you will say to change my line of thinking and to think I need your approval is just delusion and that's another fault of dope heads is being delusional, thanks for proving my notions correct.

That's what you get when you try to reason with a right winger. ​@@Lily-wp8ol

@@7Jewelz90 Elon musk is going to space with cameras from liftoff to space. What kind of remote power does he have?????? No excuses in cp it’s 2024 not 1897

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Chill bruv

@@Rikkisio Nope

Texas legislators passed a law mandating power companies to trim trees per needed for maintenance. Centerpointless scored second-to-last compared to its competitors, regarding how much it paid for tree maintenance. The same politicians who are feigning disgust are paid to not provide oversight. Centerpointless will be held to task.

​@@DiabolikalFolliklesyup, this ^

@@ssslimey …aaaand, its chief officer stated he’s going to “look to the future”, installing cement polls, new transformers, etc. Florida made those upgrades 25+ years ago. Centerpointless and corrupt politicians, the same feigning disgust, have blood on their hands. It’s unacceptable.

You're an idiot and have no clue how the grid works

If you got power, could a few of us come over and stay with you -- until we get power? It's so hot outside, and it's gonna take forever to get power back.

Abbott passed a law making it so we cannot sue them.

​@@corimyers4985so sue Abbott.

We already sued in the winter storm and the state courts protected Centerpoint and the public utilities saying that they have governmental immunity.

​@@hals1finedayImmunity for a for-profit company, that's sick!

No electricity , no fans 😮

They must have flipped the switch back on at 6:30pm yesterday for you too. It's was as if all they did was flip a switch. When my power was turned off last Monday at 6:34 am the weather wasn't even bad here yet.

@Summertyme75 The Swith 😩🤣 but you're absolutely correct. That's around the time

Poor senior lady😢

@@Fat12219 and stupidity shows up🤣

Greg Wheels was in South Korea and Ted Cancun Cruz fled to California

Somewhere where's there power.

​@Blanack____ and air conditioners

@@mybackyardfarm..4383 He's an anti-globalist who went to Asian to talk about how Texas and... various Asian countries can do business together... but he's anti-globalist. Go figure.

@@mybackyardfarm..4383 Yeah, Gov. Wheelie wasn't even here. On vacation -- just like Sen. Cruz is always

You must be rich to be able to afford a house and still be able to pay rent somewhere else. I only wish that I had money like that, because we suffering still without power.

Wait ... do you mean Wheelie?

Precisely

The last I checked, Gov Abbott is on vacay and Texas is still run by Republicans who don't want to invest in the power grid. It's ludicrous to think that any particular city in the state , whether its run by either party, can do anything about unreliable power supplies arising from GOP incompetence.

YES

definitely

People with mobility issues can’t get into and out of the tub.

@@annec781 gotta wonder if/how they bathe.

@@Pinky-lg3lz walk-in shower, or sponge bath.

You are wrong. I work at a utility. This is easily preventable and fixable. Texas is not a member of southwestern power pool which provides pooled resouces to member utilities and and they are not regulated by Ferc or nerc. Texas is a bunch of independent utilities who serve share holders who dont live in texas. The utilities here are publically owned by a board of LOCAL members who are regulated to provide a basic level of service. We have never lost power for more than 10 mins and we knew a week ahead of time. You are clueless.

​@@user-vc3dz9ct1wI think you are wrong. Since Covid, spare parts have been low and on demand. When Houston needed so much repair, they probably did not have everything in stock. Therefore, it would take a little longer to transport them from a location that had the parts to Houston. This could be the reason for the slow restoration.

Remember Puerto Rico is always in the directions of hurricanes in the caribe they are not immune, just their turn again just like Jamaica, Cuba Haiti, d.r. on znd on znd on!😮

A week whole complex

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A week for me. And still no electricity.

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Oh my god. I’m so sorry. Do you have water. Food?

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The houses construction were different and they didn’t have all these crazy laws we have today.

​@@walar2409laws don't dictate heat,bonzo

@cymbolichuman433 well, they didnt live long lives

they control us

There are no extra electrical poles... Limited gas because people are using their cars AC to survive. No food in refrigerator and in some cases no way to cook the food unless you have a propane tank or Barbecue pit. They are getting Hotel vouchers but no transport to the hotel....

@@nelvinlewis23 Nobody mentioned electrical poles, just that there is supposed to be a way of registering yourself as medically vulnerable so that the utilities could prioritize their repair work however no one knows how to register themselves... As to vouchers for hotels and other measures, maybe there are organizations that do that, perhaps even the city but again that wasn't what my post was about as I was only saying how the utilities always say that you could register yourself as medically vulnerable and they would prioritize restoring the power to as many people in need as possible but of course do people even know how to do so. They say this on the news everytime there's a major outage but they never say how to register.

that kind of registry sounds like a good idea, except I personally would not want my name on a list of vulnerable people because the 'wrong' people might make use of it in negative ways.

​@@johnwang9914who helps those that cant adocate for themselves?

I agree. I regret moving here

Well we have the best tacos znd cold beer than iowa@

Don’t talk about Texas.

​@@iampatricemeeks9512 😢

​@@Macarena22279texas has the best guns

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u centerpointless