Most older stores don't. It's a numbers game.CowtownAg06 said:I assumed all major grocery stores had generators.wessimo said:I guess they got rid of their generator too soon.Ryan the Temp said:
Power was out at Kroger on Shepherd long enough for them to remove all refrigerated and frozen foods.
Serotonin said:
Oncor outage map: https://stormcenter.oncor.com/
Entergy outage map: https://www.etrviewoutage.com/map?state=TX
Centerpoint outage map: lol
GiggityAg01 said:
Anyone else have a power meter showing usage during the outage last week? I lost power like everyone on Thursday. Power was restored Wednesday night. My daily usage with CP and my REP (Champions) shows usage on Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday (about $40 worth). My other meter, fed off the same pole, shows no usage from Thursday night - Wednesday night. I matched the meter number shown on my power bill to the meter number printed on the meter and verified each day that the meter wasn't powered at all - zero display at all. I did not have a leg of power up, we were totally dark.
I haven't received my newest invoice so I don't know if this is something that will correct once the meter is actually "read" digitally. The weirder part is my daily usage data on the CP website isn't zero but is about 50% lower for the off days. Once we got power back it matches the Champions' data perfectly.
How do you know that the guy the made the map isn't some crazy glue sniffer? "Building model airplanes", he says. Well, we're not buying it. The outage map maker sneaks into your house once, that's all it takes. The next thing you know, there's money missing off the dresser, and your daughter's knocked up. I seen it a hundred times.AgLA06 said:
I guess a map could make you feel all warm and fuzzy. Then again based on your posting, I doubt it.
They do list exactly how many are currently impacted and how many have been restored. It appears about 5% of those that lost power yesterday afternoon are still without. And considering how many trees are down or still through houses and how many lines were still impacted from the first storm, that's not exactly surprising.
P.H. Dexippus said:
I guess whenever you're done giving a handy to the strawman y'all have erected, the rest of us have realistic customer service criticisms of Center Point that don't involve Houston customers forking over the gross domestic product of New Mexico to "fix".
My sister lives in Crosby and her power went out yesterday. She is out of town and got a text from CP a little after 5 pm telling her that they were aware her power was out and they expected to have it restored by 1:30pm. I must have missed them purchasing Delorean service trucks.Agasaurus Tex said:
Put me down as a huge positive for CenterPoint. They sent me daily updates on the status of repairs, even though;
- I am in Texas City and was not affected by the storm causing all the outages
- I am a Texas-New Mexico customer and not CenterPoint
Yeah, those extra IT guys out there working on power lines will get everything back online much faster. This isn't an either/or decision. They are not taking line crews off the job to work on the outage map.Ag_07 said:
WTF does a outage map matter?
Either your power is on or off and if it's off then it's off until they get back on.
And honestly I want them putting everything into getting power back on rather than letting me know where it's out.
I can assure those IT guys have roles during these storms. Whether it be setting up all of the technology at all of the staging sites around or working even further behind the scenes.txags92 said:Yeah, those extra IT guys out there working on power lines will get everything back online much faster. This isn't an either/or decision. They are not taking line crews off the job to work on the outage map.Ag_07 said:
WTF does a outage map matter?
Either your power is on or off and if it's off then it's off until they get back on.
And honestly I want them putting everything into getting power back on rather than letting me know where it's out.
Yep, I have a friend in Supply Chain at CenterPoint. It's in their contract that they're all hands on deck in events like this. So she was out at the temporary man camps helping with distributing food, mapping out lineman schedules, etc.redag06 said:I can assure those IT guys have roles during these storms. Whether it be setting up all of the technology at all of the staging sites around or working even further behind the scenes.txags92 said:Yeah, those extra IT guys out there working on power lines will get everything back online much faster. This isn't an either/or decision. They are not taking line crews off the job to work on the outage map.Ag_07 said:
WTF does a outage map matter?
Either your power is on or off and if it's off then it's off until they get back on.
And honestly I want them putting everything into getting power back on rather than letting me know where it's out.
It takes a LOT to support all of the crews working the lines.
Furlock Bones said:
Pedernales Electric Coop kicks the ever living **** out of centerpoint.
you think CNP has no oversight they can't even increase rates without approval from the PUCFurlock Bones said:
Pedernales Electric Coop kicks the ever living **** out of centerpoint. Centerpoint is a government backed monopoly without any of that pesky oversight.
Quote:
"So, as you know, we had a peak of over 900,000 customers that were out. We were seeing, you know, several hundreds of thousands of customers or hits to the page in a single hour. For instance, in one hour, we were seeing over 700,000 hits at one point in time," Alyssia Oshodi, CenterPoint's Director of Communications told KPRC 2 Investigates reporter Joel Eisenbaum. "And so the traffic was just too much. And so, again, we want to be able to test and bring up a replacement that functions properly," Oshodi said.
Breggy Popup said:AgLiving06 said:
CenterPoint on what happened to their map:
https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2024/05/28/power-outages-hit-85000-as-severe-storms-move-into-houston-area/Quote:
"So, as you know, we had a peak of over 900,000 customers that were out. We were seeing, you know, several hundreds of thousands of customers or hits to the page in a single hour. For instance, in one hour, we were seeing over 700,000 hits at one point in time," Alyssia Oshodi, CenterPoint's Director of Communications told KPRC 2 Investigates reporter Joel Eisenbaum. "And so the traffic was just too much. And so, again, we want to be able to test and bring up a replacement that functions properly," Oshodi said.
Really instills confidence...
700k hits an hour (195 per second) on a GIS system will bring it to its knees. That is a lot of bandwidth and compute cycles. It is basically a moderate DDoS attack.
