One of these days my mind will remember I have no power and I'll stop flicking switches in my bathrooms and closets...

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Zobel said:

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The number of whiny titty babies on this thread that can't imagine a hurricane can knock out power for a couple of days is freaking hilarious.

Stomp your feet more.

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Yeah let's just sit idly by while the 4th largest city who has hurricanes yearly is unprepared yet again. Not only that but the power company can't even host a f'ing map that's anywhere close to being accurate. Stupid post, but you knew that before you submitted it.

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Curious as to how better centerpoint can prepare? We have buried lines and are without power. Additionally, you CAN access the map still if you have the link. I'm lost on what good an outage map serves you with outside of knowing sort of where you would be on a priority list.

I thought the same with the cheap POS I bought from Lowe's after the derecho, but I set it to 63 degrees and woke up freezing my ass off. As long as the room isn't huge, you might be surprised.

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tbh tho it does feel like the grid is way more volatile than it was back 10-15 years ago but i suppose that's to be expected.

i remember growing up in houston and having hurricanes and i dont remember losing power for an extended amount of time.

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There were also a fraction of the people living here then than there are now. I feel like the grid didn't expand at the same rate as the people.

In 1983 when Alicia with similar strength hit, I lived off Yorktown near San Felipe. Lost power for several days. Some folks in Tanglewood and Briargrove lost power for as much as a week. Hurricanes and trees did not get along back in those days either. CNP needs to do a much better job of vegetation management, and so do homeowners.

David_Puddy said:

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Zobel said:

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The number of whiny titty babies on this thread that can't imagine a hurricane can knock out power for a couple of days is freaking hilarious.

Stomp your feet more.

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Yeah let's just sit idly by while the 4th largest city who has hurricanes yearly is unprepared yet again. Not only that but the power company can't even host a f'ing map that's anywhere close to being accurate. Stupid post, but you knew that before you submitted it.

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Dude that never posts on tine board comes to tine board to bash tine board.

Sea Speed said:

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David_Puddy said:

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Zobel said:

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The number of whiny titty babies on this thread that can't imagine a hurricane can knock out power for a couple of days is freaking hilarious.

Stomp your feet more.

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Yeah let's just sit idly by while the 4th largest city who has hurricanes yearly is unprepared yet again. Not only that but the power company can't even host a f'ing map that's anywhere close to being accurate. Stupid post, but you knew that before you submitted it.

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Dude that never posts on tine board comes to tine board to bash tine board.

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I'll give the poster credit..he/she is wrong on everything I have ever read the post, but they keep coming back defending their incorrect opinion. Look at the beauties from the COVID days. Poster was almost as bad as SaluteTheVaccine.

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On Sunday driving I-10 E back into town there were a TON of utility trucks heading West from Columbus all the way into Houston. I am guessing they were headed to some staging area outside the city.

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I drove to College Station around 10 last night. Literally every hotel I stopped at off of I-10 was completely full. Same for the 3 I stopped at in Navasota, including one they had about 20 utility trucks at it. I figured once I got to CS there would be plenty of rooms but I was quite wrong. Called about 20 hotels and finally the sh-tty Motel 6 on Texas had a room. This place is such a dump and the longer this carries on the more enraged I become with the incompetent morons who run our city. As mentioned, this was only a cat 1….i can't imagine if it was a cat 3 or 4.

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I checked around 1 yesterday and there were tons of hotels available so I didn't get one at the time. As we decided to leave for CS around 6pm I started looking for rooms and almost everything was showing sold out. We got lucky and got a room at Wingate in south SC but its pretty crappy. There were tons of linemen checking in when we got here around 8.

Serious question, do you live in Houston?

Zobel said:

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It's stressful for everyone, it's not like the storm hit only yall in particular. Crying about it and getting mad from rage bait articles doesn't help.

It's unreasonable to expect everything to be back to normal less than 24 hrs later. Go clean up debris, you'll feel better and it'll be productive.

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This is a discussion board, you goober. Nobody is crying about "rage bait" articles. I simply posted that it shouldn't be a tough ask to have an accurate map from Centerpoint and then you decided to post a bunch of nonsense for whatever reason. Get over yourself

How dare like-minded people experiencing the same issues discuss them on a platform designed for discussing things.

Yeah, I live in Pearland. I lived in Houston for Ike and my place lost power and water for almost two weeks.

People saying "only category 1" are not wrong but at least for Pearland the winds were much worse for Beryl than Ike.

Power will come back soon. 24 hours after a storm is too early to call whether they're doing a good job or not (except for Dora who sucks as a given).

After a hurricane? Serious answer - you should be prepared to not have power for a week.

We got lucky this time around and never lost power but that's not been the case in the past.

It really is an awful experience and I feel for anyone who's down especially with the heat we're getting the next couple days..

However, I will say I think the hand wringing over the outage tracker and 'communication' from CP is a bit much. Critiquing the preparedness is acceptable but I've never got the big stink about the tracker map.

I can imagine the logistics of managing thousands of linemen from all over to assist in restoring millions of customers is extremely challenging.

I also imagine in mass outage events like this the tracker map is incredibly hard to keep updated and becomes absolutely pointless. IDGAF about a map. Just get power back on ASAP.

Sorry for being an ass. It's hot.

Florida restores power to millions after Category 4 and 5 Hurricanes within 24 hours.

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More than 2.1 million customers lost power during Ian similar to the amount after other major storms but Eric Silagy, chief executive of Florida Power & Light, noted that all customers in places where the grid doesn't need to be rebuilt got back online within eight days. Roughly two-thirds of customers were online within 24 hours.

Some outside experts agreed with the praise. "Fewer people lost power than I would have expected, given the physical size and ferocity of the storm," said Michael Webber, an energy scholar at the University of Texas at Austin.

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The state's utility companies have invested billions to strengthen the electrical grid in recent years, hoping to avoid a prolonged mass blackout after a catastrophic tropical cyclone. When Hurricane Ian hit southwest Florida in late September, a 44,000-strong army of electrical workers from all over the country stood on standby for repairs.

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Zobel said:

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After a hurricane? Serious answer - you should be prepared to not have power for a week.

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I did not ask how long I should be prepared for. I asked when I should be allowed to be peeved about it since you are apparently the one that is deciding for everyone.

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Serious question, do you live in Houston?

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Based on his posts, I'd guess we found the Centerpoint IT manager's Texags handle.