I'm hesitant to even say this out loud, but if we get another hurricane this year, it's going to be a Rita situation all over again, only this time the woodlands, conroe, etc. will try to evacuate too. Gonna be a disaster of epic proportions.

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The problem is, and why nothing will change with CenterPoint, is that people are like me.

I was pissed off and *****ing - but then my power came back on - I got back to life and haven't thought about CenterPoint since except reading this thread.

There won't be any follow-up because people just move on.

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I tried. Things were so bad in my neighborhood last year, I spoke in front of The Woodlands Township board twice and there was an article in The Chronicle. There have been similar articles on other neighborhoods (a lot of them in Spring) with the same problem.

In addition to calling out the issues with our power supply, I called out the complete lack of communication, and another person quoted in the article raised the red flag about what was going to happen in a hurricane (since our outages were occurring in sunny weather).

I filed a complaint with the TPUC, and that was just sent right back to Centerpoint to address. I got a Landry list of excuses, and was even told that some of the multi-hour outages we had didn't even occur.

Their tracker and "outage updates" system hasn't been working since last June.

I don't think Centerpoint even has an accurate number of how many people are without power and where all of those outages are.

Bottom line is, they don't like the negative press, but they know there are no repercussions to continuing their MO. No fines, they ignore unhappy customers, and as others have said, once most people have power, we go about our daily lives and don't complain until another outage occurs.

They have zero real accountabliity, and for that reason, nothing will change.

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Add to it that all the costs they incur to repair just get passed on to the customer. There's no accountability from even a profit margin standpoint. Which is why you see so many pictures of parking lots full of out of town workers (getting paid significant overtime I'm sure) waiting for hours on instructions for where to go. There's no need to be efficient. There's not even a need to provide updates.

And I'm in no way railing on the workers here. They deserve significant praise and compensation for being away from their homes to repair our city. Just wish Centerpoint could actually have an effective and efficient plan for how to utilize them.

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The reason none of it matters is that Centerpoint won't lose a single customer, no matter how terrible they are at their one job.

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Big update to the centerpoint map this morning

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Yeah! We went from "Scheduled" to "Assessment Complete". If my math is correct, and using the time delta between those two attributes, we should be "Partially Energized" in approximately 5.148 fartrons of time.

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With this, they will not point fingers at the failure of their fellow democrats in a blue city.

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knives are coming out slowly for Whitmire

Centerpoint is 100% the bad guy in this story

Lina is bless her heart trying her best you can't blame her for trying and failing that would be mean

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They were coming out for him before this because he's actually shining light on Sly's failures and stating how bad of shape the city is in. They don't like that.

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Anyone who knows my love for Houston knows how radical this idea is: I’m just not sure if I want to live here anymore.

— Alison Cook (@alisoncook) July 11, 2024

Three days without power

I'm sorry this is single ply soft

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Houston is mostly a ****hole on its best days. I don't blame anyone for wanting to get out after three days without power.

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I certainly won't mind losing a bunch of people who don't know how to take care of themselves to Dallas or San Antonio.

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I'm hesitant to even say this out loud, but if we get another hurricane this year, it's going to be a Rita situation all over again, only this time the woodlands, conroe, etc. will try to evacuate too. Gonna be a disaster of epic proportions.

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You probably right.

The second another hurricane enters the gulf, every hotel within 500 miles might get booked up.

People gonna have PTSD from sleeping with no A/C.

All the people that flocked to Houston during covid probably cussing a blue streak right now.

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Been there, done that. Will never leave again.

But will have all cars full of gas and leave as soon as its safe, and after the house is secure and all food thrown away from freezers.

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That's really the key. Stay long enough to secure the property and make sure everything is safe, then leave. Most people could get around town by Tuesday morning. Have a monitoring system for power.

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Been there, done that. Will never leave again.

But will have all cars full of gas and leave as soon as its safe, and after the house is secure and all food thrown away from freezers.

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That's really the key. Stay long enough to secure the property and make sure everything is safe, then leave. Most people could get around town by Tuesday morning. Have a monitoring system for power.

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If it's a cat 3 or higher headed right for us, I'm bolting far before it gets here. Way too many tall trees around the house to risk it.

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Been there, done that. Will never leave again.

But will have all cars full of gas and leave as soon as its safe, and after the house is secure and all food thrown away from freezers.

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That's really the key. Stay long enough to secure the property and make sure everything is safe, then leave. Most people could get around town by Tuesday morning. Have a monitoring system for power.

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If it's a cat 3 or higher headed right for us, I'm bolting far before it gets here. Way too many tall trees around the house to risk it.

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Yeah, now that I know what cat 1 looks like passing right over my house, I have a rational fear of what much more will do. My traveling circus will be out of here. Not because of power outage, but because I wouldn't want to be inside as the roof starts coming off.

then a word of advice. leave at the absolute last minute. The roads will be clear except for the cars on the shoulder that all ran out of gas in the epic ****show traffic jam the days before.

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then a word of advice. leave at the absolute last minute. The roads will be clear except for the cars on the shoulder that all ran out of gas in the epic ****show traffic jam the days before.

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spoken like a veteran of Hurricane Rita

I know we have customers here fixing things, but I have to say I haven't seen hardly anyone fixing things.

Going to be 2 weeks for some, horrible and dangerous.

Yes Sir!

13 hours to drive 90 miles to my parents house at Lake Livingston. I remember as I got to downtown that the Astros game started (playing the Cubs in Chicago in a day game). I thought this will be a nice way to pass the time. Well the game ended before I got to the north loop.

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Well CenterPoint came to the house, walked into my neighbors backyard, then were gone.

Let myself get my hopes up for a few minutes….

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And we're back on!

Pretty sure they just went house to house making sure lines weren't down then flipped a switch….

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Been there, done that. Will never leave again.

But will have all cars full of gas and leave as soon as its safe, and after the house is secure and all food thrown away from freezers.

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That's really the key. Stay long enough to secure the property and make sure everything is safe, then leave. Most people could get around town by Tuesday morning. Have a monitoring system for power.

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If it's a cat 3 or higher headed right for us, I'm bolting far before it gets here. Way too many tall trees around the house to risk it.

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I certainly won't mind losing a bunch of people who don't know how to take care of themselves to Dallas or San Antonio.

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Anyway, as soon as I retire you can have my part of your mosquito-infested, hurricane-swept, shoddy-electric-grid swamp back. At the going market rates, of course.

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I'm hesitant to even say this out loud, but if we get another hurricane this year, it's going to be a Rita situation all over again, only this time the woodlands, conroe, etc. will try to evacuate too. Gonna be a disaster of epic proportions.

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I am gonna ride it out with Lieutenant Dan

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Anyone who knows my love for Houston knows how radical this idea is: I’m just not sure if I want to live here anymore.

— Alison Cook (@alisoncook) July 11, 2024

Three days without power

I'm sorry this is single ply soft

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On its own it would be soft. But since we've had at least 3 separate weather related multi-day power outages since 2021, its enough to make people question what the hell are we even doing here. I've lived in the Houston area for nearly 40 years and prior to the freeze the only major multi-day power outage event I can recall is Hurricane Ike. Losing power from a direct hit from a hurricane makes sense so this event in a bubble is frustrating but thats just life on the gulf. But having 3 events less than 4 years just blows balls