Because youndont understand the entire operation. You see a small part of it. You don't know what the resources are or where they're being utilized. Just because an assessment is being done now does not mean there are idle resources that are waiting to be dispatched.

The assessment will be prioritized and added to future work orders.

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AgLiving06 said:

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CenterPoint saying they are under 1 million without power.

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And expect to be less than 500k after this week. Which would put them way ahead of Ike response despite what people think.

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Ike was WAYYY worse than this. With that said, doesn't excuse CP now just like it does not excuse them during Ike

I hope everyone gets relief soon

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It actually wasn't. Similar number of people without power. This storm is technically worse. Ike went up 45 and the dirty side was the east side of Houston. This storm stayed stronger, longer and the majority of Houston was on the dirty side. Meteorologist are talking about it if you actually want to know.

Again, people are complaining about their feelings and made up reality.

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AgLiving06 said:

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AgLA06 said:

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AgLiving06 said:

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CenterPoint saying they are under 1 million without power.

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And expect to be less than 500k after this week. Which would put them way ahead of Ike response despite what people think.

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Ike happened nearly 20 years ago. They've had 20 years to harden and modernize their grid.

Being happy you beat Ike's restoration time is table stakes.

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This is where all I can tell you is you don't know what you're talking about.

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And you're still wrong.

Two things can be true at the same time.

Maybe Ike was worse. CenterPoint could also do a better job getting people back up and running. Both things can be true. I think everyone is justified in being frustrated. This sucks.

I will say… I don't remember this much hostility towards each other in previous hurricanes. I'm not talking about here specifically- but everywhere. Very few people offering to help and a lot of bickering. I don't remember it always being like this. That's what has me the most discouraged through all this.

AgLA06 said:

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BillYeoman said:

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AgLA06 said:

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AgLiving06 said:

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CenterPoint saying they are under 1 million without power.

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And expect to be less than 500k after this week. Which would put them way ahead of Ike response despite what people think.

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Ike was WAYYY worse than this. With that said, doesn't excuse CP now just like it does not excuse them during Ike

I hope everyone gets relief soon

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It actually wasn't. Similar number of people without power. This storm is technically worse. Ike went up 45 and the dirty side was the east side of Houston. This storm stayed stronger, longer and the majority of Houston was on the dirty side. Meteorologist are talking about it if you actually want to know.

Again, people are complaining about their feelings and made up reality.

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Billions of dollars of damage….severe roof damage…..home wipe off the map….even Hooters I. Galveston ended up in the Gulf.

Are you dumb or just trying to argue. I would say both.

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Two things can be true at the same time.

Maybe Ike was worse. CenterPoint could also do a better job getting people back up and running. Both things can be true. I think everyone is justified in being frustrated. This sucks.

I will say… I don't remember this much hostility towards each other in previous hurricanes. I'm not talking about here specifically- but everywhere. Very few people offering to help and a lot of bickering. I don't remember it always being like this. That's what has me the most discouraged through all this.

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social media brings us altogether, for better or worse…

True. I remember being so encouraged during Ike and even Harvey with how people were coming together to help each other out. I really haven't seen that at all this year.

Maybe I'm way off base, but it just seems different this time around.

My hood really came together thru the derecho. And were all checking on each other during storm and after. I have a house full of people staying with me as do many of my neighbors now that we have power back. Our hood looks like a college station roomie row right now. I think people need to get off social media and actually see people lending a hand.

People are sick of this crap. Taxed up the ass and all public services suck. 4th largest city in the U.S. and the energy capital of the world will have will be without power to over 100,000 people for 2 weeks so far this year.

People are tired.

I love the energy capital of the world shame line like that's supposed to move the needle

You want the engineers to get involved? Say when.

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I love the energy capital of the world shame line like that's supposed to move the needle

You want the engineers to get involved? Say when.

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I want the engineers that design the power systems for the offshore rigs to get involved.

texasaggie2015 said:

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Two things can be true at the same time.

Maybe Ike was worse. CenterPoint could also do a better job getting people back up and running. Both things can be true. I think everyone is justified in being frustrated. This sucks.

I will say… I don't remember this much hostility towards each other in previous hurricanes. I'm not talking about here specifically- but everywhere. Very few people offering to help and a lot of bickering. I don't remember it always being like this. That's what has me the most discouraged through all this.

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The hostility has little to do with the hurricane, and more a long standing disagreement over just how bad CenterPoint is. Some defend them at all costs, while also paying 10s of thousands of dollars for backup options when CenterPoint fails them. Others seems to think that there's just nothing CenterPoint can do and this is the best we can expect.

In this case, the comparison to Ike is bad. Ike was nearly 20 years ago. Even CenterPoint bragged about their upgrades to make things quicker and better. They spent $100s of millions of dollars to "upgrade the system." They bragged about removing trees away from the lines to stop them from falling on the lines. Yet here we are with the exact same problems. So we should absolutely expect that any recovery this time should be significantly improved over Ike. That's the promise CenterPoint made to us.

And just to set the standard for Ike. They claimed roughly the same number of outages as now and had 75% restored within 10 days. So rough math says the clock stops now when they hit ~540k still without power. The last estimations from CenterPoint puts us near that number on Sunday or 6-7 days after the storm.

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cone said:

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I love the energy capital of the world shame line like that's supposed to move the needle

You want the engineers to get involved? Say when.

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I want the engineers that design the power systems for the offshore rigs to get involved.

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prepare your anus for some significant value engineering

AgLiving06 said:

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texasaggie2015 said:

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Two things can be true at the same time.

Maybe Ike was worse. CenterPoint could also do a better job getting people back up and running. Both things can be true. I think everyone is justified in being frustrated. This sucks.

I will say… I don't remember this much hostility towards each other in previous hurricanes. I'm not talking about here specifically- but everywhere. Very few people offering to help and a lot of bickering. I don't remember it always being like this. That's what has me the most discouraged through all this.

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The hostility has little to do with the hurricane, and more a long standing disagreement over just how bad CenterPoint is. Some defend them at all costs, while also paying 10s of thousands of dollars for backup options when CenterPoint fails them. Others seems to think that there's just nothing CenterPoint can do and this is the best we can expect.

In this case, the comparison to Ike is bad. Ike was nearly 20 years ago. Even CenterPoint bragged about their upgrades to make things quicker and better. They spent $100s of millions of dollars to "upgrade the system." They bragged about removing trees away from the lines to stop them from falling on the lines. Yet here we are with the exact same problems. So we should absolutely expect that any recovery this time should be significantly improved over Ike. That's the promise CenterPoint made to us.

And just to set the standard for Ike. They claimed roughly the same number of outages as now and had 75% restored within 10 days. So rough math says the clock stops now when they hit ~540k still without power. The last estimations from CenterPoint puts us near that number on Sunday or 6-7 days after the storm.

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I think people need to go to the NHC site and read the effects of a Cat 1 and 2 in regards to power to readjust mindsets with what is currently happening.

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutsshws.php

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Commonwealth - Bridgewater near Commonwealth Elementary is back on!

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Hearing about a few subdivisions in Sienna getting power back as well (Five Oaks near Ridge Point, Shipman's Landing)...hopefully that trend holds.

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I love the energy capital of the world shame line like that's supposed to move the needle

You want the engineers to get involved? Say when.

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Perhaps I am from a different generation but a lot of folks like to complain. I have my issues with Centerpoint.

But sometimes I wonder if some here just want to suffer instead of getting their ass out of town.

You know… it's really not as simple as just packing up and leaving for many of us.

I finally got my ass out of town tonight. Looked at my Texags profile to see the last time I posted from desktop mode, that was around 5AM Monday morning. Damn.

Okay. You're right. You know everything about my circumstances. Silly me. My generation just sucks so bad.

Give me a freaking break dude.

This is what I'm talking ahout. Hardly anyone has offered to help through this. But here we are with the "my generation was better" nonsense.