Since Alicia 1983 in Houston, many cities have been built around the world and Houston is not coordinated yet, what's wrong? who is to blame? no blames ...nobody's accountable ....will continue. I quit working in the refineries in the Houston area because those in charge are never at fault, some people will get chewed and fire but those on top will stay and same stories on the following disasters, which will hit here again and again sooner or later. A lot of new people will be fired.
I remember Hurricane Alicia. I was 4. It was raining hard and lots of thunder and lightning. Lightning hit a tree in our front yard, the sky turned pink, it was super loud and that tree got split right down the middle. I remember being terrified and clinging to my mother. I don't remember a lot from when I was 4 but I do remember that.
Yes, Energy capital of the world for renewable and oil because they are based here….but did anyone say best infrastructure of the world? NO! What we need is competition not a monopoly.
@@unsilent369compared to other grid maintainers, they’ve been spending a weirdly low amount of money clearing trees around power lines Profit over peep
True, this transformer's internal components could still be in good working order. And since made of copper, are not rusting. But it's mounted and supported to the pole by the outside rusted and compromised metal housing. If at the very least, the outer housing needs attention or replacement just to keep it secured to the pole. I don't see many around town that look this rusted. Probably not uncommon for them to eventually rust for sure. But this one(externally) has seen better days and looks long overdue for "some sort of attention and or maintenance." Not surprising considering : our aging grid, it's aging components, and this "it's not a problem until complete failure occurs" approach by those responsible for taking care of these things.
Blessing in disguise when you think about it .this was just a hurricane cat 1. This is a wake up call to take this matter seriously. Imagine a cat 3 or 4 ??? Every one has to evacuate. Houston isn’t built for this
Houston as designed and engineered is not bright. Middle of gulf coastal swamp (lowland). 50 miles inland... Imagine 180 years ago: this looks like a good place to settle and start start business. Swamp, skeeters, gators not much breeze breeze, no clear drinking water.....
The highest elevation is less than 50', intense winds bring whats called storm surge bud, high tides and low elevation equals what? You guessed it,flooding! @winstonsmith2391
@@patgraeme775 That has nothing to do with the conversation, the original comment (which was deleted) was not talking about flooding but more climate cult doomsday prophecy of "every coastal city" being completely submerged under water unless we repent of our carbon sins and swear allegiance to the great prophet Al Gore.
This wouldn't have happened if CenterPoint had been taking care of and replacing this outdated equipment. You saw the rusted out transformer, unacceptable and the reason the power is out. How old are these poles, snapping days after a Cat 1 storm. No densely populated area shouldn't have to deal with this...
If a tiny little storm did all this, I think it Texas needs to talk about climate resiliency, and spending some money on infrastructure to keep up with the times.
What's deep about all these videos about Beryl is this hurrican is a CATEGORY 1!! All this damage?? Imagine if we get another Harvey?? In May, we went through the Derecho and the damage wasn't even half of this! Wow
@@ahokay3119 Plus the main damage with harvey was that it just kind of parked over us for almost a whole week while dumping endless rain. My house had all kind of new leaks popping up we didn't even know about from just how saturated with water it was getting.
Here's an idea, see all the broken wood power poles? The EPA forbade preservatives for wood, so now most of the telephone poles won't stand up to a storm. Cape Coral is replacing all their wood poles with concrete or steel poles as fast as they can. So, blame the EPA, a Federal agency.
1:50 Pause that standing water is the problem. The ground remains saturated with water making the soil very loose. Therefore not supporting structure man made or natural.
Theres 2 many trees around to many power lines in houston its only common sense hello what doesnt center point understand???? Its not rocket science get red of those trees around power lines...i just dont get it.....cut all trees around power lines its not rocket science hello.......
@@Novastar.SaberCombatreally cutting down trees is going to cost so much money but having the entire power grid go out causing widespread blackouts well that's that's not going to cost us that much money
@@Flokiabob311 Here in Florida our Electric companies start cutting & trimming the trees near Power lines before the Hurricane Season starts. Why don't they do this in Texas?
Last month when we had the straight line winds. We had 4 poles down on the street in front of my house. With a couple snapped in half. This is no big surprise. I was without power for 4 days. I got lucky this time. My power came back on Tuesday the day after the storm.
Center Point thieves from its Customers to line their pockets. Pine pole fail.. Carcinigous creosote come off of them. Use Concrete Power poles like the rest of the Word in hurricane prone areas,
Yes it's bad however there are worse. Now Houston is a huge city and even with the extra help there's only so much these guys can do. Also, I noticed several ppl w/o power Don't have generators and as many hurricanes/storms Houston has gotten they should have gotten one by now.
It's hard to set poles in a saturated ground . Not sure the public really understands how it works. Sure, you can drill, but if the truck is sinking, it's tough . That's a 14 day project at best
……and all of us in Houston will end up paying crazy amounts of surcharges and fees because of the amount of man power center point needs to use to fix it all. The cost of this all falls on us - when we are the ones without power.
So a rusty, should have been replaced years ago, transformer and poles breaking is the worst damage he's seen from this storm... So why are people still out of power?
This is what occurs when Houston looting and power use pine poles instead of steel galvanized polies! The lady said afraid of a fire? The power has been shut down thru the power lines! Another blatant issue why not bury electrical service lines in ground going to subdivisions?
Abbott is a clueless joke all he does is pass the blame. Abbott and his minions need to put their Big Boy pants on and do their job! Enough with the excuses.
@@erikkarlonas180 it’s the government’s responsibility to look out for its citizens not corporate greed; by allowing no oversight of necessary regulatory standards ( that the other states in U.S.have )have been weakened by this Texas governor. All he does is pass the blame until hurricane or freeze. Abbott don’t even care the be hear while 13 of our Texas neighbors die as a result of it
@@erikkarlonas180 it’s the government’s responsibility to look out for its citizens not corporate greed; by allowing no oversight of necessary regulatory standards ( that the other states in U.S.have )have been weakened by this Texas governor. All he does is pass the blame until hurricane or freeze. Abbott don’t even care the be hear while 13 of our Texas neighbors die as a result of it
Why don't they put bracelets metal ones to hold the poles up and when they replaces take them off but it would help out alot like when a leg is broken they put knee brace or something put use it to hold them stronger metal supporters all poles make a idea 💡 🤔.... when u put new ones......
The grid is dated. Just like the customers upgrade their electrical panel so should the utility lines upgrade too 🤦♂️ look at that rusty a** transformer
Of course not. But foresight, preparation, preventative maintenance, and intelligence all factor into the equation. At least, they should. BUT THEY DIDN'T. 😂🤣😂 Oh well. It do be what it do be.
@@Novastar.SaberCombat do you know how many power lines/transformers, power stations, there are in Houston area, and the amount of time it would take to remove and place these things, its hurricane season from july to november, every year, where do you think centerpoint is going to find the man power, and time to do every single one, and with able body MEN on the decline, it's a wonder they are able to do it now
@@rickharnish6757Trump comment was sarcastic. I saw how he handled Puerto Rico throwing paper towels at residents. Wait till your house his leveled by disaster and take those paper towels and shove them in your mouth genius
Looks like poor leadership in Houston to me. I haven’t seen telephones so decrepit in my life. and you guys rely on these to charge your cars, how’s that gonna work out for you?
CENTERPOINTLE$$
🤣🤣🤣🤣🙃
It must've been you 🧐👍
Since Alicia 1983 in Houston, many cities have been built around the world and Houston is not coordinated yet, what's wrong? who is to blame? no blames ...nobody's accountable ....will continue. I quit working in the refineries in the Houston area because those in charge are never at fault, some people will get chewed and fire but those on top will stay and same stories on the following disasters, which will hit here again and again sooner or later. A lot of new people will be fired.
I remember Hurricane Alicia. I was 4. It was raining hard and lots of thunder and lightning. Lightning hit a tree in our front yard, the sky turned pink, it was super loud and that tree got split right down the middle. I remember being terrified and clinging to my mother. I don't remember a lot from when I was 4 but I do remember that.
Energy capital of the world 😂😂😂
Not 😊
Yes, Energy capital of the world for renewable and oil because they are based here….but did anyone say best infrastructure of the world? NO! What we need is competition not a monopoly.
Billion dollar corporation's handy work on display here.
OUR BILLIONS OF DOLLARS! yes.
We have made a mistake by accepting this
What about all that money they laundered in Ukraine 🤑🤑🤑🤑
Mother Nature is a billion dollar company? you people act like a hurricane wasn't suppose to do this much damage.
@@unsilent369compared to other grid maintainers, they’ve been spending a weirdly low amount of money clearing trees around power lines
Profit over peep
@@unsilent369oh, you weren’t ignorant, your a professional corporate simp?
I hope they pass a bill that forces the modernization of utility lines. All old neighborhoods with trees need to have their power lines put under.
Would you have wanted all your main power lines underground during the flooding of Harvey?
Just try digging in Houston. You will hit water quickly. Common sense
They use underground lines in the UK and it rains there all the time. I wonder what they do to prevent flooding?
Republican don't care they are doing anything for infrastructure
The problem is SALT water from tidal surge.
Rusted transformer? That’s a clear sign Centerpoint has not been doing regular maintenance
Not so. It's metal and outside in the elements, of course it will rust. That doesn't affect it's performance.
@@aholmes6612not like that bro lmao that's corroding away
@@DasGoodSoup that's the outer shell, the inside copper and windings are heavily insulated
Money is money.
True, this transformer's internal components could still be in good working order. And since made of copper, are not rusting. But it's mounted and supported to the pole by the outside rusted and compromised metal housing. If at the very least, the outer housing needs attention or replacement just to keep it secured to the pole. I don't see many around town that look this rusted. Probably not uncommon for them to eventually rust for sure. But this one(externally) has seen better days and looks long overdue for "some sort of attention and or maintenance." Not surprising considering : our aging grid, it's aging components, and this "it's not a problem until complete failure occurs" approach by those responsible for taking care of these things.
Blessing in disguise when you think about it .this was just a hurricane cat 1. This is a wake up call to take this matter seriously. Imagine a cat 3 or 4 ??? Every one has to evacuate. Houston isn’t built for this
Most of the west, gulf and east coasts will soon be under water and the government has KNOWN.
@@williambrown2830 How are they going to be under water?LOL
Houston as designed and engineered is not bright. Middle of gulf coastal swamp (lowland). 50 miles inland...
Imagine 180 years ago: this looks like a good place to settle and start start business.
Swamp, skeeters, gators not much breeze breeze, no clear drinking water.....
The highest elevation is less than 50', intense winds bring whats called storm surge bud, high tides and low elevation equals what? You guessed it,flooding! @winstonsmith2391
@@patgraeme775 That has nothing to do with the conversation, the original comment (which was deleted) was not talking about flooding but more climate cult doomsday prophecy of "every coastal city" being completely submerged under water unless we repent of our carbon sins and swear allegiance to the great prophet Al Gore.
This wouldn't have happened if CenterPoint had been taking care of and replacing this outdated equipment. You saw the rusted out transformer, unacceptable and the reason the power is out. How old are these poles, snapping days after a Cat 1 storm. No densely populated area shouldn't have to deal with this...
Money is all that matters.💪😎✌️
@@Novastar.SaberCombat No, human life matters more than anything and that's why we will fight the bullies into submission...God Bless...
Yup yet Urkraine gets millions of dollars each month
@BarrierIsland actually we can put a price on an average human life is worth on average 1M over a 50 yr lifespan. Hence life insurance
Exactly! We used to get through stronger hurricanes!
Wow I’m so scared for her.. cause that shit can fall in the middle of the night.. pray for Texas 😓
Houston is under divine judgment more coming .
America its self will be under that judgement soon enough
Me and my brother were just talking about that. Very dark cloud over this city that wasn’t here a decade ago.
If a tiny little storm did all this, I think it Texas needs to talk about climate resiliency, and spending some money on infrastructure to keep up with the times.
You expect Abbot to do anything positve for the state? It will NEVER happen. The power grid has been effed for decades.
Short term profits tho!
A tiny little storm huh? You realize that "tiny little storm" with 100 mph winds for hours on end caused tornadoes from Texas to NY, right?
@LoriL010 that's my point. Just imagine it being a category five of the same storm.
Isn’t in the governor’s agenda
How weak does a city have to be for a cat1 storm to shut it down 😅😂😊
Wood utility poles in a place that regularly experiences hurricane winds.
So you think metal would fare better? LOL!!!!
They are slowly replacing them with some sort of metal ones...saw a few go up 6 months ago near me.
@@stephanie_smith I doubt they are metal. They might look like metal.
@@GregLakatosChradm We have Concrete Utility poles here in Florida.
Contractors are installing metal poles in North Texas.
What's deep about all these videos about Beryl is this hurrican is a CATEGORY 1!! All this damage?? Imagine if we get another Harvey?? In May, we went through the Derecho and the damage wasn't even half of this! Wow
Harvey was a TS when it hit Houston.
@@ahokay3119 Plus the main damage with harvey was that it just kind of parked over us for almost a whole week while dumping endless rain.
My house had all kind of new leaks popping up we didn't even know about from just how saturated with water it was getting.
Lines need to go underground.
Where was this exactly?!
Infrastructure meant roads to too many Texans on a one way street.
We got power in Baytown 7-11-24.
Got power?
Here's an idea, see all the broken wood power poles? The EPA forbade preservatives for wood, so now most of the telephone poles won't stand up to a storm. Cape Coral is replacing all their wood poles with concrete or steel poles as fast as they can. So, blame the EPA, a Federal agency.
You act surprised that several weakened utility poles can domino.
I wouldn't be standing that close.
1:50 Pause that standing water is the problem. The ground remains saturated with water making the soil very loose. Therefore not supporting structure man made or natural.
Theres 2 many trees around to many power lines in houston its only common sense hello what doesnt center point understand???? Its not rocket science get red of those trees around power lines...i just dont get it.....cut all trees around power lines its not rocket science hello.......
Money.
@@Novastar.SaberCombatreally cutting down trees is going to cost so much money but having the entire power grid go out causing widespread blackouts well that's that's not going to cost us that much money
Yessss I agree. I think there should be mandate about trees and power lines. No trees within 100ft of power lines!!!
@@Flokiabob311 Here in Florida our Electric companies start cutting & trimming the trees near Power lines before the Hurricane Season starts. Why don't they do this in Texas?
Follow the lead of Netherlands and Sweden as they cut trees and brush back regularly and prior to storms. Not that difficult.
It went from Wednesday to Friday to the end of the week now it’s next week.
The neighborhood I live our power lines are under ground.
bury the damn lines
This well-meaning woman has just inadvertently talked up her insurance premium by 18%.
OMg! It’s the trees! It’s always been the trees!
Where’s center point I thought they were hard at work
Last month when we had the straight line winds. We had 4 poles down on the street in front of my house. With a couple snapped in half. This is no big surprise. I was without power for 4 days. I got lucky this time. My power came back on Tuesday the day after the storm.
The "rusted transformer...." good job?
Mayne, I’m perplexed
You can't rush dangerous work like this.
0:01 What a strange used Toyota Corolla commercial.
IT IS HARD FIXING THAT SPIDERWEB 🕸 😂😂😂
Where are those 12,000 lineman that Centerpoint said were coming
Sitting negotiating deals
Get in line lady and wait your turn!
Facts
All these videos have to be documented someone needs to be held accountable
When you care more about profits than quality
This looks like my neighborhood. Scared to drive down the street because there are poles tilted and close to falling along with trees as well
Even the minor repairs have not been quick
This just in... Center Point Energy announces huge rate hike is on the way.
Center Point thieves from its Customers to line their pockets. Pine pole fail.. Carcinigous creosote come off of them. Use Concrete Power poles like the rest of the Word in hurricane prone areas,
Why are not homeowners charge of cutting down the trees?
They need to bury all electricity lines. It'll cost a lot of money. Start rising the rates.
Utilities lines in tornado and hurricane prone areas need to be ran underground! DUUUHHH!
Didn't know Nicholas Cage, did commentary
Yes it's bad however there are worse. Now Houston is a huge city and even with the extra help there's only so much these guys can do. Also, I noticed several ppl w/o power Don't have generators and as many hurricanes/storms Houston has gotten they should have gotten one by now.
Did y’all think the storm was gonna make it better?
What street is this?
Imagine using wooden poles for powerlines like cmon smh..........
When there is no power, how will the lines spark fire 🤨🤔
Thought better of Texas when I moved here to Houston 3 years ago ,but I’m disappointed
There’s better states to live in
It's hard to set poles in a saturated ground . Not sure the public really understands how it works. Sure, you can drill, but if the truck is sinking, it's tough . That's a 14 day project at best
80% by this weekend?? Should've been 100% done DAYS ago
where's the urgency?
The power doesn't just affect peoples homes but also people's jobs ... Remember that center pointless
as they stand in the street in front of leaning power lines....
Whole billion dollar corporation and the infrastructure is collapsing
The mask has come off of Centerpointless
Residents need to get that mess cleaned up because code enforcement will be out in full force writing tickets.
That way there not so many broken or try some with metal bracket just to see if it helps that way not many wood poles are broken
We should ask other countries to help.
What is CP supposed to do then? Fix it? Like, how is fixing electric poles and transformers an electricity company's responsibility huh?
CenterPoint and Governor made this happen
……and all of us in Houston will end up paying crazy amounts of surcharges and fees because of the amount of man power center point needs to use to fix it all.
The cost of this all falls on us - when we are the ones without power.
Seems about tejus to me...
So where are all the CP lineman? Where are all the public works crews? Where did all the disaster money go? This is unacceptable!
So a rusty, should have been replaced years ago, transformer and poles breaking is the worst damage he's seen from this storm... So why are people still out of power?
Those power lines belong to the 1900’s!!!!!! Not 2024!
I wonder how many center point bosses have power. I bet it's all of them.
This is what occurs when Houston looting and power use pine poles instead of steel galvanized polies! The lady said afraid of a fire? The power has been shut down thru the power lines! Another blatant issue why not bury electrical service lines in ground going to subdivisions?
Weather control 😳😳😳
Because spending time and money to anonymously tear things up is better than making billions selling guaranteed perfect weather.
@@higgs923 You sure took the fun out of that conspiracy!
@@fueymanchoo1291 🤣😂😂
Dominos sucks here..
And our so called Governor is ducking all responsibility by taking a trip to Asia. Pitiful......
Is governor hotwheels back from Asia yet
what you expect him to do? go to your house and fix it? lol
Everybody wants to be 1st 😅
Abbott is a clueless joke all he does is pass the blame. Abbott and his minions need to put their Big Boy pants on and do their job! Enough with the excuses.
It isn’t Abbott. It’s centerpoint not paying its employees and help from out of state
There you go again bringing politics and love for beto
@@rr-rickyimagine how much hate for blu donkeys you’d hear if this happened in California
@@erikkarlonas180 it’s the government’s responsibility to look out for its citizens not corporate greed; by allowing no oversight of necessary regulatory standards ( that the other states in U.S.have )have been weakened by this Texas governor. All he does is pass the blame until hurricane or freeze. Abbott don’t even care the be hear while 13 of our Texas neighbors die as a result of it
@@erikkarlonas180 it’s the government’s responsibility to look out for its citizens not corporate greed; by allowing no oversight of necessary regulatory standards ( that the other states in U.S.have )have been weakened by this Texas governor. All he does is pass the blame until hurricane or freeze. Abbott don’t even care the be hear while 13 of our Texas neighbors die as a result of it
Where are the portable large capacity generators that the national guard and reserves use??? People are dying as gov abbot is vacationing in Asia!
THE WIRES ARE DOWN DA. LOL!!!!
Why don't they put bracelets metal ones to hold the poles up and when they replaces take them off but it would help out alot like when a leg is broken they put knee brace or something put use it to hold them stronger metal supporters all poles make a idea 💡 🤔.... when u put new ones......
So put a new one up n then add metal supporters idea when add new 🪵 wood.... and when they replace them remove them lol 😂
The grid is dated. Just like the customers upgrade their electrical panel so should the utility lines upgrade too 🤦♂️ look at that rusty a** transformer
Contrary to popular opinion there is no magic wand
Wouldn't need one if they performed regularly maintenance and upgrading old equipment. Ffs
Of course not. But foresight, preparation, preventative maintenance, and intelligence all factor into the equation. At least, they should. BUT THEY DIDN'T. 😂🤣😂 Oh well. It do be what it do be.
@@Novastar.SaberCombat do you know how many power lines/transformers, power stations, there are in Houston area, and the amount of time it would take to remove and place these things, its hurricane season from july to november, every year, where do you think centerpoint is going to find the man power, and time to do every single one, and with able body MEN on the decline, it's a wonder they are able to do it now
Natural Disasters
It’s ok. The money is going to illegals for new Xbox’s. And shrimp. 😅
Penny wise and dollar foolish Center Pointless.
Give Billions to Youcrane and Not America.
Where's Elon musk bright ideas wheres Trump.😅😅😅😅
You need to vote for Trump to get Trump!
@@rickharnish6757nothing but crickets
@@rickharnish6757Trump comment was sarcastic. I saw how he handled Puerto Rico throwing paper towels at residents. Wait till your house his leveled by disaster and take those paper towels and shove them in your mouth genius
Lazy and greed for a blue city
Electricity is not real.
Where is the governor
Looks like poor leadership in Houston to me. I haven’t seen telephones so decrepit in my life. and you guys rely on these to charge your cars, how’s that gonna work out for you?
And they send the black reporter .
Oh no I'm too bad you're not already cuz you know what round to come in say goodbye Houston you shouldn't have discussed me to my call I m u God 🐢
Oh no, those poor people 😢 😞