@arthurfoyt6727 people are still without power 13 days in, retirement homes, schools, nursing facilities. It doesn't even matter how quick it was restored it shouldn't have happened in the first place numb nuts.
@@askmewhosjoe6682 Ike was NOT a cat 3 inside of Houston you dypshyte. I know, I weathered that one too. I can say that THIS ONE was more violent as far as winds than Ike.
It’s not just the food. We had to relocate 2 hours away and pay for a hotel due to the heat. My family wouldn’t have been able to stay home during 5 days in the Texas heat without serious medical concerns. The food sucks. Not nearly as expensive as the forced evacuation from a poor grid infrastructure
Question is why does Abbott and the Texas Legislature keep getting reelected when they obviously care more about making their rich oil friends happy than protecting the infrastructure of their state? Don't expect anything to change.
In the woodlands, magnolia, conroe-montgomery area. We've been experiencing power outages for years & years, from NO BAD WEATHER AT ALL, everytime it pours down rain, or thunder we sweat it. Even on clear SUNNY days We've had power outages, BUT WE HAVE "ENTERGY", electric.. not sure if they are all connected ie...centerpoint, reliant or not. But i know since 2010, ive lost all my food 5 times, blew out a wall plug, fried a frigerator in garage... each time when calling PUC, PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION in Austin to file a complaint, nothing was done, NADA!!! After soooooo many calls-complaints by residents, actually received a call from a claims department within ENTERGY (years later) stating they could do nothing about it... I then said, well we're not done, All these trees leaning towards the roads, all these trees leaning on your power lines, IS YOUR RESPONSIBILTY, so you either get these trees cut down, or youll be facing worse charges when trees fall on a moving car, or just someone walking. I had checked to see if WE residents out here back in 2010 could just go with another electric company, (Power to Choose 😅 what a joke). Entergy is the ONLY ONE in our area we can use, found out they signed into a 100 year contract a long time ago.. So besides Centerpoints CEO issues, i do believe HOUSTON, does have (The power to choose) electric providers...so switch to another... We should have the same rights, i dont care if a provider wrote into a thousand year contract, if your not getting the services your paying for, what the hell is wrong with our country!!!
this lawsuit on spoiled food does not make sense. Centerpoint can pay $500 per household and for 1000 household it is only 500,000. It is nothing for them since they are earning billions. Lawsuit should be from people losing relatives and should be like 500M or more in damages
Of course it is. I've lost power 3 times this week. I'm 47. I've never had power go out 3 times in a week in my whole life. This is becoming intentional.
I basically grew up in Houston. For the first 40 years, it basically took a hurricane to put the lights out. Now, the electricity goes off all the time, multiple times a year. Inddustry cannot tolerate power outages like this. This is why many third world countries cannot attract industry - their electrical grids are not reliable enough. Wait till businesses begin leaving. Once that starts, its too late to stop it or reverse it. Houston will become Detroit 2.0.
Too bad corporate execs care more about greed and less about longevity and their customers. Rather pinch pennies than use any bit of foresite and secure the future.
You clearly didn't grow up in Houston because these so called, "electricity goes off all the time" isn't happening here. Quit the lies you basement dweller.
One of the problems with Centerpoint is very much shown by their failure to do basic things. For over 2 years, our local Rural Electric has been working on clearing power lines and repairing/replacing key poles. Our repairmen went to help them. The way things are going perhaps they should return to Central Texas.
The lady talking about the PTDS over Centerpoint is no joke. A bad storm in 2008 left my area (Clear Lake) without power for i think it was 7 days. Alllll these years later i have mild PTSD over it. Anytime the power goes out! All true, all Centerpoint!!!!
@@arthurfoyt6727 Of Course Genius!!! There's a lot more too it. A brilliant mind like yours should know much more is affected than yourself. Is your job open, how long until it is, are your roadways flooded, how long until stores are open, ect. Dunce..
It really is enough at this point. Strom after storm, Hurricane after hurricane and now in these years freeze after freeze. Living on the SE Texas coast these things are expected, but at the same time the NEGLEANCE on Centerpoint is OUTRAGEOUS. You didn't have crews here ready to go to restore us? You know the hurricane always hits Houston. Inexcusable on all levels. They know what the city has been through in past years with these storms! WE HAVE PTSD BECAUSE OF CENTERPOINT!!!
The sudden Derecho was one thing, and I can moderately excuse that. But failure to plan and mobilize despite KNOWING the hurricane was going to hit Houston all week is absurd. There is no excuse. Tack on their lack of transparency (which is something I can and will never understand from these corporate entities), and you have a full understanding of why people are pissed.
Center point needs to go! The city hast to come up with a better plan, and a qualifying company that does not neglect their customers that pay them a fortune. This isn’t the first time that Center point has neglected their customers. I last year had vegetation, which is still all over my lines hanging to my house. I called Center point. They came out here and it said that it was nothing to do with the equipment that it belong on the homeowner and the house. I had electrician paid to come out here to find out that it had nothing to do with the house that it was actually Center point equipment on one of their polls was disconnected and torn, because the vegetation and me and my family was actually getting shocked through faucets, and everything that we touched in the house
Speaking with the out of state linemen working my neighborhood, the supervisor remarked that the Houston infrastructure was the third worse they have encountered over the years.
I'm certain that Abbott will be temporarily "outraged." This is not the first time that Texas has faced issues, and he's nowhere to be found on this matter.
Yes, CenterPoint failed and should be held accountable. So did the State government, these energy companies are supposed to be regulated. Regulations are there to protect people. Where were the regulators??? Abbott, Paxton, Patrick, where were you before the storm hit holding CenterPoint accountable?????.
They are for profit? Hello.. You got what you voted for, "CenterPoint Energy CEO David Lesar made $37.8 million in 2021, far more than any peer utility executive, as customers see bigger bills". He's up over 40 mill a year now.
Oh and my fellow citizens, lets prepare for extreme power bills. Because Centerpoint needs to pay the other companies that came to help us. I had a downed powerline and was without power for 7 days. If it wasnt for Alabama Power erecting a new power pole in about an hr, I bet my retirement I would still have no power.......
As a person whose power company ( not in Tx ) keeps losing or settling lawsuits what all these people need to realize if they win the power company will just raise ever ones bill to cover the cost .
You hadn't had a major storm since Ike in 2009. CenterPoint had a legal and moral obligation to maintain the grid. Tree Trimming, maintenance and replacement of faulty wires, poles, and transformers. That never happened which is why Cat 1 Beryl was so devastating to the area. What if it had been a Cat 3-5??? This is a wakeup call to never let it happen again. 10 deaths from hyperthermia and needless suffering for those left without AC. CenterPoint will have to learn how to run their company from FPL in Florida...God Bless...
I had filed a complaint to the PUC before Beryl even happened due to outages at my home every other month for years, and basically they came back along the lines of they did not find anything wrong in their operations, BULLSHIT WHAT ABOUT NOW?!?
After the Winter Storm, and Beryl, I wonder if this lawsuit is class-action, because I'm here for it, after spending a week in the dark during a heat wave!
As someone who went a week without power and slept in 90 degree weather inside and unable to leave the city. Centerpoint needs to be held accountable. This has not been the first, second , or third time they have had issues. These guys have been pocketing money and have not done anything to fix the infrastructure.
@@arthurfoyt6727 You completely missed the point dumba** They have a lawsuit for a reason, an entire city upset at them for a reason, You should probably close your mouth if your brain is not capable of connecting the dots.
A tree in my backyard fell on the power line and the pole fell. They came and fixed the power line pole but there is still another tree close to the power line that they didn't trim down.
If Cneterpoint pays, the consumer will take up the difference. There is no other provider so there is no competition. I am not defending CP< but that is what will happen.
Let this teach all of us to be better prepared for self sustainability. Especially after this cyber attack affected hospitals. YES, IT DID. NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THAT!!!!!
Anybody has lived in Houston for any length of time knows Houston gets hurricanes so why wouldn’t you prepare your house and your family with a generator but no, we just blame others
Texas didn’t want to have to comply with federal regulations so they set up their own power grid and run it their way. Their way is to usually fail when people need it the most. If they joined the federal power grid, they wouldn’t have so many failures but they would have to obey federal regulations on gauging consumers and that would cut profits.
And people should have done their part in helping with the mess that was created by this storm People wouldn’t let them go into their backyard People gave one of them water bottles and one of those bottles had drugs in it I still believe that they were doing the best that they could And whatever happened to fixing the grid So much money has been put into it We couldn’t have stopped the hurricane and they couldn’t have started until they knew what they were getting into
Thank god we have ercot and not part of the national electrical grid. I rather spend more money on less reliable and more expensive power. I am glad to be a Texan.
@@troybaxter You're nuts. Did you see how vast the area of destruction was? Taking a week to remove trees, raise new lines, test, and then power back up in an area of 200 square miles TAKES TIME.
That hilarious how this law firm is acting heroic for going after $80 per plaintiff while standing to make millions. They should lose as much as Centerpoint.
Your insurance will compensate you for spoiled food. You live in a hurricane prone area so with that it is you who should be prepared for disasters. If you do not like flooding or power outages then leave hurricane prone areas. I have lived all of my life in hurricane prone areas and we prepare for disasters so our food does not spoil, we are not hot from air being off etc. It is your responsibility to be prepared NOT the power company. If trees are the root cause of all of the power outage impacts then petition all of your politicians to pass a law preventing trees within 100ft of power lines. Common sense shows 99% of the power outages are related to trees falling on power lines so remove the trees away from power lines or make the power companies put power underground and future storms wont cause that much of an impact
Also the lawyers make the most $$ from class action lawsuits so yes the lawyers will be quick to file a class action lawsuit as long as they have enough dummies willing to be on that lawsuit
Put some smart knowledgeable people in a room. 1. Determine what it cost for 50,70% of the grid to be able to stay up when a category one storm passes over the area. Pass that on to the elected officials and let them determine if the work should be completed and cost picked up by? ( 80% of the grid failed this time)
As a Houstonian who experienced the outage... The PTSD of checking the weather daily and fearing rain is real. Most of us FEAR another Ike or Harvey if Beryl did this as a Cat 1.
Less bots, more corporate shills. There will always be people that shill for these corporations, and will find any means necessary to justify a company's ineptitude.
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@@troybaxter i dont disagree some idiots just let to disagree to be contrary they dont have a logical argument
The Texas power grid appears infrastructure weak placing great expense on home grown sources of energy such as Texas natural gas and wind turbines over high durability, reliability and minimal electricity rates. These are vastly more expensive than new ultra super critical clean coal power plants burning high BTU coal, but Texas doesn't have high BTU coal. The most troublesome power grids are in Southern California because not only are they unreliable they actually start fires with their outdated high voltage transmission lines sparking during high winds with under controlled flammable undergrowth. Most of those SoCa power grids are in bankruptcy or fear it. They also have the most expensive electricity in the USA even higher than Hawaii in the case of San Diego CA. Nuclear power has been expected since the 1950s to take over power generation with cheapest form of electricity, but the high expense and large evacuation zones for the current form of high pressure water reactors and little demand for new power plants has greatly curtailed new builds.
🙄 wrong this issue starts with u guys, transferring blame smh u guys have the power and authority not cp to control who going to support us, if they can’t handle this big load with us, move em on im sure someone wants some Texas gold.
You are a true dimwit. I know you fantasize about Trump. Look at you. This is about an incompetent power company and you are over there jerking off, thinking of Trump.
The only area in the whole State that has these systemic issues is the Houston metropolitan area. Texas is vast like a country and not once in 47 years did I experience a flood in central Texas, nor have I ever experienced a power outage. The Houston area is a corrupt Democrat controlled area. You people act like Houston is representative of the whole State. Interesting, u mentioned “MAGA” when ironically the conservative areas in central, north, and West don’t have these problems.
@@SwaggerLikeUz Consider yourself LUCKY! I have friends and family all over Texas (not Houston thankfully) that I drive to visit. I know better! The foods EXCELLENT though!!
Ever since the deep freeze we had a couple years ago my power goes out if the weather farts. Hours with out power because of a small storm is insane. A sever thunder storm? Could be 2 or 3 days. Hurricane? 5 or more. Its unacceptable! I have lost everything in my fridge and freezer 3 times in the last 4 months. I can't keep this up :(
People have to understand centerpoint is legit the only one fixing the power lines and that ofc it’s gonna take at least a week with a hurricane that had 100+ mph winds
I understand where you come from but we have data indicating centerpoint has spent 1/4 the amount cutting trees that other power companies do. They used to cut the trees down the middle of each Street on a regular basis. They don't do that anymore. Now we have trees growing around the power lines. There are trees in my neighborhood with power lines passing through the middle of the trees. After the wind storm in may, they had a good warning that the trees were going to be a problem and they still did nothing. Yes it was a hurricane with gusts over 100 miles an hour but they haven't been doing their job. And one of their executives said there was nothing they could do when clearly there are things they can do that other power companies do.
Over 30 years living in Texas and I've never seen something so embarrassing as the way centerpoint fails at the most basic things.
They restored power TWICE AS FAST as Hurricane Ike.
How is that a bad thing?
@arthurfoyt6727 people are still without power 13 days in, retirement homes, schools, nursing facilities. It doesn't even matter how quick it was restored it shouldn't have happened in the first place numb nuts.
@@arthurfoyt6727wow they repaired a category 1s aftermath raster than a category 3s? You don’t say?
@@askmewhosjoe6682 Ike was NOT a cat 3 inside of Houston you dypshyte. I know, I weathered that one too. I can say that THIS ONE was more violent as far as winds than Ike.
@@arthurfoyt6727Said the Centerpoint upper management.😒😒😒😒😒
i think the question is not why they have the least reliable power grid, but who let them get away with it.
No one held them accountable so they sat back and kept counting money.
Exactly, who's pocket was lined with that money. Governor and Lt.governor, I'm sure have full pockets with your money.
no one held them accountable . all started when texas wanted to have its own grid.
How wheels…
Yes!
Awesome. Some lawyers will get richer and some people will get $5 checks for their spoiled food!
And it will be passed on to us.
Fine by me the goal is to make them fix the darn grid
At least there doing something instead of hating like you.
You work for them?
@@ScottEricInvestments But they won't fix it. Just like that have had many warnings. But never really do anything to "fix" the problem.
No worries… CenterPoint executives will still get their huge year end bonuses.
Since they restored power TWICE AS FAST as with hurricane Ike.... why not?
@@arthurfoyt6727Apparently this is Centerpoint's upper management. 😒😒😒😒
@@arthurfoyt6727you really want your bonus don’t you
@@arthurfoyt6727😏
It’s not just the food.
We had to relocate 2 hours away and pay for a hotel due to the heat. My family wouldn’t have been able to stay home during 5 days in the Texas heat without serious medical concerns. The food sucks. Not nearly as expensive as the forced evacuation from a poor grid infrastructure
maybe dont show the truck in the thumbnail. show the executives and the politicians and the outdated equipment they insist on keeping around
This has nothing to do with politicians stupid 😂
@@JamesR414 yes it does lmao
@@VivaLaZach no nothing like that.
@@JamesR414 wow wake up
@user-sj8op6bc6h never was asleep but okay 👍
Let me guess, LAWYERS will get $150 million dollars and people who join the lawsuit will get $27 each.
I mean they are suing for spoiled food, so you can't expect to get much lmfao.
We pay more for electricity than other places in the country but have the worst service. That's what deregulation does.
Question is why does Abbott and the Texas Legislature keep getting reelected when they obviously care more about making their rich oil friends happy than protecting the infrastructure of their state? Don't expect anything to change.
You got to pay attention to who you're voting for in your states Corporation Commission, that's what we call I here in Arizona.
Oil has nothing to do with it. THE BUSHWACKERS MADE THIS MESS WHEN THEY DEREGULATED ELECTRICITY WITHOUT THE PUBLIC PERMISSION OR VOTE.
Basic Republican stupidity 🙄
How about pointing some fingers at the democrats that are in charge of Houston/Harris county, like little miss Hidalgo herself?
CenterpointLess must go‼️🤨
In the woodlands, magnolia, conroe-montgomery area. We've been experiencing power outages for years & years, from NO BAD WEATHER AT ALL, everytime it pours down rain, or thunder we sweat it.
Even on clear SUNNY days We've had power outages, BUT WE HAVE "ENTERGY", electric.. not sure if they are all connected ie...centerpoint, reliant or not.
But i know since 2010, ive lost all my food 5 times, blew out a wall plug, fried a frigerator in garage... each time when calling PUC, PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION in Austin to file a complaint, nothing was done, NADA!!!
After soooooo many calls-complaints by residents, actually received a call from a claims department within ENTERGY (years later) stating they could do nothing about it...
I then said, well we're not done, All these trees leaning towards the roads, all these trees leaning on your power lines, IS YOUR RESPONSIBILTY, so you either get these trees cut down, or youll be facing worse charges when trees fall on a moving car, or just someone walking.
I had checked to see if WE residents out here back in 2010 could just go with another electric company, (Power to Choose 😅 what a joke).
Entergy is the ONLY ONE in our area we can use, found out they signed into a 100 year contract a long time ago..
So besides Centerpoints CEO issues, i do believe HOUSTON, does have (The power to choose) electric providers...so switch to another...
We should have the same rights, i dont care if a provider wrote into a thousand year contract, if your not getting the services your paying for, what the hell is wrong with our country!!!
revoke their monopoly!
this lawsuit on spoiled food does not make sense. Centerpoint can pay $500 per household and for 1000 household it is only 500,000. It is nothing for them since they are earning billions. Lawsuit should be from people losing relatives and should be like 500M or more in damages
2 million without power times $500.00 = ONE BILLION DOLLARS.
The ceo makes that every year.@@xvxSKYNETxvx
@@k7aya i will take what i can get
Of course it is. I've lost power 3 times this week. I'm 47. I've never had power go out 3 times in a week in my whole life. This is becoming intentional.
I basically grew up in Houston. For the first 40 years, it basically took a hurricane to put the lights out. Now, the electricity goes off all the time, multiple times a year.
Inddustry cannot tolerate power outages like this. This is why many third world countries cannot attract industry - their electrical grids are not reliable enough.
Wait till businesses begin leaving. Once that starts, its too late to stop it or reverse it. Houston will become Detroit 2.0.
Too bad corporate execs care more about greed and less about longevity and their customers. Rather pinch pennies than use any bit of foresite and secure the future.
You clearly didn't grow up in Houston because these so called, "electricity goes off all the time" isn't happening here. Quit the lies you basement dweller.
One of the problems with Centerpoint is very much shown by their failure to do basic things.
For over 2 years, our local Rural Electric has been working on clearing power lines and repairing/replacing key poles.
Our repairmen went to help them. The way things are going perhaps they should return to Central Texas.
The lady talking about the PTDS over Centerpoint is no joke. A bad storm in 2008 left my area (Clear Lake) without power for i think it was 7 days. Alllll these years later i have mild PTSD over it. Anytime the power goes out! All true, all Centerpoint!!!!
Man I was in the middle of saving my game when the power went off. Corrupted my save file. It gave me PTSD.
@@helloidharbl6753 You still play games? What a Lame D
All these years.... and you never bought a generator for hurricanes? Are you nuts?
@@arthurfoyt6727 Of Course Genius!!! There's a lot more too it. A brilliant mind like yours should know much more is affected than yourself. Is your job open, how long until it is, are your roadways flooded, how long until stores are open, ect. Dunce..
@@helloidharbl6753 If video games cross your mind at all during this convo,, you definitely make the P dry
It really is enough at this point. Strom after storm, Hurricane after hurricane and now in these years freeze after freeze. Living on the SE Texas coast these things are expected, but at the same time the NEGLEANCE on Centerpoint is OUTRAGEOUS. You didn't have crews here ready to go to restore us? You know the hurricane always hits Houston. Inexcusable on all levels. They know what the city has been through in past years with these storms! WE HAVE PTSD BECAUSE OF CENTERPOINT!!!
The sudden Derecho was one thing, and I can moderately excuse that. But failure to plan and mobilize despite KNOWING the hurricane was going to hit Houston all week is absurd. There is no excuse. Tack on their lack of transparency (which is something I can and will never understand from these corporate entities), and you have a full understanding of why people are pissed.
No we don't snowflake! Get over yourself.
Center point needs to go! The city hast to come up with a better plan, and a qualifying company that does not neglect their customers that pay them a fortune. This isn’t the first time that Center point has neglected their customers. I last year had vegetation, which is still all over my lines hanging to my house. I called Center point. They came out here and it said that it was nothing to do with the equipment that it belong on the homeowner and the house. I had electrician paid to come out here to find out that it had nothing to do with the house that it was actually Center point equipment on one of their polls was disconnected and torn, because the vegetation and me and my family was actually getting shocked through faucets, and everything that we touched in the house
Stop voting for such horrible governors may?
😂😂😂🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️
Thanks to Gregg Abbott
What about the huge gas bill from running your generator
Speaking with the out of state linemen working my neighborhood, the supervisor remarked that the Houston infrastructure was the third worse they have encountered over the years.
Honestly, I don’t understand how CenterPoint hasn’t been under federal investigation.
We lose power ALL THE TIME here. In Dallas, we NEVER lost power.
I'm certain that Abbott will be temporarily "outraged." This is not the first time that Texas has faced issues, and he's nowhere to be found on this matter.
Why isn’t the governor doing anything?
He is too busy kissing up to rump.
Yes, CenterPoint failed and should be held accountable. So did the State government, these energy companies are supposed to be regulated. Regulations are there to protect people. Where were the regulators??? Abbott, Paxton, Patrick, where were you before the storm hit holding CenterPoint accountable?????.
They are for profit? Hello.. You got what you voted for, "CenterPoint Energy CEO David Lesar made $37.8 million in 2021, far more than any peer utility executive, as customers see bigger bills". He's up over 40 mill a year now.
How much insurance money is Centerpoint receiving from their insurance coverage that they are not telling the public or the state?
My thanks and greatfulness goes to Alabama Power.
So thankful I have CO-OP
Feel bad for all of you dealing with power issues around Houston 😞
Oh and my fellow citizens, lets prepare for extreme power bills. Because Centerpoint needs to pay the other companies that came to help us. I had a downed powerline and was without power for 7 days. If it wasnt for Alabama Power erecting a new power pole in about an hr, I bet my retirement I would still have no power.......
As a person whose power company ( not in Tx ) keeps losing or settling lawsuits what all these people need to realize if they win the power company will just raise ever ones bill to cover the cost .
That's Texas!
You hadn't had a major storm since Ike in 2009. CenterPoint had a legal and moral obligation to maintain the grid. Tree Trimming, maintenance and replacement of faulty wires, poles, and transformers. That never happened which is why Cat 1 Beryl was so devastating to the area. What if it had been a Cat 3-5??? This is a wakeup call to never let it happen again. 10 deaths from hyperthermia and needless suffering for those left without AC. CenterPoint will have to learn how to run their company from FPL in Florida...God Bless...
I had filed a complaint to the PUC before Beryl even happened due to outages at my home every other month for years, and basically they came back along the lines of they did not find anything wrong in their operations, BULLSHIT WHAT ABOUT NOW?!?
After the Winter Storm, and Beryl, I wonder if this lawsuit is class-action, because I'm here for it, after spending a week in the dark during a heat wave!
As someone who went a week without power and slept in 90 degree weather inside and unable to leave the city.
Centerpoint needs to be held accountable. This has not been the first, second , or third time they have had issues.
These guys have been pocketing money and have not done anything to fix the infrastructure.
WHY THE HELL did you not buy a generator after the freezes and windstorms?
It's YOUR FAULT for not being prepared for a hurricane. Sheeesh!
@@arthurfoyt6727 You completely missed the point dumba**
They have a lawsuit for a reason, an entire city upset at them for a reason,
You should probably close your mouth if your brain is not capable of connecting the dots.
@@arthurfoyt6727 There is a reason they have a lawsuit.
please do not open your mouth if you cannot connect the dots
A tree in my backyard fell on the power line and the pole fell. They came and fixed the power line pole but there is still another tree close to the power line that they didn't trim down.
I wonder what the repercussions are going to be for Centerpoint cuz I have to tell you they're acting like they're not worried about it
Still without power in Westheimer area, Who can I contact to join this lawsuit or how do I do so. This absolutely ridiculous.
Abbott LOVES Centerpointless!
Next on the list should be the Houston Permitting Center!! Incompetent and careless employees with backroom deals
If Cneterpoint pays, the consumer will take up the difference. There is no other provider so there is no competition. I am not defending CP< but that is what will happen.
A public utility more negligent than PG&E? Impossible!
Let this teach all of us to be better prepared for self sustainability. Especially after this cyber attack affected hospitals. YES, IT DID. NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THAT!!!!!
Last year CenterPoint CEO made $38 Million. Why.
Frivolous lawsuit!
Hope you follow up on how any lawsuits affect the CEO's salary + bonuses.
Anybody has lived in Houston for any length of time knows Houston gets hurricanes so why wouldn’t you prepare your house and your family with a generator but no, we just blame others
Didnt we learn with ERCOT a few years back???? Like the 2 are not intertwined
Texas didn’t want to have to comply with federal regulations so they set up their own power grid and run it their way. Their way is to usually fail when people need it the most. If they joined the federal power grid, they wouldn’t have so many failures but they would have to obey federal regulations on gauging consumers and that would cut profits.
One might even say the situation has reached a… boiling point.
Turn off the power to the Governors Mansion for 2 weeks. See how he likes it.
Screw it, how can I get in on this lawsuit?
They've been allowed to do a horrible job, so we get a terrible job time and time again.
After the company made over 6 billion dollars, they need to pay out tha a##.
How can we join this lawsuit?
They charge $20 per month just to keep you hooked up.
And people should have done their part in helping with the mess that was created by this storm
People wouldn’t let them go into their backyard
People gave one of them water bottles and one of those bottles had drugs in it
I still believe that they were doing the best that they could
And whatever happened to fixing the grid
So much money has been put into it
We couldn’t have stopped the hurricane and they couldn’t have started until they knew what they were getting into
CP is currently tallying their storm expenses to then give it to its customers and get a profit on top of thar
Thank god we have ercot and not part of the national electrical grid. I rather spend more money on less reliable and more expensive power. I am glad to be a Texan.
Since power was restored 2 TIMES FASTER than with hurricane Ike, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?
@@arthurfoyt6727 you’re a centerpoint office employee
You’re not fooling anybody
@@arthurfoyt6727and? It's still unacceptable how long it took.
@@troybaxter You're nuts. Did you see how vast the area of destruction was? Taking a week to remove trees, raise new lines, test, and then power back up in an area of 200 square miles TAKES TIME.
@@food1upper898 Nope, but I was out there giving line crews in my neighborhood bottles of water as they worked.
Things better change BIG TIME if not Houston can be labeled a big toilet cause that’s how it feels right now!
Blame your good governor abbott that you all voted back in office
center point charges every account a lot of money for grid maintenance, guess what? they don't maintain the grid
That hilarious how this law firm is acting heroic for going after $80 per plaintiff while standing to make millions. They should lose as much as Centerpoint.
Can you imagine if we were hit with a Cat 3 - 5?
Your insurance will compensate you for spoiled food. You live in a hurricane prone area so with that it is you who should be prepared for disasters. If you do not like flooding or power outages then leave hurricane prone areas. I have lived all of my life in hurricane prone areas and we prepare for disasters so our food does not spoil, we are not hot from air being off etc. It is your responsibility to be prepared NOT the power company. If trees are the root cause of all of the power outage impacts then petition all of your politicians to pass a law preventing trees within 100ft of power lines. Common sense shows 99% of the power outages are related to trees falling on power lines so remove the trees away from power lines or make the power companies put power underground and future storms wont cause that much of an impact
i thought thats what the state of texas was most proud about, having the cheapest power grid anywhere, who cares if it actually worked?
Also the lawyers make the most $$ from class action lawsuits so yes the lawyers will be quick to file a class action lawsuit as long as they have enough dummies willing to be on that lawsuit
Put some smart knowledgeable people in a room. 1. Determine what it cost for 50,70% of the grid to be able to stay up when a category one storm passes over the area. Pass that on to the elected officials and let them determine if the work should be completed and cost picked up by? ( 80% of the grid failed this time)
Center point support pay all their customer food spoil because of bad planning
Power poles have been leaning at 15 degrees for 20 years,, some with transformers on them!!!😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂of course they do. DEREGULATED COMPANY.
Easy fix. New Governor.
As a Houstonian who experienced the outage... The PTSD of checking the weather daily and fearing rain is real. Most of us FEAR another Ike or Harvey if Beryl did this as a Cat 1.
Whew that's some rough PTSD. Forget dodging IEDs in Iraq, what you went through is scary!
@@helloidharbl6753Apples and Oranges, but are both fruits. ❤
Got a lot of centerpoint bots in here 🤔
Less bots, more corporate shills. There will always be people that shill for these corporations, and will find any means necessary to justify a company's ineptitude.
@@troybaxter i dont disagree some idiots just let to disagree to be contrary they dont have a logical argument
Our Republican run state supports company profits over human concerns. Greed is one of the biggest enemies of Americans across our country.
Are not Abbott/Patrick connected to CenterPoint?
I agree with everybody Centerpoint has to go
Add me to the suit, they gon fry bruh
Seems like more guns would solve this. Did you consider adding more guns tejus?
I think they need some more freedumb too
I need my money for my food
This is what happens when you do not regulate!!!! Vote blue
Vote for Abbot.
Texas gets the situation they deserve.
Figures!
The Texas power grid appears infrastructure weak placing great expense on home grown sources of energy such as Texas natural gas and wind turbines over high durability, reliability and minimal electricity rates. These are vastly more expensive than new ultra super critical clean coal power plants burning high BTU coal, but Texas doesn't have high BTU coal.
The most troublesome power grids are in Southern California because not only are they unreliable they actually start fires with their outdated high voltage transmission lines sparking during high winds with under controlled flammable undergrowth. Most of those SoCa power grids are in bankruptcy or fear it. They also have the most expensive electricity in the USA even higher than Hawaii in the case of San Diego CA.
Nuclear power has been expected since the 1950s to take over power generation with cheapest form of electricity, but the high expense and large evacuation zones for the current form of high pressure water reactors and little demand for new power plants has greatly curtailed new builds.
We want Elon in charge of our grid
🙄 wrong this issue starts with u guys, transferring blame smh u guys have the power and authority not cp to control who going to support us, if they can’t handle this big load with us, move em on im sure someone wants some Texas gold.
I thought God loved us and all-knowing. They told me to pray.
Deregulation people yeah lol this why some things shouldn’t be deregulated and must be held up to highest standards
but coal fireplantwere suppose be way go!
Centerpointless
Unwinnable lawsuit.
You LIVE in Texas.
It's MAGA Paradise.
Be grateful!
You are a true dimwit.
I know you fantasize about Trump. Look at you. This is about an incompetent power company and you are over there jerking off, thinking of Trump.
Trump in your head rent free.
This is about an ineffective power company and you're over here jerking off to a picture of Trump.
Get a grip.
The only area in the whole State that has these systemic issues is the Houston metropolitan area. Texas is vast like a country and not once in 47 years did I experience a flood in central Texas, nor have I ever experienced a power outage. The Houston area is a corrupt Democrat controlled area. You people act like Houston is representative of the whole State. Interesting, u mentioned “MAGA” when ironically the conservative areas in central, north, and West don’t have these problems.
@@SwaggerLikeUz
Consider yourself LUCKY!
I have friends and family all over Texas (not Houston thankfully) that I drive to visit.
I know better!
The foods EXCELLENT though!!
16 billion 😅of profit last year 😂
Ever since the deep freeze we had a couple years ago my power goes out if the weather farts. Hours with out power because of a small storm is insane. A sever thunder storm? Could be 2 or 3 days. Hurricane? 5 or more. Its unacceptable! I have lost everything in my fridge and freezer 3 times in the last 4 months. I can't keep this up :(
Get a generator for heaven's sake.
We lost city power for 6 days but our battery system kept everything going till the damage was repaired.
People have to understand centerpoint is legit the only one fixing the power lines and that ofc it’s gonna take at least a week with a hurricane that had 100+ mph winds
80mph winds 😒
Dude other cities don't take a week, they take a day.
I understand where you come from but we have data indicating centerpoint has spent 1/4 the amount cutting trees that other power companies do.
They used to cut the trees down the middle of each Street on a regular basis. They don't do that anymore. Now we have trees growing around the power lines. There are trees in my neighborhood with power lines passing through the middle of the trees.
After the wind storm in may, they had a good warning that the trees were going to be a problem and they still did nothing.
Yes it was a hurricane with gusts over 100 miles an hour but they haven't been doing their job. And one of their executives said there was nothing they could do when clearly there are things they can do that other power companies do.
Wrong answer 😱
Only the lawyers will make most of the money 😢😢😢
If we had zero point energy machines we wouldn’t need power lines that a faulty.