The KHOU 11 Verify Team is learning the reason it could take weeks to repair downed transmission lines is due to the material not being instantly available.
They are bringing in crews from other utilities and contractors from across the country. Drive by Sugar Land Service Center on Saturday and the parking lot is full of employee cars. Their EOP plan takes a few days to take hold.
Hopefully, our fellow Houstonians will get back on their feet as quickly as possible. Don't depend on the government; they'll always let you down. It's going to come to grass roots efforts to get materials and resources in order to get back on track.
Those towers are very simple to build and the raw material is stacked up somewhere. No reason that cannot be replaced in a short period of time. No doubt there are complete towers ready to be assembled somewhere. Get them here and start building.
They are simple to build if you have the right materials and the program written for you multi million dollar Anglematic machine that will cut and punch all the holes. Then you need a galvanizing plant with millions on dollars of molten expensive zinc to galvanize every piece. Then you have to bundle the parts into specific bundles. Then you have to ship the steel on trucks that are limited to 40,000 pounds. This means about two trucks per tower. With all the other projects across the country you have to get in line and try to get priority over all the other much larger projects that have commitment dates six months out. Common sense say you want your towers made in America and not from China or third world county.
The utilities themselves don’t have the capability to rebuild these towers. It’s done by specialist construction companies. So take a number and get in line.
@@edbouhl3100 CenterPoint has the custom drawings for the towers and orders the steel towers, insulators, wire and other hardware. CenterPoint designs the foundations because the foundations were unearthed and orders the rebar. Contractors build the foundations and erect the towers and string the lines.
Sure would be nice to have a currency that wasn’t being devalued at the ready for stuff like this. Can’t just print money to fix everything. You have to sell bonds first. The bonds back the currency you are printing. And right now there isn’t a country in the world that would touch our debt with a 10’ electric cattle prod.
@@sebastianoviedo253 I’m sure we spend more on welfare. If I judge you by your thought process, I can guarantee I get taxed more than you. Our govt throws away and swindles more money than what is sent to Israel. 🇮🇱
I should of waited to pay my high light bill..darn
So they make millions if not billions and they don’t have backup???????? What is a monopoly? I need to stop asking questions and obey.
They are bringing in crews from other utilities and contractors from across the country. Drive by Sugar Land Service Center on Saturday and the parking lot is full of employee cars. Their EOP plan takes a few days to take hold.
People are complaining it hasn’t even been two weeks yet during Ike. We were sitting here for like 15 days without power.
This reminds me of Stephen King's The Mist movie....so frightening!
Houston can't handle weather it's official
No city was taking that storm. I’ve never seen anything like it before. It was more like a hurricane than anything else
Nothing is designed for tornados. A study of this weather event is upcoming to find out what exactly it was.
We are in war against are own weather war fair
Ugh ..,it’s our not are 😂 🤓 OUR school system failed you.., You ARE now demerited 3 points 😂
Never quote your “energy” expert again. Eiffel is turning in his grave after listening to you all’s idiocy.
Hopefully, our fellow Houstonians will get back on their feet as quickly as possible. Don't depend on the government; they'll always let you down. It's going to come to grass roots efforts to get materials and resources in order to get back on track.
Need more updated infrastructure ….. Greg
So, then come up with a temporary line while you rebuild those structures.
Its high voltage line. Not that easy to use temporary lines to manage.
@@beliveinjesusglory1326 didn't say it was easy!
They put the line on temporary wood or concrete poles that are in the EOP stockpile.
@@beliveinjesusglory1326 Louisiana has some of those same lines 17’ off the ground attached to wood poles 🤷♂️
Those towers are very simple to build and the raw material is stacked up somewhere. No reason that cannot be replaced in a short period of time. No doubt there are complete towers ready to be assembled somewhere. Get them here and start building.
They are simple to build if you have the right materials and the program written for you multi million dollar Anglematic machine that will cut and punch all the holes. Then you need a galvanizing plant with millions on dollars of molten expensive zinc to galvanize every piece. Then you have to bundle the parts into specific bundles. Then you have to ship the steel on trucks that are limited to 40,000 pounds. This means about two trucks per tower. With all the other projects across the country you have to get in line and try to get priority over all the other much larger projects that have commitment dates six months out. Common sense say you want your towers made in America and not from China or third world county.
The utilities themselves don’t have the capability to rebuild these towers. It’s done by specialist construction companies. So take a number and get in line.
@@edbouhl3100 CenterPoint has the custom drawings for the towers and orders the steel towers, insulators, wire and other hardware. CenterPoint designs the foundations because the foundations were unearthed and orders the rebar. Contractors build the foundations and erect the towers and string the lines.
Don’t forget who the taxpayers are
You pay they make the rules they write their own paycheck 😂
Sure would be nice to have a currency that wasn’t being devalued at the ready for stuff like this. Can’t just print money to fix everything. You have to sell bonds first. The bonds back the currency you are printing. And right now there isn’t a country in the world that would touch our debt with a 10’ electric cattle prod.
Mouth or two
Can we buy American steel? Oh wait, never mind.
can we send more money to Ukraine in the next infostructure bill first?
Not soon enough 😮😂😂
Don’t forget the billions every year to Israel
@@sebastianoviedo253 take dat take dat🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨
@@sebastianoviedo253 I’m sure we spend more on welfare. If I judge you by your thought process, I can guarantee I get taxed more than you. Our govt throws away and swindles more money than what is sent to Israel. 🇮🇱
This money comes out of CenterPoint’s pocket and will show up on your electric bill. Ukraine is not involved.
Hire Chinese contractors,it would take half the time.
😂don’t buy Chinese metals 😂 or make it thicker this time 😂
These storms are going to increase in frequency and severity until the imbalance in the biosphere has been corrected.