CenterPoint not ready to commit to Gov. Abbot’s demands on tree maintenance

Last weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott called on CenterPoint to make changes moving forward to avoid what happened in the wake of Hurricane Beryl.

[@marybourgeois5235]

This has been my family home for 67 yrs in Pasadena. Tree companies use to come every 2 years just to check. THOSE CARING DAYS ARE LONGGGGG GONE!!!!

[@dannyboy3980]

CenterPoints current logic: ”the tree growing from your yard, is your responsibility to trim” Common sense logic: CenterPoint is the caretaker of the power line and power pole…if a tree branch grows into that pole or line regardless of where it’s coming from, they must defend it and maintain it, unconditionally. CenterPoint has the resources to handle this issue before waiting for John Doe to take care of it.

[@dxtesen8380]

Centerpointless

[@bruh_hahaha]

the local governments need to subsidize tree maintenance as well! Our property taxes have ballooned like crazy in the last few years, where’s all that money going to?!?!

[@KRIAJK]

It was going to their pockets until Whitmire came in and called all of the corruption out. Dozens of "City Projects" with budgets that never happened but the money was never reallocated. Gotta love greed in government.

[@philliphall5198]

CEO pockets

[@geraldineoostdyk183]

Your schools 😂😂

[@dagnt8145]

lawyers

[@annettesamuel7348]

Please no more government

[@andyerca]

Governor Abbott should have Entergy trim trees too! I have had no help in the past with a tree rubbing on the powerline from Entergy and tree trimming companies wouldn't touch it. Then the tree knocked out power to my whole neighborhood for almost two days. They only ACT when it becomes a PROBLEM!!!!!!!!

[@jesusgarza2911]

I agree when you call they never show and if they do so they always have excuses useless people that they send.

[@chris76-01]

Everybody is a crybaby that doesn't want to do any real work. They just want to drive around in their fancy always clean new trucks and just play on the computer/tablet all day😂

[@RayTuttle-of5qd]

Then center point needs to take their toys and go home! Stop making excuses and do your Fing job

[@eddiefniii]

Did they plant the trees? Nope. They didn’t plant one single tree. Blame homeowners /HOAs/landscapers for planting trees directly under power lines! By me. 10 new townhouses. They planted an oak 4 feet from transformer. Why should center point trim those trees when idiots planted them 2 years ago! Do you mow your neighbors yard 5 blocks away?

[@PatrickBaptist]

I hope center point just packs it up and gets out of business, tired of hearing people b1tch.

[@PatrickBaptist]

@@eddiefniii For real, texans are so damn entitled, it's no wonder why civil unrest is thriving down there, just mostly racist animals fighting with each other... Why ain't trumpkin saved them yet?

[@caldillman5334]

CenterPoint should not have a choice! Abbott and his Republicans should have legislated the infrastructure laws to require it, and EPCOT should have the responsibility to enforce it!

[@janicetribbiani7535]

What’s Disney got to with it?

[@TriggeredWorkz]

Unfortunately, i dont think tree trimming in centerpoint right of ways wouldve prevented the vast majority of lime damage from Beryl. Most of the Damage in Lake Jackson area were from large tree actually falling on the line and the trees werent very close to the lines to have been a concern...

[@okiterukagetsu]

Abbott mentioned that they were talking about changing laws so they could come into customer property it sounds like. Not sure how I feel about it. But I think we'd all agree we want our power to stay up...

[@TriggeredWorkz]

@okiterukagetsu yea, i think unless its an extremely old tree or a rare and protected species, trees need to be cut to the right height to avoid falling or maybe cut down all together if its too much to trim frequently. Its unfortunate, but id rather have my trees cut down or a trimming schedule made over losing power for over a week again 😅

[@ER-tq9rn]

It will help.

[@donhoverson6348]

That deregulation thing is really working out for them. Private industry is so much more efficient without regulation.

[@Alps-e3h]

I’m from cali and it’s the opposite everything the government touches ballon’s to astronomical cost and same b.s service ! So same bird different wings if you get my point 🤷🏽‍♂️Ones under the public umbrella and ones under the private same results !

[@southtxblues]

High enough hurricane winds can carry a tree or parts of it a block away or farther. In 1970, a single 20 ft long beam from a roof a block away ended up in our back yard from a hurricane. Trees and/or their parts catch much more wind than a 2x10 wood beam. They would have to remove ALL trees to be sure.

[@brianlain4164]

This is why monopolies were not supposed to be legal in this country

[@BlaineSupernatural]

At this point. Centerpoint needs to change their name to Centerexcuses.

[@PenelopePitstop0078]

I was so distressed, red faced, shaking, soaked with sweat and near collapse & straight up cuckoo ~ b/c I have a thyroid issue that makes extended high heat and humidity intolerable ~ that the apartment manager kept trying to call for an ambulance. No one could get a call through. And, many of us, if not most, lost hard earned money we spent on meat & fish, etc. I’ll have to spend $300 - 400 to replace my loss. Anyone who criticizes this REALITY is part of the overall problem.

[@jimaugie4993]

There are already laws on the books. "If the tree is on your property, outside of an easement, its your responsibility to remove it or trim it". Quit being such spoiled, cheap snowflakes and trim your own damn trees.

[@svenhans662]

Not in the easement

[@plcmts17]

You must be the ceo of centerpointless or their spokesman. And irregardless of these laws on the books that you conveniently didn't name or elaborate on, local officials and centerpointless themselves discourage customers from trimming branches or cutting trees next to active power lines. I know you can't understand the potential danger in having non professionals work anywhere close to an active power line, but judging from your ignorant comment, you probably think everyone is licensed to work around powerlines

[@MrFadelicious]

CENTERPOINTLE$$

[@michelekinsley6814]

These companies have no more respect for Abbott than they do to their customers.

[@MatrixRanger979]

Zeropoint Energy.

[@lyndaferguson816]

If the tree is on a homeowners property it should be their responsibility to maintain their trees, and keep them off of Center Points power lines. I live in rural East Texas, and they are keep the trees along the power lines trimmed.

[@KRIAJK]

Well you live in rural so you wouldn't understand. A majority of the powerline mileage are in our backyards not over on the side of the street. It's supposed to be, If the tree is touching the main lines, not the one going from the pole to your house but the ones in between the poles then they are legally responsible for the removal of them. They haven't been doing that for years and finally the neglect is catching up to them and now they're going to pay an extravagant amount of money to do so or risk losing more than half of their business.

[@Direct.injection212]

The power companies do not want to fix this too quickly since hurricane season is not over yet

[@robertocontreras4006]

I’m glad they are finally getting called out. Center point is horrible.

[@PatrickBaptist]

Hopefully they will just leave that mess and let another company deal with it.

[@robertocontreras4006]

@@PatrickBaptist I agree center point shouldn’t be the main provider for Houston no more.

[@PatrickBaptist]

@@robertocontreras4006 Yeah they should just leave out of that area and let the people figure it out on their own, let some other power company with another name come in there and give them a worse time than the last company lol

[@robertocontreras4006]

@@PatrickBaptist did I hurt you’re feelings ?

[@PatrickBaptist]

@@robertocontreras4006 No, I was pretty much being serious, centerpoint should just leave, texans hate them so just leave the market and leave them to their own problems. From what I know centerpoint didn't plant the tress, the liability for the trees should be on the property owner not the utility. It's not personally buddy and I don't live in TX and never will so I got no feelings in the matter since I'm unaffected and my AC is keeping me nice and cool :-) If I was in 95+ degree weather without an AC I'm sure I'd be fussy about anything lol. But for real the people HATE centerpoint, centerpoint should just leave them to their problems, it would be good for them to wake up and not feel so entitled once they need to beg some other utility to come service them, I'm sure companies would just love to take on this mess lol. I don't like any corp but what got me bias against texans was the shooting at workers and how they blame centerpoint for anything they can, as a phone jockey that answers callers calling their car insurance I've had my fill of entitled people that demand the world and don't want to pay for it. I really feel sorry for the people stuck working and interacting with centerpoint customers it has to be a living nightmare beyond anything I've had to fool with as a phone jockey for the last decade, half that as a supervisor, I get sick of listening to people cry and be unreasonable is all. As a bill payer I wouldn't want to be on the recv end of cetnerpoint bills, the cost of all this mess will come from somewhere either in the form of direct bill or from tax handouts paid for by the tax payer indirectly, so either way the people ain't gonna like the cost of all this. The people should have been ready for this kinda thing, after that winter storm a couple of years ago people in TX should know they need a backup plan that you can't rely on the utility company to supply your very life.....

[@rossta3949]

Got to love those government funded monopolies.

[@7ch1no38]

Lmao this bs is a joke

[@rog3129]

What’s taken Abbott so long?

[@Tommy-rf9sw]

Electricity, water, and gas utilities should’ve never been under private companies, this is where the government should taken over them with any financial/data being made public to the citizens.

[@jimmyrodela1738]

What about people who lose work for two or more then one week for people who are single we can not get help and live paycheck by paycheck that not far

[@deweyabbott5310]

to much stuff made over seas, the quality is not the same as it used to be when stuff was made in america an tougher gide lines

[@johnalver]

Why is it a que and not a line 👨🏿‍🎓💀

[@IamThatiAm420]

The trees block the cell tower signals.

[@shanesobnosky4558]

Ok the center point executive gave the most political bs I ever hear

[@gclady1536]

Homeowners, it’s your responsibility to trim trees on your own property. Stop being cheap

[@eddiefniii]

CenterPoint should maintain trees they planted. Not ones in homeowners yards they planted! Or HOAs. Or landscapers. New shopping strip. Not even open. Planted 2 cypress 5 feet from transformer pole. 5 feet! Now why should center point trim those when an idiot company planted them right there!

[@ButterflyMatt]

Abbot likes to point fingers, but doesn’t do anything proactively to solve known problems. Wait for failures. Point fingers. Loser.

[@KRIAJK]

He's the governor of the entire state. He isn't the governor of just Houston. Houston has it's own problems and the fact that he's even stayed in Houston this long to help out is amazing.

[@sonptbhtx7989]

Who cares what gov. Abbott says were was he at during the storm hes a week late .