Thousands remain without power in Texas a week after Hurricane Beryl

All but 130,000 CenterPoint power customers impacted by Hurricane Beryl have had their power restored a week after the storm.
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[@denisecaccese830]

BLAME ULTIMATELY GOES ON GREG ABBOTT! HE'S IN CHARGE FOR MAKING SURE HIS STATE IS READY FOR SUCH A DISASTER. HE FAILED!!!!!!!!!!

[@anakatrien2463]

My prayers are with you 🙏❤

[@alisagonzalez4054]

Day 9 without power ! 😮

[@rickg2706]

That’s insane. Don’t know what to believe. 10 house on my side have power the other 8 across from dont

[@BarrierIsland]

The liability here is CenterPoint did no tree trimming for years. This has been an unfortunate wake up call for routine maintenance of tree trimming and replacement of old poles, wires, and transformers. People have needlessly suffered and died due to their negligence...

[@RupertLaLageIV]

There have long been problems with the trees in many wooded subdivisions. In the late1960s-90s, HL&P (Houston Lighting and Power) had a service whereby they would trim the trees getting up into the power lines. Since Reliant Energy, via Centerpoint, took over, they apparently do not have this service, and they won't even cut vines wrapped around poles, power, or phone lines--even when asked to do so. Today, when a vine in the neighbor's yard was wrapped around both power and phone lines and was so heavy that it bowed both the power and telephone lines down during Beryl's winds, my uncle asked them to cut it as he could not get access to it, and the "nest" as he called it, was almost to the top of the pole. They ignored this request while they were up in their crane baskets, so I had to climb a ladder to reach over the seven foot fence top to cut the vines from this side, leaving still the inaccessible vines/nest at the top. This chore was something my uncle had asked the neighbor repeatedly to do on several occasions before storms. Whether the power company does this tree/vine trimming or not, it should at least be noticed by community leaders, and tree trimming services contacted, if it is not safe for homeowners to do any trimming themselves. Our little city's tax dollars should have gone for this instead of frou-frou monuments, old-timey signs pointing to the stadium and city hall, or trees/bushes planted in the medians obstructing view at corners and in turnarounds, and rude, impatient city hall/city services personnel. My uncle's power is knocked out because heavy oak branches fell onto the power lines from the property across the street, and a tall pine tree two doors down fell, taking out the telephone and power lines on that side. My uncle does not have any trees in his yards--not since Hurricane Carla in 1961 uprooted a 40 ft. pine tree, causing it to fall onto his home, splitting it in half. There are other issues such as the rotten, fifty-plus year old telephone poles which are riddled with spike holes, and have endured many a storm, and the poles/connectors leading from the pole to the house, right above the junction boxes. These were supposed to have been removed by Centerpoint when they took over from HL&P as 'upgrades', and inspected after Hurricane Ike, but were not. In 2015, power surges nearly burned my uncle's house down, and he lost many appliances. An independent electrical company came out and told him that they could not do anything to the junction box, or even inspect the interior outlets until Centerpoint came out and fixed those issues; the repairman ended up calling them, himself, because after five days worth of us calling, they still had not responded! On the seventh day (a miracle!) they came out with the crane buckets and made the up to code repairs; the lineman shook his head and told my uncle to put in a claim with Centerpoint, which he did.

[@stischer47]

Ah yes, under Abbott, Texas freezes in the winter and swelters in the summer. Way to go, guv!

[@ProblemChild-xk7ix]

He needs to do a much better job of controlling the weather!