Hurricane Beryl: Anger mounts in Texas over power outages and CenterPoint Energy’s response amid crippling heat

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2. Good, I’m glad anger is being directed at the power provider. It was after all “only” a Cat 1 in a part of the country accustomed to hurricanes (even if one is a climate change denier, one cannot deny that Houston, Texas and the entire Gulf coast experiences hurricanes periodically). Presumably the utility has put profits and payouts to C-suite and shareholders above maintenance and preventing outages, taking the “fingers crossed” approach to getting away with it for another year.

3. Another failure on behalf of Republican leadership.

4. I mean, when “weak” Beryl hit Michigan and dropped 5″ per second that all came into my basement, it sucks.

   But I never lost power so there’s that.

5. Big “Leopards Ate My Face” shit right here.

6. Time to invest in residential solar + battery backup. Take your power back people.

7. Going on 4 days with no power here on the east side of Houston, in the middle of summer, haven’t seen a centerpoint truck this whole time. Still more than 1 million homes without power

8. Centerpoint is a problem, but the biggest problem in Texas is the state government. They really let Houston down. The governor is in Japan for some reason and the lieutenant governor is just an asshole

9. Massive fines for every power outage (scaled to its size and duration) is the cure.

10. Cruz will fix it

11. Still more evidence of genius in isolating Texas from the US grids to “keep dem feds outta Texas bidness”

12. Does the long term political leadership of a state have any effect on that state’s utilities capabilities, robustness, and readiness?

13. the press conference they had was so bad i pray to god they get sued into bankruptcy they control way too much of the state

14. Hey Texans, keep voting Republican, you can have much more of this. Guaranteed.

15. Why does this happen every few years when we have a hurricane and we get surprised and shocked were outta power – AGAIN ??!!! what happened to all the fed and state money Centerpoint was given last time to fix the problem ??? Some contractors are getting rich not doing a damn thing ! 
    Freeze in 2020- the governor assured the problem was getting fixed. Yet ! Here we are again !!!

16. Mother Nature Get over it

17. its not just CentralPoint, it’s the State that allow it happened!