Official Houston thread that isn't on the Texas Board

Go find a bar with a/c

 

I’m going assault the centerpoint ceo idgaf at this point

 

Sure his house has a/c. After the assault kick your feet up and stay a while.

 

He has a generator because he knows his company is dogshit

 

There isn’t a jury in Houston that would convict someone for beating his ass

 

Never a doubt

 

Theee shades of green is fucking impressive

 

Honestly I kind of respect having three shades of green where one says you’re Gucci, one says you’ll be good tomorrow and one says go fuck yourself and it’s hard to tell which is which

 

By far best part of the map is someone is using MS paint to update it

 

A new map!

 

Wear a random under armor polo so you like like an average dude

Shit we forgot to tell him to take off the white gold daytona and change the thermostat

 

Wonder if we will ever be able to live in our house again

 

Squatters have taken over. It’s no longer yours.

 

Ok so I got someone on the phone at centerpoint and basically we are fucked

There are 27 people without power on our “ticket” that has been assigned to a truck

However we are considered stage 5 because it is less than 100 people out at our ticket

They’re currently working on stage 4s right now and won’t get to us until the stage 4s are done

I asked for some sort of timeline and she was like I can’t give you one but once it shows on the website that we are working on stage 5s call back and ask where your ticket is

awesome

 

Sick everyone has power in my neighborhood except for my street

 

Bummer. Brutal what they've put people through this week.

 

And officially entering day 8 letsgoo

 

Damn dude

 

as someone that has experienced lengthy power outages due to hurricanes. This is pretty comical and if this were to happen in Florida, Ron would have been strung up for being this incompetent

 

Our governor spent the last week in Asia in 5 star hotels he literally could not care less

 

He pulled a Theodore and went and fucked ladyboys on the taxpayers dime while people were dying of heat stroke?

 

Indeed. And the lieutenant governor waited until 48 hours after the storm hit to request federal aid

 

y'all are allowed to use Federal aid? I thought y'all were independent in Tejas

 

What area do you live, and is it a townhome or something?

 

montrose and yeah a townhome off waugh

 

this is hilarious in retrospect

at this point i'm hoping to be back in my house by the start of football season

 

Your #Rice Owls will be ready. With power at the stadium.

 

called centerpoint and their now estimate is by the end of the day today. not going to tell my wife because i *really* dont want to deal with the fallout from her if that doesnt happen

 

Smart man!!

 

My crib is now surrounded by utilities trucks. Should have power this week!

 

Jealous

 

I think the regulators/PUC deserve a lot of the negative attention that is currently being directed at CNP… most of the things people are complaining about are items utilities like CNP ask regulators for approval on frequently and are almost always rejected.

 

I’m happy to blame a lot of people

 

The oversimplified truth is that for better or worse, we have a regulated monopoly system in place. Since the utility has a monopoly, they will spend as much as the regulators will approve.

Regulators in the industry are painfully resistant to change, and stuck in the past. Most of them started their careers when the industry was poles and wires and climate change was a hoax, most still operate under that way of thinking.

decades of doing the bare minimum to keep costs for consumers low, essentially just pushed the risk onto the next generation and has gotten us to today.

complaining about cnp won’t do much, cause it’s not like you can switch utilities and the PUC is appointed by the governor….

 

i think we all know that absolutely nothing will change and the next time houston is hit by a hurricane we will be in this exact situation and probably worse

 

Fair, I’ll just say the CNP folks are probably not the bad guys being painted here. There are bad guys but they are very good at staying out of the spotlight.

 

i'm still going to take a shit on jason wells porch

 

and i just called in again and now the estimated date is friday. glad i didn't tell my wife

 

i think i might move

 

You and I are literal neighbors. I’m off westheimer and Waugh and got power back on Thursday. Move a few blocks over imo.

 

i'm thinking chicago or london

 

Save yourself the headache, they don’t have the tools to give you an accurate ETR.

 

their website says 98% by Wednesday and 100% by friday

if we are not back by saturday i'm probably going to be getting arrested for something

 

while wearing a $40,000 watch

 

A Florida grad is an out of touch psycho? I’m shocked.

 

H

just learn to become a lineman and restore your own power