‘Go figure’: Houstonians use Whataburger’s app as outage tracker since CenterPoint’s isn’t working
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- čas přidán 8. 07. 2024
- One thing Texans are going to do -- put Whataburger to good use.
Hurricane Beryl left more than 2.2 million CenterPoint Energy customers across the Houston area without power on Monday.
ok I got the solution. We let Whataburger run the power grid. 😂
Hey that will work.
sounds delicious
🤦🏾♂️😂
It might be like the water crisis just recently in Jackson Ms., when they were all over the Governor. But they shut up when they found out who had been put in charge of the water system.
I don’t think we are allowed to talk about who was responsible for updating that grid, are we. That would be anti something, I suppose.
I would like to be in the IT meetings after them being shamed by Whataburger.
Glad someone thought of that.
Remember a month ago when a windstorm happened and hundreds of thousands lost power for days? This happens ALOT
Biden’s fault!
A strong fart could take out the grid.
@@aplaceformystuff7979please don't, I just got my power back
@@aplaceformystuff7979Farted!
@@thaneoflions975 FARTED AGAIN
Everytime someone sneezes the power goes out now a days
How?
I was 13 days without power at my house in Pearland after hurricane ike in 08 and when I talked to the crew that finally made that last connection to restore power to my neighborhood I thanked them for making the trip down to Texas all the way from Cleveland Ohio I will always remember that.
You’d think they’d learn from that.
@@anonnymous6490 Yeah learn from a fart
@@HomeByTheSeasFarted
@@Mountain_bonker SHIDSKIDDED
Public utilities should be run for the well being of the public. Not for profit of cooperations execs and shareholders. They will charge you for the air we breathe if you give them a chance. Take back our public utilities! Don't let them have our water.
THIS 👏👏👏🙌🏼 privatizing these institutions only make it so that their vested interest is the opposite of what the public needs from them, the very purpose for their existence in the first place smh
Yes, but public(political) utilities would appoint someone like Judge Hidalgo to be CEO. How would that work out?
I used to live in Lansing MI, which has public utilities. Idk a ton about how it’s run/etc, but I do know my power ran fine even when we had massive storms or tornadoes in the area, and outages got fixed quick.
now I live in southeast Michigan where DTE (like CenterPoint) owns all utilities, and their service is horrible. Last year we lost power in my area for days every time we got a bad weather, even just normal thunderstorms! and DTE (like CenterPoint) changed their outage map last year so you can’t easily see the outages anymore. And you can’t switch to a different utility provider cuz DTE (like CenterPoint) has a monopoly, so you’re just screwed.
My thoughts are with the people of Houston dealing with similar problems with CenterPoint after Beryl, the derecho earlier this year, etc, it shouldn’t be like this
It would work very well, the public could vote to replace her if ineffective. Can't do that with a CEO @@Houston123ABC
@@Houston123ABCConsidering even she was doing press conferences before CenterPoint was she would probably do a better job lol
And to top it all off there’s gonna be a bill increase (storm surcharge) after it gets restored
When a citizen is going through tough times and they miss a payment, they dont hesitate to cut your power off but when they have a tough time (for example this) they want you to "understand". They dont discount for the days you're left without power, only they can have difficulties but not us.
The Centerpoint outage tracker has been down since MAY?!?
Yes. They suck and FJB!!! They've known about this grid since the early 2000s!
@@ElizabethF2222Before anyone attacks with “Governor is Repub”
Yes that’s true, but the city of Houston has been ran by Democrats for over 40 years.
So i’m with ya. Just seeing a lot of dopes blaming Abbott when it’s negligence on the Democratic mayors of Houston at fault.
No accountability and customers generate millions for them monthly
It has .. & they just pulled up a bs map to track outages from thin air today.
Abbot never holds his friends accountable
I wish we had the better prep for this hurricane. This is what happens when you have a zero competition in a whole city.
Centerpoint is an absolute joke what will it take someone suffering a heat stroke or exhaustion centerpoint needs to be sued
They will add $5 credit to everyone account.
Just wait for rate hikes 😆 those are coming.
Y'all ain't lying
My neighbor just died of heatstroke
Homeland Security is too busy at the border processing "newcomers."
This is what happens when public utility companies are run for the interest of profit, instead of the interest of serving the people. Stay safe everyone
It's a for profit business....not a charity
@@davidbryant3532and that's why the human race isn't advancing in energy bc everything is a profit for business purposes which is a primitive mind set. Money first, humanity last. Let's not advance civilization, let's profit instead. Smh.
and those profits go to execs and shareholders, not into upgrading infrastructure
@@mike_w-tw6jd moron
The most Texas thing I’ve heard of since the ice storm
Wednesday is going to be my 3rd day without power and being hot as hell 😢
This is absolutely inexcusable. I feel for you, it happened to me during the tornado. Centerpoint needs to be sued
It was a hurricane! Lights don't just come on with a flick of a switch.
@@hirevS2K didn't they call for back up electricians all late?🤔
@@hirevS2K Entergy has restored power to the majority of its customers already.
Secret weapons for quiet wars covered by feigned incompetence.
They came and cut the line to our house so now,the people in the garage apt and we are without power for no reason,the rest of the road has power,we have video of us asking the lineman to help,but they werent out to do that is what they said...but they said they are out to help millions...why did they cut our working line anyway!!!!! They are scum!!
My power is on but I’m expecting a thousand dollar light bill. You know the people with power will end up paying for the people without just like what happened during the Houston Freeze
It really ridiculous it the 4th day and they are continuing to “plan” and not take any action!!! This is so tiring !!
If they would get with the community they have people willing to help do the labor, now we have another storm on its way,I'm sure that's why they haven't done much....if it isn't one thing it's another!
I don't even know what day it is now,but very thankful for my neighbors!!!!!!
Watching this happen after I moved out of Houston. All I can think of now is everybody’s insurance about double again. And the permanent standby generator business should start booming soon.
Exactly. After THE GREAT ICE STORM of 3(?) years ago, 4 families in my small NE Texas town, in my small neighborhood including me, ordered Bubba Generacs that are always ready. Here, we have power outages a half dozen times each year. Our electric company is SWEPCO. Just about as good as Center Point.
It took 5 months to get the generator. Demand was very high.
I live in Houston now, but I am originally from Norway. in Norway our "Centerpoint" would cut all trees and vegetation close to power lines continuously to avoid these outcomes after storms. I have noticed that this is not done here and a lot of what is happening here in Houston is because of bad infrastructure and bad contractors who do not build stuff to last.
That’s how they make money by prolonging the job/project.
And charging top dollar for it 🙄
They used to keep the trees trimmed. It's been over 4 years since I've seen it done
Trillion dollar infrastructure bill, but they can't bury the electrical lines?
Not sure how safe that is since it rains. I'm sure they'd secure it with water proof material but not sure if it's a good idea. Back generators in every home would be better though.
it got spent on surveillance
@@IAmLeePeace lots of places have underground electrical lines. The little redneck town in Louisiana where I grew up had them in the 1970's.
@@user-kx4fu3uh6q The problem with underground power lines in floodplains is that it will cost more to repair and will take even longer to fix when there's flooding.
I mean do you really understand how many steps it would take to get money for that specifically? And then actually doing it? It's easy to just leave comments like this
Where is Abbott? Where is Ted Cruz ?
Fun trip in Asia. South Korea
Idk if whataburger more accurate than I guess whataburger it is
It’s it open late?
Yeah, I’m at home with a disabled child that everything is electrical. I don’t know what I’m gonna do. This is ridiculous.
I had three feet of water in my home when hurricane Harvey hit in 2017 and that was a category five and I never lost power, category one, no power.
Center point don't care period
Still without power in Katy…
I'm confused. What about Texas' business friendly attitude or even just generally the way this state is run - would given anyone the misconception that they would or should care?
It seems to me that if you even get power back at all you should be expressing eternal gratitude.
Neither does the government of Texastan.
Neither did Sylvester, Hidalgo, and Ed Gonzales.
@@JESS1CAC west katy @99 still nothing here.
Three days without power in sugar land area
No electricity since 4am Monday here at Fuqua/Beamer/Sam parkway.
Center point is an EMBARRASSMENT
@@Airamimosano power here in Lake Jackson since Monday either and our power went out at 1am. A few hrs later I guess ya'lls power went out next.
@@IAmLeePeace What a hot mess n stress.
@@Airamimosa it is, it is.. I live in an apartment and the wind and rain was hitting our windows so hard I thought they were going break. I saw the power lines swinging so hard while trees also slammed into it. I saw electricity and heard the buzzing and I knew rhe power was going to go. Several times I saw this from my window. We didn't sleep bc of it. I went out today and saw a power line pole snapped in half where a tree broke off from the force of the wind just a few feet away landing on the power lines. Right across from where that tree and pole snapped another huge tree fall on a brand new car and the car was crushed. So, I don't know how long it'll be until we get power back on. I did see those trucks arriving into Lake Jackson when I went out. Then I saw several parked at the mall parking lot. You know, we are the largest state and we can't even upgrade our power grid. Smh
@@IAmLeePeace Same, haven't been able to sleep due to how hot it is.
We had some terrific hours seeing and hearing the hurricane's power and it's destruction as it was going by and to top it off having to deal with no sleep, loss of so much food from fridge n freezer, dealing with mosquito bites from having the doors &vwindows open, waste of so much gas driving different side of towns to find ice, little bit of food, waters etc daily because the ice last half of the day so once it's melted back on the streets to find more, it is insane and none of that should be happening if only CENTER POINT WOULD HAD ALL OF THE TRUCKS STATIONED AND READY SINCE SUNDAY OR MONDAY VERY EARLY MORNING!
We CenterPoint customers should NOT have to pay for our services since these boneheads at CenterPoint were not prepared to handle a disaster such as this! This is ridiculous!
Let's be real. A lot of the problem is we are sending money for infrastructure to other countries for their infrastructure while ours if falling apart
I wonder if "Centerpoint" supports Ukraine,but can't take care of Texas?
@@elenataylor4611 I'll bet you anything that Centerpoint has spent more money bribing Texas GQP politicians than they have sent to Ukraine.
They sure got my funds from the bank real quick
Still with out power in ALDINE ! 🥵😡🤬🤬🤬
We moved to MN. The grid here is buried underground. No outages.
The map Center Point Energy released last night has bad data. It shows energized lines where there is still no power and lines in the queue to be repaired where there is already power. I feel the Company is misleading the public, which could do further harm, all in an effort to put any information out to save face. They should pull this map and not mislead the public. What if a person uses the little bit of gas they have to get home because it appears they have power and when they get there they have no power and no way to refuel to leave again.
Does that mean it’s open 24 hours? We’re hungry over here 😂😂
Centerpoint owes everyone a generator.
all in the money, no matter who you're talking about
I'd love to hear Biden's phone call to local leaders.
They had plenty of time to station their trucks there. And you guys have experienced that winter outage before. No excuses. Our Governor in FL had trucks ready to go when hurricane Ian came through, which hit my city (Fort Myers) badly. We had trucks from all different companies help us.
i asked for someone to do a ted cruz app after that winter storm. to see how far away he is when a storm hits. the further away he is the worse the storm,
Now it’s abbott
@@scotthermmann4 where would he even need to go?
@@nochilllwill He's jet setting across Asia. He's making stops in South Korea, Taiwan and Japan. He canceled his plans to visit Thailand as they are not wheelchair accessible.
When he made a comment about his trip and the hurricane, he defended himself in the first sentence, something like "While I am in SK putting together business deals worth billions, [I am in contact with EMS about the hell on earth conditions the people in my state are experiencing...]"
Should be called Cancun Cruz 😂
A class-action lawsuit needs to be filed against CenterPoint Energy.
So this is whats going to happen... Today, Houstonians are pissed and livid because there is no power....once power is restored you guys will forget and go on about your lives just like the last freeze event. All this talk and posturing is completely worthless, just deal with it.
Exactly right. Largest pacified group of people I've ever witnessed
My lights turned on last night...now they're off again. Glad i didn't start a load of laundry. I needed time to recover.
There is a fundamental breakdown of our utility system as a whole. We should never have to go through this. Hell, I remember Hurricane Alicia in 1983- now THAT was a storm yet although the power outages were massive, it (as I remember) did not seem to be this severe. Something is up here. Needs to be fixed IMMEDIATELY.
centerpoint is still using the same equipment that was around when Alicia hit.
And then in the bill center point energy claims they can help u not pay a lot during this hot days .. and end up screwing u up where you pay more for something they had said they will help you .. 😢
Joe Biden called,....I feel better already,...
Relax. The Blue State handouts are on the way.
i wonder who he called..Abbot is traveling.
He called the county judge
He thought he was talking to Kansas when he called. He also thought it was 2020
Well, he's actually doing something, abbot is jet setting across Asia and cruz is whale watching on the west coast, so I guess what I'm trying to say is GFY or STFU, your choice.
Center Point sounds like they Sucks
If I see one extra charge on my light bill, we going to court !
Lawsuits for heat strokes and compensation for loss of all perishable food maybe?
Why not sue yourself for not being prepared...why not for being lazy and taking accountability for yourself?
@@davidbryant3532I'm guessing you have electricity or a generator and feel privileged?
@davidbryant3532 This is a natural disaster ,and many ppl can't afford generators
@elenataylor4611 a small generator cost 500.00...anyone can afford that. Do you consume alcohol...cigarettes...drugs...netflix...etc? If you can afford those things and other non essential items...you can take care of yourself. It's all about self preservation.
Why is it Americans are constantly about lawsuits? We get mini snow hurricanes every week in Maine for the winter, you don't see us suing because it's cold and the local town delivery truck was overturned on the way. Grow up Lone Star.
After Hurricane Ike, it took Centerpoint 3 weeks to get to me.
This is exactly why the ppl need more control of what we're paying for. This is happening way too often! We need battery backups in every house not gas or propane
I was just telling my daughter the samething yesterday. It should be mandatory for all apartments to have back up generators for stuff like this and the homes should be equipped with them too! This is ridiculous! The heat isn't like it use to be when I was growing up! Also, we aren't advancing in energy! We could have already had free energy and water all over the US but cooperate greed is setting us all back!
neighborhood microgrids sharing power
ESTOS POLITICOS SON UN CHISTE SALIERON A DECIR QUE ESTABAN YA PREPARADOS.POR EXPERIENCIAS ANTERIORES..CUANDO QUIERES USAR OTRAS COMPAÑIAS DE LUZ Y TE PREGUNTAN DONDE VIVEZ A NOOO HABLA CON CENTER POINT ELLOS TIENEN MONOPOLISADA O NO QUE DIGA ELLOS DAN EL SERVICIO EN TODAASSSSS ESAS ARRAS Y ES LO MISMO LUZ Y GAS
Turn the freaking lights on!!!! Now!!!!
The rich neighborhoods have power though
pays to be rich :3
The Democrats made sure all the Black and Mexican neighborhoods got power. Meanwhile they picked on white people and made them suffer! All white neighborhoods are still without power and the illegals are laughing at us! Biden even gave them free stay at luxury hotels.
What do you say about that? The Democrats are evil!
believe me that ain't true
I live in the Woodlands and we still don’t have power ( it’s been three days and counting)
This is the most Houston thing I ever seen
And houstonians just sit and take it uo the rear instead of actually doing something about it. Laziest people on the planet anymore.
No one thought it would be this bad and the high winds that destroyed trees 😢😢😢
Centerpoint needs to be held accountable for this mess
why? explain what they could do differently?
That mayor is a joke no accountability
WHAT A USELESS PLACE
No 😂 blame the city managers ! 😂 no preparation ! And now a cop died . 12 yr old died ! And now you have cartels who escape the police after getting cought !
Isn’t there a class action lawsuit here for negligence!?
No, the government of Texastan has probably made laws shielding them. It's been 3 years since that frozen fiasco and they have done nothing to fix it.
CENTERPOINTLESS
Everyone in Texas should not pay CenterPoint for the rest of month or even year....
FYI - centerpoint is losing a lot of money in lost carriage fees. I’m not saying they’re perfect. I’m just saying they’re going to feel the pinch from this financially.
Tried to call to report a power line is down near my apartment since the storm and they hang up on me every time I've called. Don't know if you can call this a service.
I got power yesterday but my AC wasn’t working I live a braeswood oaks the maintenance people came at around 4 after and was told it was cool inside !! The ac had been leaking water all over the floor!! The nerve of saying it’s cool inside 😡 I drove around and I have seen so many places without lights 😢😢I feel so sad for them I almost passed out yesterday from the heat before it came back on
Who was responsible for updating that map?
If the burger has cheese there is electricity. If no chese no electricity.
Abbott left Patrick in charge w/out leaving him an instruction manual.
Whataburger is like this is a win
Yeah they can't update the electrical grid but they sure do rise those prices for the electricity.
If this hurricane was a cat 4 we wouldn’t have power for 2 months.
So we not going to talk about How Centerpoint is going to charge thier Customers for the Tornado And the Hurricane Damages? The AUDACITY! I think its some cheap excuse to get money from us for the days we went without using energy!
Dont they have insurance for stuff like this?
Everyone els has to have insurance but them?
wheres the governor? people always want to brag about how great these gop politicians are but always overlook these power outages. oh thats right, the power companies paid him millions to shut up and let them do what they want.
@cerebrumexcrement where’s the Mayor?, where’s the city council? Where is the Federal Government? Where is the Red Cross? the church? Love the way y’all blame and then demand government handouts and outside action/interference when you’re inconvenienced. “let’s pay the Governor millions of dollars to shut up so we can do what we want “. Said no one ever….
@@sandtoy11510 Sorry greg, creating a fake account to defend yourself while you're vacationing in Asia isn't going to work. It's been three years since the devastating winter fiasco, when your buddy grandpa munster jetted off to Mexico while Texastan was frozen, and you have done nothing to make sure it never happens again. I'd say it doesn't make sense that people still vote for you but then I remember that Texastan is filled with some of the dumbest "people" on this planet.
"wheres the governor?"
He's busy being schmoozed in Asia; but he makes phone calls to people back home he said, so it's cool.
Power to the people.
Think the TX Gov and CP would take care of its ppl better. (especially when TX is known for its heat)
Center point, 311 and 911 were unavailable and busy or hangs up immediately on me… nothing works.
embarrassing
I have Entergy and we have no electricity. Btw President Biden couldn't get a hold of
Abbott he's in Asia and Cruz left and is whale watching we once again we are abandoned when we needed these useless men. We need a change. Vote 💙
Vote blue that is really a joke 😅
have you seen california? no thanks
@@cuongt3271ikr 😂
Biden cant do anything either, the only people who can do anything about this situation are the respective companies workers, just let them work, they already get enough pressure from their bosses to put up with during these situations, other people bothering them while they're trying to work is just going to slow them down, also keep your bs politics out of this, politicians cant do a thing except complain about what "needs" to be done and never actually do anything.
Vote for county judge
Good job Whataburger. They're an excellent company. 🍔🍟
So carwash has power and I still don't. Lucky car wash
Fix the damn light !
It seems like bandaids are used without adding new advanced systems. There's billions of dollars to go after under Justice 40 for smart grids/cities and more. What about hybrids energy system for alternative backup methods? Old money & power continues to do same old stuff. What if people actually started working together to build infrastructure and economy?
Relax. All the rich people have their standby generators, and are actually making a profit selling the excess back to the utility.
Non sense. You cannot sell it back. Where is your generator? Why do you not have one? Why were you not prepared? If you place your survival solely in the hands of others...you will have a short life. At some point you have to take care of yourself.
@@davidbryant3532 Not sure about generators, but if you have solar you can, its called net metering.
@@davidbryant3532If we gonna be self-reliant what do we have all these "public" servants for?
@mrsparks138 that is so very true. It would help if people would take personal responsibility rather than rely on others. A small one time investment and they would never worry about electricity. They prefer to smoke it...drink it...or waste it on non essential things
So dumb, they have 100 stores not 2 million houses
At least someone has some common sense these days.
I just made it to Fort Worth tx do anyone know were me and my boys 8 years and 15 years old we are in my truck right now it was to much
So show of hands who’s suein or filing complaint on center point or city of Houston? Bc we have to. Not even in third world countries they do this. There was no poles knocked down or power plants knocked down. I went true all of southwest memorial, stafford , bellaire 6 sugar land not one power pole knocked down. So ask y’all selfs the same. It’s all business to these ppl. Money to money and we suffer
Whataburger to the rescue.
This is good group thinking
I WILL BE DISCONNECTING FROM CENTERPOINT ,,,,
Round up a crew and move the debris out of the way so they can help you
I'm sure the stakeholders have power and AC.
Racing??? They Should have been Staged!! Shut tf up Centerpoint. You filled your pockets and left us in the lurch! In the 3rd largest Metropolitan area in the U.S.
Be. Ashamed!!!!
That didn’t work. They stayed on, nobody else or has yet in my part of sugar land
Ted Cruz wants your vote!
Houston is sad. And where's fema. Im still without power but ppl around me have power how is that possible sad
Whataburger > Centerpoint
😂
1:20 yes they could’ve. It should’ve been “we’ll decide if I get to keep my job after this”
It's a lot of DOUBLE TALK and FINGER POINTING and utter INCOMPETENTS .EVERY TIME.
Wheres your governor in all this? Doing a Ted Cruz?
Centerpoint used to be really good and prompt in these situations. They probably hired a bunch of DEI People...kind of like Boeing did.
What is ya'll's obsession with DEI? It's scary. I mean you find a way to bring it up regarding every instance when it has nothing to do with anything just so you can have someone or something to blame. Seek help for that.
@@beautifulsurprise9424Wrong. DEI has been a plague to our society. The evil you-know-whos that rhyme with Dews have infiltrated our society and is slowly, systematically replacing white culture. It has been done for a century now. They have been planting this to eradicate the white race. If you don’t see that, you’re stupid.
Oh just shut up. No one is even talking about race except you. Thanks for letting us know you're a bigot though.
I only see white males in charge.
@@beautifulsurprise9424just the facts. DEI=lazy, unqualified people over people who know what they're doing.
0:33 we know nobody on the fone and he perfected the look conveying he knowing somebody on the fone but they talking real low. He think their martians. His dementia at work😂
Move to California, Mexico, New York somewhere else