Houston residents express ANGER at Houston City Hall over Hurricane Beryl
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
- It's been eight days since Hurricane Beryl slammed southeast Texas and weary residents expressed their frustrations at Houston City Hall. FOX 26's Greg Groogan has a look at the anger felt by those in the city.
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Our property tax bills have skyrocketed in the past few years, they need to invest that money in our infrastructure!
$25,000,000 I guarantee you the artists are not getting that fee.
That is basically most government programs! Some money in the politicians pockets, some money in their friends pocket, and some in the actual work it was designated for.
That much for art seems like about $24,988,000 too much!
I've seen some nice paintings and framed pieces at many a yard sale for a couple bucks each!!
😁
It attracts visitors
@@Epicfunk Look at the clown Bill King sucking up to his masters at Centerpoint 🤣🤣 Hey Bill fixing the vegetation around power lines is part of fixing the infrastructure you tool
@@AnyM4jorDude update: the city slashed it to $15M and it’s over the course of 5 years smh
MY POWERS STILL OUT. HELLOOOOOOO?!?!?!?!?
Time to stop voting Democrat, maybe?
@@joeradler state not city politics but good try
@@joeradlerwhat an imbecile comment.
Dam
@@Pj287. BS, this is all Harris County and Lina Hidalgo's mess. LT Gov. Patrick called her and offered her assistance many times and she refused to even return his call. Its on HER and Harris County.
Got power after 7 days.... worse than the winter storm. So I really don't know what they have "improved" since the last several times the grid has failed 😅
So, you're talking about 16 years since the last catastrophic storm hit. It looks like the trees and vegetation around wires, poles and transformers have continued to grow with no trimming or maintenance. How sad that is, and illegal for CenterPoint...
My father, a veteran, passed away, and the nursing home informed me when it was already dark and without power in May 2024. We couldn’t have a proper funeral and had to go straight to the National Cemetery. We were without lights for seven days, and now my business is closed because of the power outage from Beryl and the home.
I can't live in my home because of the damage from Hurricane Harvey, The house is about to collapse, and the court keeps changing the date, leaving us in limbo for over two years.
DFW resident here. I think that by now many of you Houstonians have reached the breaking point and are preparing to move to Dallas or San Antonio. I certainly don't blame you for doing so. Years ago, I wanted to move to Houston and now I'm so glad I never did. Prayers go out to y'all in Houston. Stay strong; you'll get through this.
No we aren’t moving there 🙄
Only the upper class areas are decent, most of the city is ugly and ghetto
Never going to South Oklahoma !!!
@@chrisgonzalez2340never! Ever! 😂
houston is #3 still for people moving to.
I’ve been here in Houston less than 2 years and my power goes out constantly. For 4 days after the tornadoes from Alberto and 3 days after Beryl. Suffocating heat. I’m done here.
Two times is constantly?
yes texas heat is no joke 🥵
@@watermelonsprite1497 Look at the clown Bill King sucking up to his masters at Centerpoint 🤣🤣 Hey Bill fixing the vegetation around power lines is part of fixing the infrastructure you tool
Sounds like you might be from NY or CA. Welcome to reality in the south and flyovers. Severe weather hits more than where you came from. Might want to go back.
Absolutely ridiculous!
Houston people need a reality check.
HLP back in the day maintained the tress and vegetation along the power lines, why can't Centerpoint do the same?
Wow...the three councilwomen they showed weren't really paying attention. They don't care!
Too much BS and politicking!
DEMOCRATS are 100% in charge. Democrat voters are 100% to blame.
I was without power for 3 weeks in the 80s after a hurricane…
Love how only one of the three city councilpersons I could see bothered to pay attention 😮
They should be arrested
Where are all the taxable money? Government needs to be investigated.
Bring back HL&P and Entex and get rid of Centerpointless. At least it was local.
Please VOTE! The Governor's office has a lot to do with this. Privatized companies and contacted businesses that have not done the jobs they've been paid to do. Keeping trees groomed. Not to mention the Texas power grid. This will only get worse.
Thanks Abbot
people don’t move to houston due to bigger homes , if there is no electricity u have to spend money , if the winter comes another disaster..
Welfare of the people, it’s stated within the U.S. Constitution.
Wow time for Abbott to resign!
That's not Abbott's fault
It's the city of Houston spending money on Art, not Abbott.
@@princezzlily7700it's both
Center point took over 55 million
😂😂 you don’t know how state and local government work huh
Thanks Abbot!
Im still in the dark and im frustrated and im hot and. I Need help! I am down and out physically emotionally and spiritually ! Our government has failed us. I try not to complain because there are Houstonians that are worse off than I am . Help them please we are desperate !! 😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔
They look like they were really listening. lol
Unacceptable
We all know nothing will happen
Right. It won't. Centerpointless bought "the government" in this state. Abbott and his thugs work for them, not us.
Several stop lights have power but have not been programmed. Where is Houston Public Works? They are usually up on trucks fixing these. Is the city out of money to pay them?
I don't know if this is anything to do with the city being out of money. But in Lake Jackson. I was told that it's been said that the reason why the machines they used to clean up the debris like the fallen trees took a bit longer because their company was said to be out of funds and they had to dip into funds from elsewhere in order to finally get the clean-up done when they use the machines to clean up and take care of the fallen trees and more. I don't know if that was related to the question you asked but it was probably because there was more work to be done and they were running out of funds.
Center point doesn't even accept or return calls of trees I've asked to be trimmed years ago
It's the state government that's the problem, not the city government.
sure... it is... you just want to blame people you dislike. bet you voted beto
Why didn't Centerpoint learn from the Wind Storm before Beryl 7 days without lights?
Joel Osteen mansion has Power ⚡
Get off him bruh. He has nothing to do with this.
Where is Ted Cruz or Greg Abbott???
Wow, I didn't realize those were the only politicians in the state.
They are making sure president trump don’t get injured again
Notice GramMa and the other attentive City Council members,,, NOT
too much overtaxing is going on
The State of Texas could reduce flooding in the Houston area if the local government was to buy up land along the San Bernard river, repurpose the land as a swamp flood plain, then build a pipeline + pumping system to pump flood waters to that river.
No power, no power bill. There’s always an upside.
You'll still be charged. DEMOCRATS will just raise your property taxes or your rent soon.
@@joeradlerIt’s not democrats in charge here, genius.
Oh, we’ll still get a bill and it better be paid on time.
@@janicetribbiani7535 it most certainly IS DEMOCRATS ... this is Harris County and Judge Lina Hidalgo mess top to bottom.
Don't mess with Texas -- they don't even have lights! 🤣🤣
When you are out of juice the heat can make you very angry
Gov. Abbott says, “I’m just now realizing Houston is too close to the Gulf.”
his eyes bad too?
So why do they put power wires drafted by heavy trees.
Disgusting My light company would never swepco that is.
The storms are less threatening than post storms.... Center point is a bigger that than the storms
Look at the clown Bill King sucking up to his masters at Centerpoint 🤣🤣 Hey Bill fixing the vegetation around power lines is part of fixing the infrastructure you tool
I agree essentels before luxuries.
Mobile, AL here; when Hurricane Frederic came straight up Mobile Bay in 1979, Mobile and Baldwin county was devastated. Trees will fall on power lines that’s just the way it is during a hurricane. I was 15 years old when this disaster happened It was 3 weeks before power was restored to my parents home.
Stop threatening lineman, stop shooting lineman, stop stabbing lineman let them do their job. Support those that are trying to restore electricity.
Stop crying because of no power for 8 days give me a break!! There was a lot of Mobile residents that had no electricity for longer than 3 weeks. Alabama Power had send in a crew to cut the downed trees on my grandparents road then the lineman could move in and do their job.
Everybody’s angry about everything you gotta look at the positive side of things we’re all alive and we still have our homes
Except the people who have died because of the storm…
Greg abbot is trash
When Ike hit. Me and my mom stayed in a hotel in San Antonio for two nights but once we got home. We were without power. We were only there for two days but once we found out some family members of ours had power. We stayed at my older sister's place because she was some of the family members that had power. We tried to get fema to help us but they were no help. We stayed at my sister's place for more of less than two weeks till power to our home for me and my mom was restored. Fema only responded till three or four months after Ike was over. Now we were trying to get reimbursement check from them and they said the tenth business day is when we get it. We got approved on July 17th and the tenth business day came and went. No check, no money, dismantle fema for being of no help to anyone. Especially for how fema screwed over innocent people. Fema and the government should be brutally punished.
Andrew passed by here and it took half of South Florida with it. No water , no food , no lights, looting.I was awful.
I heard of a lot of worse things that happened when Hurricane Andrew happened. There was even another problem faced other than those list of problems but I can't tell which was worse.
The councilors weren't even listening
Soo tired of center pointless none action
This reminds me of PG&E not keeping their trees trimmed & therefore causing unnecessary fires in California. Edit: all due to big boss men filling their pockets.
Use indoor outdoor thermometer with humidity gauge to monitor the temp and humity inside so you can determine if it is getting dangerously hot inside and act to keep cool. Monitor outdoor temps to know if it is dangerously hot outside. Generally if it is hotter out than in keep windows closed. Sometimes you may need fresh air. Block sunlight from windows. Run cold water on arms or submerse arms in cold water. Use fever thermometer to monitor body temo especially when not feeling well. Monitor temps inside vehicles.
P4 = Prior preparation prevents panic.
@1:02 Not sure who this 👩🏿🦱 lady is wearing the flowery dress but she wasn’t listening to a word this lady had to say. She was eyeing to someone and said the words “look at your phone”
She looked like a white woman to me, and do you think she has any power to change anything if she is black when everyone knows that blacks in power is just tokenism. Stop blaming everyone else but yourselves when you all know who the real problem is that's right, WHITE MALES
Stop complaining or move out of the Hurricane corridor. Stop complaining and blaming pointing fingers use this as a learning experience to prepare for future disasters. Buy generators and essentials you need for disasters. Cut away trees from power lines on your property. I live on the coast (Galveston County) and we stay prepared for hurricanes. You know what Harvey was like ( flooding and rain) now you know what hurricane winds are like damage from high winds and trees tearing down electricity. You will need generators, food, ice, water, batteries, gasoline for generators. Too many people that cannot take care of themselves that are not sick or disabled.
yep no kidding they tell you all year how good the weather is until a storm hits ill take a few cold months over this crap
Why is the political editor there? Trying to make this political?
I see no problem in Texas.
Maybe because you’re gay
Maybe because you’re gay
WOWWWW WHAT A F JOKE
EXACTLY THE GOVERNOR /GOVERNMENT OF TEXAS MUST BE RESPONSIBLE, WE GIVE HIM TOO MUCH OPPORTUNITIES WE PUT HIM IN POWER MANY TIMES AND HE IS FAILING US ALL THIS TIME, THE LAST TIME WHEN THE FREEZE HE SAYS HE WAS GOING TO DO SOMETHING ,WASN'T GOING TO HAPPEN AGAIN, BUT HE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING, AND NOW HE IS BLAMING OTHERS!!?, WE DESERVE BETTER, WE MUST VOTE HIM OUT, WE ARE TIRED OF THE SAME EXCUSES!!
😂 Let me guess voting blue will solve your problem.
@@1SFOD WHO CARES WHAT COLOR SHOULD I VOTE??, SAME GUY DIDN'T DO ANY GOOD,SO ANYONE ELSE DESERVE THE CHANCE TO SHOW IF CAN DO A BETTER JOB, LIKE ANY OTHER JOB, I AM NOT MARRY WITH A PARTY"🙄
@@1SFOD Look at the clown Bill King sucking up to his masters at Centerpoint 🤣🤣 Hey Bill fixing the vegetation around power lines is part of fixing the infrastructure you tool
Same story, different storm, different city. Pointing the blame is typical. Trimming doesn’t help much when the entire tree that is taller than the pole line comes down. Traveling the country fixing these types of issues has shown me a lot, speculating is a waste, get out there and look around, I’ve seen the same thing in, Florida, Georgia, SC, NC, Virginia, Maryland, Ohio, Louisiana, Texas, and a lot of New England. Trees are the number one cause of power outages, if trees surrounding a pole line are 80’ tall, and the pole like is about 50’ tall, well simple math will add up that of those trees fall the right way they’re coming down onto the overhead lines, not just ripping the lines down but busting up poles and hardware. On another note, power companies and tree companies have a tough time finding good help anymore, especially the younger generation, they don’t want to do physical labor it seems, there’s a few hidden gems out there, but in my experience most power companies are understaffed big time, that’s why there’s traveling line crews like mine. This time of year we go all over the damn place assisting other power companies. Also, most of the trees are on private property, so simply trimming them is all that can be done by law. Do yourself a favor, if you live on property that has massive trees near the powerlines then please look into getting them removed, get a quote from a few companies, see how cheap and easy it really is… if you can afford to get the trees removed then do it. The hopes and prayers of undergrounding everything ain’t gonna happen so move on from that and please be proactive to assist in the next major storm event. Have a blessed day.
That's horse manure my guy. Everything you just said is boomer talk. Blaming younger generation. The company don't want to hire cause it cuts into profits plain and simple. Center point told the city council it would not do the work becuase they don't want to approved the price hike.
@@felipenunez2058ok, well I suppose you’re entitled to your opinion, I’m actually a millennial, but to answer back, you definitely sound like a “Zoomer” blaming the older generations for blaming the younger generations lol. I’ll just say this, you can choose to battle the corporations and call on the government to hold them accountable, or you can choose to realize the government ain’t gonna save you, and the corporations ain’t gonna be held accountable, nothing with them is gonna change. The best you can do is prepare yourself and take responsibility for your life and well being. My perspective is different than yours, I acknowledge that corporations do people wrong, but I know crying out for accountability ain’t gonna get us far, they’ll pay some fines, the government will thump their chests, and the same saga will continue. My life has been shaped by my chosen profession, Serving the ungrateful, led by the unknowing. I say to be prepared out of concern for my fellow citizen, and human decency, complain all you’d like, next storm will be the same outcome.
You Houstoners should be use to this. Dont it flood every time it rains.
Well. Starting cutting down trees and watch the people complain.
Moving..
Did she say the arts? Lmao funny she thinks that’s where all the money went
Perhaps Texas citizens will stop voting against their own best interests. Hard to feel sorry for you when you only have yourself to blame.
You have to be more specific otherwise they won't understand you mean DEMOCRATS RUIN PEOPLE'S LIVES. STOP VOTING FOR DEMOCRATS IF YOU WANT TO ENJOY YOUR LIFE!!
dont need brains to vote
Houston has had a flooding promblem for decades. Do better houstonians by holding city officals accountable
exactly. no reason for anyone being without electricity. the arts could be actors or painters or art schools! None of the cities are usung tax dollars for infrastructure but using funds to line their pockets or over employed workers or department heads!!! th3y can not keep roads up til in severe need and until bad condition they are in. Its all ridiculous. no oversight of budgets. we are talking trillions of dollars gine where? then uf they dexide anything needs done and made madatory they get a bond or loan and then make the people pay it back or call for a new tax. so wrong
I say you have two options invest in a generator for your home or move to a different state.
Getting mad at city Counsil for mother nature?
Chem trails are Nature?
Says the person sitting comfy in AC with food in refrigerator...
@@richardim499 hurricanes isnt chem trails.
Yes. They collect taxes so they can maintain public infrastructure. When they don't do their job they can sit and listen to people angry at them for not doing their job.
Are you stupid or just 🤡
Everything that residents said, went in one ear and out the other of these liberals
After Andrew we had others here in Florida death and destruction.
Terrible story!!! Nothing to it
Why is power so centralized?? Too many people depending on one source is strange when in the 21st century homes should be independently sourcing their energy from Solar energy, wind water etc. The energy from this storm could have been harvested also what a wasted opportunity!!
Becuase it sounds communist to me. According to republicans. I like how big republican states like to talk about California's policy's. California new policy for new home developments is they must have solar panels in order to be approved. My cousin has solar in his roof he said he has minimal electric bill and no power outages.
Wow are you delusional! Solar CAUSED THIS AND THE WINTER BLACKOUT. Texas was fine until loony left moved in with their delusional notions that what only works back home in CA would work everywhere WHEN IT DOESN'T.
God is judging the world and the US.
his wrath is growing
Whatever
@@FroblackistaniYou say that now. Give it some time. You’ll start second guessing yourself 👌🏽
I mean you don’t have to go after the arts 😕
Why havent they learned lines should be underground?
Just call David E. Taylor, he talks directly to god and can fix these type of things.
Texas voted trump 😂😂😂😂
Literally has nothing to do with Beryl.
🐊🐊💧💧
well if everyone bought ev's and stopped being racist this would not be happening!
racist evs?
@@mike_w-tw6jd correcto