Archive for July 2024

As of this morning, there are still a little over 53,000 CenterPoint customers in the H-Town area without power. I still feel for all of them. I was watching the KPRC Channel 2 News this morning. The weather forecast for later this week and weekend calls for more rain. I don’t know about you, but if…

As of this morning, there are still close to 129,000 customers in the H-Town area without power. I feel for all of them.  The featured photo is the headline of today’s Chron E-Board editorial. When the state of Texas passes GOP sponsored legislation that limits the power of local governments, then the GOP owns what…

Commentary finally got power back late Saturday afternoon. That is close to five and a half days without power. That is like four and half days too long.  As of yesterday, err Sunday morning, CenterPoint still had me on the assessment list. Sigh. Gov. Greg Abbott came to H-Town yesterday, six days after the storm…

Commentary is entering Day 5 without power. This isn’t fun. It’s hard. Yesterday, a McDonald’s reopened down the street and the drive through line was a couple of blocks long. I guess for some folks it is worth the wait. Here is from the Chron: A total of 1,096,938 customers were still without power as…

Commentary is still without power. Today is trash pick-up day, so it was a good day to empty the refrigerator. Sigh. I am now down to a few cold cuts and a couple of cans of tuna, then I will have to rely on restaurants. I guess that comes with being the part of the…

Yesterday, I was at my nephew’s. He had power and internet. About 1 pm, I received a text and email from CenterPoint letting me know that power was restored to my place. I came home about an hour later with no power. I asked a couple of my neighbors if they had received the CenterPoint…

Sorry for the delay. I am still without power. CenterPoint sent me this last night: This afternoon (Monda) CenterPoint Energy mobilized its internal and mutual assistance crews to begin the restoration process to the total 2.265 million customers that lost power during Hurricane Beryl today. Based on current progress with damage assessment and initial restoration,…

My power is out – again. That’s about a half dozen times over the past 90 days. This is getting ridiculous. Commentary is talking about losing power after a hurricane or storm hits. CenterPoint is the least reliable H-Town company during times like these. We need to make an investment to strengthen the local grid.…

Commentary has to give H-Town Mayor John Whitmire a bit of credit for getting the City of H-Town Solid Waste Management Department off its arse.  I put out some heavy trash a couple of weeks ago and it was picked up on a timely basis.  Recycling is pretty much picked up on schedule these days.…

America is 248 years-old today and struggling a bit these days. We have to find our footing, don’t you think. _____ When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the…