Estrella Jalisco
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 it is a hard rain, I feel that some of us will lose power thanks to CenterPoint’s fragile grid. That is the H-Town area we live in these days. Next time I see a hurricane developing out in the Atlantic with a chance of heading toward the Gulf, I am going to start consuming the goods in my refrigerator and freezer, even if it is ice cream for breakfast, just saying.
On a related note, this is certainly baffling. See this from the Chron:
Over the last three years, CenterPoint Energy – the company in charge of delivering power to millions of customers in the Houston region – has spent $800 million on 20 massive generators. The hefty price tag was controversial at the time, but state regulators approved it because CenterPoint claimed the generators would keep the lights on during an extended power outage.
Last week, Hurricane Beryl led to massive outages in and around the nation’s fourth-largest city, leaving more than a million people in the dark for days. So, where were those generators?
It turns out that almost none of them were deployed in the wake of Hurricane Beryl, the Chronicle has found – even as some 90,000 people remained in the dark as of Tuesday afternoon.
That’s partly because even though CenterPoint has referred to the equipment as “mobile generation,” the vast majority of it is not actually that mobile. Fifteen of the generators – each with a capacity of 32 megawatts, big enough to power entire neighborhoods – take several days to assemble and cannot be moved without a special permit, which itself can take days to secure.
See the entire read: CenterPoint spent $800M on generators. Where are they post-Beryl? (houstonchronicle.com).
I guess they will be used after a nuclear attack or after an ELE, err Extinction Level Event. Wow. What a joke.
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So much for unity from the GOP. I was watching the Republican Party National Convention yesterday and election denier Kari Lake launched an attack against the media. Like I said yesterday, let’s put the gloves back on.
Former U.N. Ambassador and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is pretty much at rock bottom on the credibility list. I mean, who respects her.
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Yesterday evening, Commentary dropped by the Astros Season Ticket Holder MLB All Star Game Watch Party at The Yard. A crew from Anheuser Busch were handing out free cans of their new brew, Estrella Jalisco. See the featured photo. I tried it and it was satisfying. I also had a hot dog, slider, and Cracker Jack, compliments of the Astros.
I have said it before, I am not a fan of the new All Star Game uniforms. I am old school. I want to see Yordan in orange and blue. I want to see the pin stripes and Dodger blue. I get it. It is a merchandizing deal. I am just not buying.
We have a couple more days off than we have a weekend series in Seattle.
