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It’s been almost a week since Hurricane Beryl slammed the Gulf Coast, leaving residents of Houston, Texas in the dark. “More than 760,000” customers remain without power. Residents blame the power company but there are crews from other states ready to help out, as soon as they get paid. The reason they aren’t being paid is because FEMA spent this year’s hurricane money processing illegal aliens at the border. It wouldn’t be so bad if they had deported a few but they tend to set the terrorists free on parole right along with the rest of the herd.
Houston hot and dark
It’s another hot, miserable night with no air conditioning for hundreds of thousands of Houston, Texas, residents. They don’t even have fans. Ice is only a dream because the fridge is out. You can imagine the things they’re saying about Alejandro Mayorkas and they aren’t nice. The heat is brutal. Many “are scrambling to find cool shelters, food, safe drinking water and health care resources.” The Department of Homeland Security runs FEMA.
The problem is they also run the border patrol and shifted all the disaster relief money to processing illegals. Mayorkas thought Congress would replenish his supply without question. They didn’t.
Hurricane Beryl left at least 10 people dead in Texas. “Hospitals, assisted living facilities, schools and water treatment plants are scraping for resources after the outages debilitated infrastructure across the region.” They’re singing the praises of Alejandro Mayorkas as well.
Houston, Texas power outages stretch on days after Beryl. Why? https://t.co/RLHDCvWAQQ
— Blonde Technology (@BlondeTechCEO) July 14, 2024
It’s also crystal clear to Houston residents that CenterPoint Energy wasn’t “prepared for the storm.” It calls the entire state power grid into question.
32-year-old Jordyn Rush is especially worried about her health because she’s pregnant. “Intense heat deprives her of sleep and her fridge sits empty while the outage drags on, making life difficult as she prepares to undergo a C-section in 12 days.” Hopefully, the power will be back on by then.
Houston needs some help. “It’s been an absolute nightmare,” Rush relates. “I’m on the verge of like a mental breakdown. At this point, I can’t tell you the last time I was able to get a full night of sleep because it’s so hot. The lack of sleep is definitely wearing on me.”
No traffic lights, either
CenterPoint Energy claims that they’ll have about half those customers restored by Sunday. That leaves around another half million in the Houston area who will need to wait until sometime next week.
The weatherman says they’re looking at triple digit temperatures. The Lieutenant Governor, Dan Patrick, isn’t happy with the power company.
“We should not have roughly a million homes and businesses without power this far out,” Patrick posted on social media. “We should not have had almost every traffic light down through yesterday, with many still down. We should not have had nine fire stations without power.”
Only 20 minutes of rain #Houston #beryl pic.twitter.com/hF29iDWOkv
— SDot👨🏾💻 (@sdotstx) July 6, 2024
He’s upset that Houston seniors “in assisted living and nursing homes” weren’t “more of a priority for power restoration.”
Hospitals have another huge problem in the Houston area. Since so many people have portable generators, they’re using them. Often in the wrong place, like indoors. That means “carbon monoxide poisoning has become a serious concern.”
In Fort Bend County, which is a neighboring suburb to Houston, “more than 41 people suffered carbon monoxide poisoning.” At least two of them died.
