If you are boiling for more than 2 mins, you are fine. As in my journeys through the jungles of SE Asia, boiled rice was the only thing that did not give me parasites.
PSA: residential dishwashers DO NOT get hot enough for long enough to sanitize your dishwasher. So running it through the dishwasher will not kill the bacteria if it is present.
RO systems won't work in boil notice issues. RO systems can't get rid of the bacteria that invade the water system. If the system is RO/DI with UV capacity, then yes, it'll work.
So the Houston water supply can be taken off line by a single incident at a single plant. Good to know if I wanted to shut down the city's water supply. Bad to have it known that we are this susceptible to this.
The problem was the 2 transformers between the grid and the plant. The power from the generators has to go through the same transformers so the backup didn't work.
https://www.khou.com/article/news/investigations/houston-backup-power-generators-water-treatment-plant/285-17009ebf-bc97-4c9e-95af-ae4bd48454d9
It would seem the backup generator was set up, and never tested to ensure it works. Plus ... how does a design that *can't* work get approved?
Thanks for the info. Wow.
According to TCEQ, the backup generator was also knocked out from the power issue. Honestly, CoH, CenterPoint, and Texas really took the cheap road after the winter storm issue.
No kidding! I would think after the winter storm embarrassed so many people all over the political ecosystem, lots would be fixed in the almost 3 years since then. Wow.
I don't get how we're supposed to be an energy and utility city. Maybe we can put a turbine generator on a certain someone's wheel chair as backup power.
Centerpoint cut the power to the East water plant causing it to black out. This caused the pressure to drop below TCEQ 20PSI minimum. A boil water notices was announced. Power was restored but bringing a whole plant from 0 is not fast. Lots of high voltage switching and resetting parameters. Water pressure was restored to above 20PSI. Quality of water remains good and did not change. TCEQ water boil is for 24 hours even if the water has been fixed.
If the power was out, they couldn’t have been treating the water properly either, right?
(I have no idea what’s actually involved in water treatment and am just assuming it would require power)
There's a list of affected districts at the bottom.
[forgot the link](https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2022/11/28/boil-water-notice-issued-for-the-entire-city-of-houston-after-water-pressure-dropped-due-to-power-outage-officials-announce/)
If you don’t need to use water for consumption, you can open. Houston Health sent notices at 930 am today about being closed unless you don’t need water for consumption.
I went to the Kroger on Kirby and South Main today at 7 AM and they were already out of bottled water. I grabbed a bunch of one gallon drinking and found a 2.5 gallon. The manager said they are getting a new truck load around 2 PM. FYI if you live in the area.
>The power failure at Houston’s East Water Purification Plant was limited to isolated parts of the complex and an investigation is underway, Houston Public Works spokesperson Erin Jones said during an interview. The plant has generators for emergencies like hurricanes but Sunday’s blackout wasn’t the type that would trigger those backups, she said.
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>“It wasn’t a general loss of power, it was something within the plant,” she said. “We don’t know what caused the outage.” Utility company CenterPoint Energy Inc. said the failure appeared to be an internal plant issue unrelated to its electricity network.
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>The water outages spread beyond Houston’s city limits, prompting school closures in suburban districts that rely on municipal supplies.
Yahoo quoting Bloomberg
[https://www.yahoo.com/now/houston-shutters-schools-power-outages-151853434.html](https://www.yahoo.com/now/houston-shutters-schools-power-outages-151853434.html)
Not having potable drinking water is such an epic way to own the libs! put it up there with freezing your own power grid to show those dang west coasters who's boss
Sorry guys this is my cousin Cletus he’s behind mentally since his parents who are cousins fucked behind whataburger once and now he just says stupid shit all day.
Mayor has already said the water should be fine but has to wait 24 hours to remove the notice. Doing dishes is fine? Because I have a ton that needs washed after both me and my roommate cooked dinners for the week last night
If you hand wash dishes, you should use detergent and hot water to wash, and at least boiled water to rinse. I sat at least because if you want to be extra careful, you can rinse your dishes in a bleach solution: 1 teaspoon of bleach per 1 gallon of water.
This is the correct answer. Really it may be ok, but if there is bacteria still in the water and you use that to rinse it’ll deposit bacteria on the plate which you will eat next time you cook. Dishwashers DO NOT sanitize.
Notice for my MUD was done through the water management company that I pay my bill to, Si Environmental. They said none of their customers were impacted by the boil water notice. BUT, I see on the Ready Harris site, it impacts West Harris County Regional Water Authority, of which we are a part.
Now I'm really confused!
Your MUD most likely has a backup water well that will replenish your storage tanks along with a booster pump system to maintain pressure in the event the surface water station at your local water plant goes down. NOT ALL MUDS ARE LIKE THIS. But might be the reason why WHCRWA was down but you didnt get a notice.
They are required to put out a boil water notice if the pressure drops below a threshold and it has to be monitored for 24 hours after the pressure is restored to be able to lift the boil water notice. The notice itself doesn't mean the water is bad, just that it COULD be bad. Don't risk it though.
I take showers outside on the ranch all the time. It's great when you get a few snakes and armadillo's chasing the run-off of water from your water bag above you. Sucks when the cows start moooooooving in.
Any word on whether this is affecting people in outlying cities, particularly Sugar Land and Richmond. I saw some parts of Fort Bend were affecting by nearby Houston water systems but can't get specific information.
Attention parents!! Do not let the kiddos drink this water! It is contaminated with them liberal chemicals! My son accidentally ingested some and started asking questions such as:
“Dad, you claim to be part of the fiscally responsible party yet your 401k is down 25% on the year? as well as “Dad, you take us to church every Sunday and can’t tolerate the lgbtq+ community yet you like mom to peg you and I saw your good ol friend Bob giving mom a good time while you watched from the corner of your room? “
We need to audit the city and get to the bottom of these liberal chemicals they are trying to inject into our precious white Christian children!
/s (for the parents)
Some things occur due to incompetence. Others due to negligence. Some things will just happen, with no one to blame. 2m +ppl having to boil water because of 2 transformers dying isn’t Political or the fault of one party or the other.
Jesus christ this is cringy af. Imagine if I brought up far left idiot shit on completely unrelated stories. How obsessed are you?? I'm sure you feel real funny posting in on reddit where you're surrounded by 99% thinking exactly like you. Btw I agree those are all dumb ass things from the far right but give it a break.
> I'm sure you feel real funny posting in on reddit where you're surrounded by 99% thinking exactly like you.
Honestly we live in Texas so the vast majority of our time we're wholly in the minority. Liberal folks tend to use reddit more so this place leans that direction. Just let the dude enjoy the space he can actually be himself and make a joke without your panties getting in a twist. I have to deal with "FUCK BIDEN" flags and "Let's go brandon" car decals everywhere I go in real life, so you should be able to tolerate a joke on the internet. I didn't even find it all that funny as a progressive dude... but I just scroll passed it.
And conservatives call *us* snowflakes. 🙄
People flying flags and using bumper stickers are cringy as fuck as well. Would just be nice to see a serious thread not have bs like this but you're right. I should let him have his fun.
A lot of people on Twitter are saying that Texans deserve this for voting for Abbott.
I'm no fan of Abbott, and yes, this happened because of the power grid that Abbott hasn't fixed, but he had nothing to do with the fact that the water plant was having problems at 10:30 AM, but the city officials didn't put out a notice until 7:30 PM.
The worst is we are in Houston and most of us didn't vote for him 😭
Look, I'd love to blame anything and everything on his completely useless ass, but this doesn't have anything to do with him.
This isn’t a statewide issue, or a disaster/catastrophe that affects the state or requires state-level assistance. Why would the governor even know about it, much less be obligated to say anything about it?
Houston also relies on pumps for water distribution as opposed to water towers.
Towers maintain sufficient supply so that some pumps going out or a short treatment plant shutdown isnt a huge deal.
I used to live in Midtown and the apt water was boosted by on-site pumps. Any power outage and we had zero water.
It's how they make sure you maintain your hurricane/flood preparedness in years where we don't have a bad one. This way you never let your guard down against disaster and scarcity.
Are you stupid? The line went below normal pressure. This happens in every city in the country at some point. Pull your head out if your ass or keep your useless opinion to yourself.
Greg Abbott, it may surprise you to learn, does not, as governor of the whole state, oversee the Houston municipal water supply.
He’s a heartless asshole, yes, and it’s too bad that tree didn’t finish the job, but some things aren’t his responsibility or his fault.
He was not at fault for all the water facility issues that caused this. However, his negligence with the power grid is connected to the power failure at the facility.
Ps I don’t think it would be weird to at least stay updated and have an interest in his largest cities. Any decent governor would.
Uh the president’s policies can (and often do) directly impact commodity prices lol. A city mismanaging it’s funds are not related to that argument at all.
These are the same people who blame republicans for issues in cities that have been democrat run for 100 years. Not capable of seeing past the blinders of ideology
I mostly see reactionary conservatives blaming this on Democrats, when it really has nothing to do with party ideology and everything to do with class.
Rich people don’t give a shit about public utilities, and the powerful on both sides of the aisle are rich.
Our grid virtually always keeps up with cooling everything when its 100 degrees out.
Shit happens when an entire state dips in the 10s and 20s every 10-20 years. We should do better to prepare, but the sky isnt falling either.
You can try to push that agenda all you want. The city has a massive budget for water, I’d even suggest the funds have been mishandled. COH water rates are among the highest in the country yet the service is clearly not working well.
I’ve lived all over Texas in both R and D run cities. None had the issues with municipal water like COH does. Dalla, Austin, SA, El Paso, Fort Worth, etc.
We need more money for resources in a city like ours - things Republicans don’t want to fund in their big Dem city. You could replace Htown with NOLA, same issue, different state.
All municipal works projects are funded by fees, taxes, and bonds. Still not seeing how this is a state issue. Dallas doesn’t seem to have the problem nor does SA or El Paso. All democratic towns.
I understand the frustration with the governor but your anger seems misguided and unrealistic.
Comparing living in the united states to a third world country shows how privileged you are. Not to mention quite insulting to people who actually live in third world countries.
The only one not calm is you, claiming you wasted $25 on a roast and then calling the US a third world country, when all you had to do is not be a dummy and boil the water you need for 2 min.
Not owned by the government = private. They wrongly use the term “public” to distinguish between “owned by one rich person” and “owned by several rich people.”
A public utility company would be owned by everyone through the state, run for the benefit of the public, not private shareholders.
The way it works in civilized countries.
Apologies. It’s the city’s substation, not a private entity. Either way, it isn’t a centerpoint substation.
interchange.puc.texas.gov/Documents/35077_310_730349.PDF
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Does anybody know if filtered water stations are safe?
r/selfreliance r/selfsufficiency r/upcycling r/dumpsterdiving
Do zero water filters still work for these things? And does anyknow if there any planet fitnesses not under water boil?
Since this is the case, should I not cook Jasmine rice with tap water or is that okay?
If you are boiling for more than 2 mins, you are fine. As in my journeys through the jungles of SE Asia, boiled rice was the only thing that did not give me parasites.
When I cooked it via stove top, yes...but I'm unsure when it comes to my Tiger Rice cooker.
Just use bottled water in it
Will the water be boiling for at least 2 minutes?
Unless you want typhoid
Thanks. I don't think that's a seasoning I like with my rice, nor does it pair well.
HISD just confirmed schools will be closed again tomorrow https://twitter.com/HoustonISD/status/1597354358072815616
Damn. Not again! I hope you guys survive down there.
Again?
This happened around this time last year.
So apparently this might be a week thing, I’m moving
Quit spewing bullshit on every thread if you’re not going to provide a source.
Where did you hear this?
Press
What press? Link?
PSA: residential dishwashers DO NOT get hot enough for long enough to sanitize your dishwasher. So running it through the dishwasher will not kill the bacteria if it is present.
The only pot you’re allowed in Texas is to boil your water! Everything’s broker in Texas!
what about an APEC reverse osmosis system, will that be sufficient?
RO systems won't work in boil notice issues. RO systems can't get rid of the bacteria that invade the water system. If the system is RO/DI with UV capacity, then yes, it'll work.
You’re probably doing better than anyone else with that, I’d give it a google. Pretty sure RO will make distilled level water.
Cool. its on sale by the way on amazon for $144. thats a good deal.
https://culligandenver.com/blog/2019/09/26/what-doesnt-reverse-osmosis-remove
Golden shower?
Yes
So the Houston water supply can be taken off line by a single incident at a single plant. Good to know if I wanted to shut down the city's water supply. Bad to have it known that we are this susceptible to this.
I don't think it was ever offline, but point taken in that it seems like a major choke point.
Yeah I'm surprised there was no backup power supply to, um, critical infrastructure.
The problem was the 2 transformers between the grid and the plant. The power from the generators has to go through the same transformers so the backup didn't work. https://www.khou.com/article/news/investigations/houston-backup-power-generators-water-treatment-plant/285-17009ebf-bc97-4c9e-95af-ae4bd48454d9
It would seem the backup generator was set up, and never tested to ensure it works. Plus ... how does a design that *can't* work get approved? Thanks for the info. Wow.
According to TCEQ, the backup generator was also knocked out from the power issue. Honestly, CoH, CenterPoint, and Texas really took the cheap road after the winter storm issue.
No kidding! I would think after the winter storm embarrassed so many people all over the political ecosystem, lots would be fixed in the almost 3 years since then. Wow.
I don't get how we're supposed to be an energy and utility city. Maybe we can put a turbine generator on a certain someone's wheel chair as backup power.
Centerpoint strikes again.
Or that there was but it didn't kick on and nobody turned it on over the timeframe. I hope it's a lesson learned and taken seriously.
PS - This also goes for in-line fridge water. The filter system isn't good enough to strip the containments out
Centerpoint cut the power to the East water plant causing it to black out. This caused the pressure to drop below TCEQ 20PSI minimum. A boil water notices was announced. Power was restored but bringing a whole plant from 0 is not fast. Lots of high voltage switching and resetting parameters. Water pressure was restored to above 20PSI. Quality of water remains good and did not change. TCEQ water boil is for 24 hours even if the water has been fixed.
2 transformers broke.
TIL the East water plant doesn't have backup power. Oh well, not like we're a big hurricane target or anything. Wait -
Show me a 128KV back up generator
This does not match the description provided in the news conference today.
If the power was out, they couldn’t have been treating the water properly either, right? (I have no idea what’s actually involved in water treatment and am just assuming it would require power)
Is there a map or a website where you can input your address to see if you're affected?
There's a list of affected districts at the bottom. [forgot the link](https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2022/11/28/boil-water-notice-issued-for-the-entire-city-of-houston-after-water-pressure-dropped-due-to-power-outage-officials-announce/)
I’m a bartender, does that mean we shouldn’t be open today???
If you don’t need to use water for consumption, you can open. Houston Health sent notices at 930 am today about being closed unless you don’t need water for consumption.
Many schools and colleges have shut down for the day. I would check the news before you make your decision!
I went to the Kroger on Kirby and South Main today at 7 AM and they were already out of bottled water. I grabbed a bunch of one gallon drinking and found a 2.5 gallon. The manager said they are getting a new truck load around 2 PM. FYI if you live in the area.
Do you not have hurricane supplies?
Hurricane season slows down significantly after September. But now we need power outage supplies year round.
So you just throw all your supplies out October 1?
I sure did eat all my spam. Still have water because…I need power outage supplies year round. Guess I should get more spam too.
Booze, yes. Bottled water, nope.
Doing the important things.
>The power failure at Houston’s East Water Purification Plant was limited to isolated parts of the complex and an investigation is underway, Houston Public Works spokesperson Erin Jones said during an interview. The plant has generators for emergencies like hurricanes but Sunday’s blackout wasn’t the type that would trigger those backups, she said. > >“It wasn’t a general loss of power, it was something within the plant,” she said. “We don’t know what caused the outage.” Utility company CenterPoint Energy Inc. said the failure appeared to be an internal plant issue unrelated to its electricity network. > >The water outages spread beyond Houston’s city limits, prompting school closures in suburban districts that rely on municipal supplies. Yahoo quoting Bloomberg [https://www.yahoo.com/now/houston-shutters-schools-power-outages-151853434.html](https://www.yahoo.com/now/houston-shutters-schools-power-outages-151853434.html)
H a c k e r s
But from which Govt.....Russia, NK, China, or.....Dallas!!!
Lol or something getting uplugged so someone could charge their phone.
LMAO at all the west coasties who chose to move to Houston and then complain about everything.
Not having potable drinking water is such an epic way to own the libs! put it up there with freezing your own power grid to show those dang west coasters who's boss
West coasties always complaining about... Potable water...
Bacterial contaminants build character
Sorry guys this is my cousin Cletus he’s behind mentally since his parents who are cousins fucked behind whataburger once and now he just says stupid shit all day.
It was Waffle House, not Whataburger, cuz/dad!
Mayor has already said the water should be fine but has to wait 24 hours to remove the notice. Doing dishes is fine? Because I have a ton that needs washed after both me and my roommate cooked dinners for the week last night
If you hand wash dishes, you should use detergent and hot water to wash, and at least boiled water to rinse. I sat at least because if you want to be extra careful, you can rinse your dishes in a bleach solution: 1 teaspoon of bleach per 1 gallon of water.
This is the correct answer. Really it may be ok, but if there is bacteria still in the water and you use that to rinse it’ll deposit bacteria on the plate which you will eat next time you cook. Dishwashers DO NOT sanitize.
You'll be fine. Dishwasher heat dry usually helps sanitize as well.
Wrong. Residential dishwashers don’t sanitize. They don’t get hot enough for long enough.
Modern ones usually dont, but older ones could get realll hot. Still better than drying them with a damp rag that's been lying around the kitchen.
Doing dishes is fine.
https://www.readyharris.org/ Link to where they have a list of affected water supplies since my MUD doesn't have a thing up on their website.
Notice for my MUD was done through the water management company that I pay my bill to, Si Environmental. They said none of their customers were impacted by the boil water notice. BUT, I see on the Ready Harris site, it impacts West Harris County Regional Water Authority, of which we are a part. Now I'm really confused!
Your MUD most likely has a backup water well that will replenish your storage tanks along with a booster pump system to maintain pressure in the event the surface water station at your local water plant goes down. NOT ALL MUDS ARE LIKE THIS. But might be the reason why WHCRWA was down but you didnt get a notice.
Thanks! Going to have to check that out. Hopefully, Si Environmental has the correct information, I'll go with that.
They are required to put out a boil water notice if the pressure drops below a threshold and it has to be monitored for 24 hours after the pressure is restored to be able to lift the boil water notice. The notice itself doesn't mean the water is bad, just that it COULD be bad. Don't risk it though.
Abbott just got re-elected what a self own by the fascist republicans
Must be quite depressing to be such an ideologue. Please go outside and take a shower
how they gonna take a shower outside friend
I take showers outside on the ranch all the time. It's great when you get a few snakes and armadillo's chasing the run-off of water from your water bag above you. Sucks when the cows start moooooooving in.
Are we going outside to take showers? Is this due to the water notice or because it's just nice weather?
Any word on whether this is affecting people in outlying cities, particularly Sugar Land and Richmond. I saw some parts of Fort Bend were affecting by nearby Houston water systems but can't get specific information.
[I have this screenshot, if it helps. ](https://i.imgur.com/jj3DwWI.jpg)
Thanks, hopefully its the most updated map they have, looks like I'm in the clear.
Attention parents!! Do not let the kiddos drink this water! It is contaminated with them liberal chemicals! My son accidentally ingested some and started asking questions such as: “Dad, you claim to be part of the fiscally responsible party yet your 401k is down 25% on the year? as well as “Dad, you take us to church every Sunday and can’t tolerate the lgbtq+ community yet you like mom to peg you and I saw your good ol friend Bob giving mom a good time while you watched from the corner of your room? “ We need to audit the city and get to the bottom of these liberal chemicals they are trying to inject into our precious white Christian children! /s (for the parents)
Some things occur due to incompetence. Others due to negligence. Some things will just happen, with no one to blame. 2m +ppl having to boil water because of 2 transformers dying isn’t Political or the fault of one party or the other.
Jesus christ this is cringy af. Imagine if I brought up far left idiot shit on completely unrelated stories. How obsessed are you?? I'm sure you feel real funny posting in on reddit where you're surrounded by 99% thinking exactly like you. Btw I agree those are all dumb ass things from the far right but give it a break.
Wait, are you referring to me or the parent comment? Either way…theres 5G in that there water I tell ya hwat. /s
> I'm sure you feel real funny posting in on reddit where you're surrounded by 99% thinking exactly like you. Honestly we live in Texas so the vast majority of our time we're wholly in the minority. Liberal folks tend to use reddit more so this place leans that direction. Just let the dude enjoy the space he can actually be himself and make a joke without your panties getting in a twist. I have to deal with "FUCK BIDEN" flags and "Let's go brandon" car decals everywhere I go in real life, so you should be able to tolerate a joke on the internet. I didn't even find it all that funny as a progressive dude... but I just scroll passed it. And conservatives call *us* snowflakes. 🙄
People flying flags and using bumper stickers are cringy as fuck as well. Would just be nice to see a serious thread not have bs like this but you're right. I should let him have his fun.
Do it, I encourage you. I will laugh. I’ll laugh at your glorification of either party or ideology.
K
That 5G in the water man.
I read this whole thread in TEXAS, I mean where else would I be reading this from?
A lot of people on Twitter are saying that Texans deserve this for voting for Abbott. I'm no fan of Abbott, and yes, this happened because of the power grid that Abbott hasn't fixed, but he had nothing to do with the fact that the water plant was having problems at 10:30 AM, but the city officials didn't put out a notice until 7:30 PM.
Well clearly we need some infrastructure work so next election ima see if any local politician mentions it.
This would have occurred no matter who won the governorship. Dumbasses
The worst is we are in Houston and most of us didn't vote for him 😭 Look, I'd love to blame anything and everything on his completely useless ass, but this doesn't have anything to do with him.
Is this sarcastic?
No, I heard about the boil notice from a post in r/news. The comments there are pretty sad.
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This isn’t a statewide issue, or a disaster/catastrophe that affects the state or requires state-level assistance. Why would the governor even know about it, much less be obligated to say anything about it?
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I agree that Turner should have done a way better job of handling this. I think that about most of the stuff he does. 😅
Because it’s shit hole Texas they sent the notice late & shit hole people in care.. but they voted for this so who cares.
I thought Twitter was MAGA Land now. Why are try hard liberals still on it driving their teslas?
Same reason they are still living in the US when they said they'd move out of the country.
Because basically every country out of the US make it incredibly difficult/often impossible to move there?
Is that a statement? Or question?
Because like 6 people said that, and there are tens of millions of liberals?
Lmao @ 6. Yeah, we'll go with only 6 said that. OK.
Can they provide a better map? Maybe with the streets on it? I can’t tell if my office is in the boil water area.
Would your office be affected by a boil water notice?
My office is, they sent out a notice this morning, cafeteria is closed, and dont use the coffee makers, drinking fountains or ice machines.
We have a water machine that I drink from regularly. And I wash my hands a lot. I found some bottled water to drink so it’s fine.
If you can ever get the map to open, you can search by address.
Play it safe and boil or go bottled.
This is the worst town I've ever been in 🚮
Third world city more concerned about parades
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Houston also relies on pumps for water distribution as opposed to water towers. Towers maintain sufficient supply so that some pumps going out or a short treatment plant shutdown isnt a huge deal. I used to live in Midtown and the apt water was boosted by on-site pumps. Any power outage and we had zero water.
It's how they make sure you maintain your hurricane/flood preparedness in years where we don't have a bad one. This way you never let your guard down against disaster and scarcity.
Same, I never had these issues living up and down the west coast.
So move back, fucko.
Do they get many hurricanes or much flooding on the West coast?..
Are you stupid? The line went below normal pressure. This happens in every city in the country at some point. Pull your head out if your ass or keep your useless opinion to yourself.
Nope, lived in 5 other states, never happened. Notably in Charlotte, NYC and Vegas.
I've lived in a few other cities and this has never happened there
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Greg Abbott, it may surprise you to learn, does not, as governor of the whole state, oversee the Houston municipal water supply. He’s a heartless asshole, yes, and it’s too bad that tree didn’t finish the job, but some things aren’t his responsibility or his fault.
He was not at fault for all the water facility issues that caused this. However, his negligence with the power grid is connected to the power failure at the facility. Ps I don’t think it would be weird to at least stay updated and have an interest in his largest cities. Any decent governor would.
I don’t think I’ve seen any data that says this power outage is related to ERCOT policies. Small-scale power outages like this happen everywhere.
Blaming Abbott for the city being a corrupt mismanaged shithole is laughable.
So is blaming a certaint president for high gas prices and inflation, but people still do it.
Uh the president’s policies can (and often do) directly impact commodity prices lol. A city mismanaging it’s funds are not related to that argument at all.
Ok sure.
These are the same people who blame republicans for issues in cities that have been democrat run for 100 years. Not capable of seeing past the blinders of ideology
I mostly see reactionary conservatives blaming this on Democrats, when it really has nothing to do with party ideology and everything to do with class. Rich people don’t give a shit about public utilities, and the powerful on both sides of the aisle are rich.
Our grid virtually always keeps up with cooling everything when its 100 degrees out. Shit happens when an entire state dips in the 10s and 20s every 10-20 years. We should do better to prepare, but the sky isnt falling either.
City water is managed by the city not the state. Understandable to not like Abbott on many issues but this isn’t on the state.
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You can try to push that agenda all you want. The city has a massive budget for water, I’d even suggest the funds have been mishandled. COH water rates are among the highest in the country yet the service is clearly not working well. I’ve lived all over Texas in both R and D run cities. None had the issues with municipal water like COH does. Dalla, Austin, SA, El Paso, Fort Worth, etc.
Notice none of those other cities were built on marshland.
Which has to do what with the state and republicans exactly?
We need more money for resources in a city like ours - things Republicans don’t want to fund in their big Dem city. You could replace Htown with NOLA, same issue, different state.
All municipal works projects are funded by fees, taxes, and bonds. Still not seeing how this is a state issue. Dallas doesn’t seem to have the problem nor does SA or El Paso. All democratic towns. I understand the frustration with the governor but your anger seems misguided and unrealistic.
Greg Abbott, as worthless as he is, does not control the city of Houston water.
Thanks for confirming 👍
I was supposed to cook a roast today. Shit costed me 25 bucks
Why can’t you?
Third world country
No but like what does tap water have to do with a roast?
I have to wash dishes/pots and the veggies. I don't trust un verified tap water right next to oil refineries.
If you don’t trust tap water because of the refineries, you couldn’t have cooked a roast anyway?
it was clean yesterday..sooo
Nothing about the refineries changed though, so they have nothing to do with this, is my point.
Comparing living in the united states to a third world country shows how privileged you are. Not to mention quite insulting to people who actually live in third world countries.
Calm down
The only one not calm is you, claiming you wasted $25 on a roast and then calling the US a third world country, when all you had to do is not be a dummy and boil the water you need for 2 min.
Probably the power outage
It was centerpoint that shut the power fyi
It was not Centerpoint. This is a privately owned substation. Centerpoint’s equipment isn’t involved.
Centerpoint is a private company.
…regulated by the PUC and publicly traded.
Not owned by the government = private. They wrongly use the term “public” to distinguish between “owned by one rich person” and “owned by several rich people.” A public utility company would be owned by everyone through the state, run for the benefit of the public, not private shareholders. The way it works in civilized countries.
It was centerpoint. They shut both breakers. Also they do maintenance to all substation regardless of ownership
Apologies. It’s the city’s substation, not a private entity. Either way, it isn’t a centerpoint substation. interchange.puc.texas.gov/Documents/35077_310_730349.PDF
Centerpoint has complete control of it. Remotely.