Woman trapped in home for 5 days turns to Action 13 about downed lines
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Natalie Washington told ABC13 that she had no way of knowing whether lines fallen in front of her house were live. She became trapped for five days. abc13.com/1484...
why the hell does it so often take intervention by a local news crew before a company will take any action in situations like this?
It wasn't the electric company's line. She was complaining to the wrong company. It turned out to be a harmless telephone wire.
@@theotheleo6830 yes, but normally if you call up the electric company and tell them there's downed wires they at least come check.
@@theotheleo6830 They could have told her that.
@@willieverusethis She could've called the telephone company.
No accountability anywhere. You take your complaints to someone and they say oops someone else's problem/job not mine!
You did the right thing, don’t ever touch any downed power lines, they can kill you instantly. Thank GOD you got power back, it’s too hot to be without it now. 👍😎🙏🏼✌️
It wasn't a power line. It was a telephone line. It's harmless.
@@theotheleo6830 Some people can't tell though. I just Googled some images and it was even hard for me to make such a distinction.
@@theotheleo6830 it's a power line fuck off
She seems like a sweet lady
I may use that excuse to keep my husband out of the house for days lol
Glad they are all safe.
Shame on CenterPoint! They should have taken care of her IMMEDIATELY! Disgusting that they made her live in fear for five days.
It's amazing how bad publicity can get the utility co. or any business off their asses & do their job
Is that power company privately owned?
Amazing. God is Amazing
Why can't anything be done nowadays in a timely manner?! Especially in this case. Utility company KNEW two people thought they were trapped inside a home because of the threat of electrocution, and without power, and did absolutely nothing about it! What was more important? I've seen some of these city employees out "working ". It's like how many does it take to unscrew a light bulb with everybody standing around getting paid. I understand employees were busy with calls and cleaning up the streets, but this matter should have been put at the top of the list. And who took all the calls from the family to the utility company? Customer service reps? Supervisors? And still not one put it out for dispatch. Will ANY employee get written up? Lose their job? Just like a 911 operator all the calls from people trapped and their family were just as urgent to take. Then still after 5 days it took Utility company an hour and a half to finally get there only AFTER the News called them about it. Do these big money making companies even care about lawsuits anymore? (if ever they did). This story could have been a lot worse. Being without a power source for 5 five days can have alll kind of repercussions. How can this utility company make it up to these two people about what happened? Time for this family to lawyer up for the extreme distress and being deprived their emotional well-being due to the company's negligence. When all along it could have been determined wires on the ground were communication cables, not live wires. Just glad everyone in this story is going to be ok.
Blaming Cemterpointe and it wasn’t even their lines. The linemen have been spread thin and pushed to the limit lately.
Trapping for 5 days straight and staying awake by doing 13 lines? Str8 hustlin.. 💯 💪
You are absolutely pathetic.
Doesn't she have a back door
The back door may not give access to the street. Mine doesn't, has a 7.5 foot wall surrounding the garden.
Cry about the wrong things
Why couldn’t she go out the back door, Al the lines were across the front. ???? Something ain’t adding up !!!
If I went out my back door I would only be in my backyard. I have thick mature vegetation on all 3 sides of my property that is full of spiders and other native wildlife as well as 6 foot tall chain link fencing in the middle of all that. Basically, without a chainsaw or machete, heavy duty leather gloves, I can't even get to the fence, then I'd need to convince my neighbors to cut down their vegetation on their side of the fence as well to finish getting over it. That's a good 2+ week project for someone like me, a total novice who hired professionals to put in the fence and vegetation in the first place.
I can see how you'd be confused if all you're used to seeing is boring picket fences with shared gates in to your neighbor's yards though, but that's not how every house is set up. 🤷🏼♀️
@@wendys6438have you been to this lady’s home? Have you seen her backyard? What is in your backyard has no bearing on my comment. I’m not trying to be mean to this lady, just wondering why SHE could not go out the back. Either way the grandson could climb any grown up fence row and bring back help to get her over!!
@@ronnie32567 you're confused about universal experiences. That's okay. Perhaps some day you'll learn, but I'm not here to teach you, that's a journey you'll have to go on alone. 👍🏻
@@wendys6438universal experiences my ass. You must be a democrat if you think that just because you have bushes on your fence that everyone else has them too. You’re living in fantasy land. I’m surprised that you can even find your way back home at the end of the day!!! SMDH !!!! At the pure stupidity of your comment
Yeah what is not adding up is you were not there and it wasn't your grandson. You don't know the situation and what the firefighters told her. That's not what is adding up. I pretty sure this would cause people to move with caution. It wasn't your life in jeopardy so have some compassion please
How sad.....I know how she feels and the helplessness and hopelessness overwhelms an older person.
Apparently she doesn’t have a back door! That is sad.
THANK YOU ABC13!
Thanks so much for helping this lady and her family
What I've learned from the news is that Houston is a terrible place to live....between the weather and the crime....
They have no right to treat people like that.
I'd be that neighbor throwing her food and other supplies from the street.
Thank you ABC 13
If she would of contacted charter about there down lines she be waiting till next year she was smart to tell news crew she thought they were electric lines
Wow, cable lines are getting powerful, setting trees on fire and stuff.
getting?
as if this is new and not how it's always been basically... oi
Seriously? Why does it always take public shame to get something done?
The difference between stupid and genius - genius has its limits.
Back door ?
The telephone line laid over the driveway and they didn't want to walk over it or drive over it, apparently.
@@theotheleo6830 do you understand where a back door goes ?
@@nickytheyahoo_ It leads to their backyard. Are you suggesting that the grandma climb the fence into their neighbor's backyard?
@@theotheleo6830hahaha you’re freaking ridiculous .
@@nickytheyahoo_ I see this simple issue is too complex for you.
Omg ..prayers😢
What’s the prayers for? They resolved the issue.. no praying needed… just needed ABC13
She cannot get out and the implement trapping her is in the control of the power company. Seems like unlawful confinement.
She could get out and simply avoid contact with the lines. Power company can’t mitigate her lack of intelligence.
@@alextownsend6662 Most would agree she was intelligent to stay away from it, unlike your comment.
@alextownsend6662 She was told, by the fire department, to stay away from it. They didn't know whether it was a high voltage power cable (deadly), or a low voltage cable. It took 5 days, and the involvement of the news team, for the power company to come out and assess the situation.
Now, a high voltage cable has enough juice to arc several feet (can't just step over it), and was across the access to her home. She did the only intelligent thing she could do, avoid it!
Why are you filming her through iron bars?
That is Houston. Iron bars are required in some parts of that city unfortunately. In some Neighborhoods the cameras and microphones would be at risk as well as their vehicle. Sad, but true. I stay the hell out of Houston unless paid well to do so.
Same thing happened to me in Pueblo Colorado. No one even came to look at the cable. A neighbor eventually picked it up nd tucked it behind some bushes.
Even if they couldn’t make instant repairs, why leave wires draped over driveway and fence???
Took 5 days to do what took the news crew less than 2 hours. Shameful
They were told by someone they trusted. What would it have hurt the electric company to come check it out and let them know even though they were down, it was ok.
GOD IS SO GOOD GLAD THEY GOT HELP
That looked like fiber cables. Takes a trained eye to look at where exactly it is on the pole line. Crazy it took 5 days
Call the fire department????
There was a 🔥.
They said it in the video.
See Hmmm Jesus Jesus
our tax dollars at work
Tax dollars has nothing to do with private utility companies lines.
@@NextNate03 I meant the response (or lack thereof) my dear
House arrest sweet heart, dat's all ❤❤❤
So what $$$$$$$$ 😊
You've got to be kidding me! I could tell it was a telephone wire just by looking at it. The wires look different than the power lines. Also, you could see the power line above it and how they are connected to each home. She was blaming the electric company for not repairing another company's downed and harmless line and this is the electric company's fault? smdh
I wouldn't be able to tell and I wouldn't go out there to prove it. Where I live all the power lines are underground so nothing overhead.
Well great for you that you know the difference. For the rest of us…… better safe than sorry but of course, you’d find a way to blame her.
@@firewater365 I blame her because she was blaming the wrong utility.
@@parrotcracker6629 If your power line is underground, there is no way that you would be in the same situation as her. So...
What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Billy Madison
Love the false eyelashes.
A.k.a. cumbrellas
Oh girl, baby girl , no.
Don't go there.
Too soon.
Accentuates her eyes……. I’d imagine your jealousy made you post this 😅😅😅😅
She was not trapped. Some people love to feed themselves with the drama, attention, and the blame game.
Karen.
Fearing is much different than knowing she didn’t even try to leave. She didn’t even try to go out of her back door. She could’ve gone out some other way she acts like she’s trapped and she’s not. She could’ve gone out the back door around to the side away from the other side of the house, but no, she’s gonna act like it’s, some big line that’s going to shock the crap out of her if she moves near her house she has a whole back yard and other side yard that she could go out drama drama drama these people are ridiculous. I wouldn’t have stayed my damn house I would’ve walked out the back door and down the street screw that.
Sounds scary but She would not even unlock & come out from behind her gated front porch for the news interview after it was sure she was safe.
Sounds like someone or other just needed a lil excuse for a 5 day staycation away from their spouse to me. 😒
~Bless her heart.
& she coulda spent some of that time taking down those Christmas lights that are still up 5 months after the holidays past.
~ juz sayin 😒
talking about some random persons christmas lights while you looking like a freaking Christmas tree is hilarious.
@@bloodlove93 I was going for a grinch green lantern mashup but glad to make ya giggle. 💚
This kids.. is why education is important..
You are not bright at all if you think she should have experimented with those lines. She is not a fkn electrician, and she was advised by the fire department to stay clear.
Be sure and keep checking those light sockets with your tongue. If you get it right your redhat will light up - promise!
Dumbest comment I have read today.
@@higgs923you people think you’re so funny
Spoiler alert it was humorous @@andrewanderson5948