Texas acting Gov Dan Patrick, TDEM Chief Nim Kidd give update on Beryl recovery
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- Hurricane Beryl ripped through Houston, leaving millions without power, downed trees and property damage. Read more: www.khou.com/
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I have a brother in Houston he has been running his generator for almost 4 days. He served 3 tours in Iraq. Something needs to change.
He was prepared❤
If he served three tours in Iraq then four days without electricity in a house is a luxury vacation for him.
We DEFINITELY need positive Change in Houston, & across Texas. 3rd Storm in 6-8 wks with dangerous flooding & power outages.
So many vulnerable People are suffering & struggling, AGAIN. Doesn't have to be this way.
I'm south of Houston, my only "Child" OIF Veteran. Sending Your Brother, & You, my best Wishes, & goood Vibes as We overcome these challenges.
Y'all take Care. ✌🏼💙✊🏼💙🙏🏼💙🐾
100% Abbott fault. Abbott fled for vacation when the hurricane was coming and refused to come back early. He is in Japan right now.
My son lives in Sienna Plantation neighborhood, near Sugarland and they got their electricity back at 2ish Friday, if that helps you.🙏🙏🙏
Spend that energy you're wasting on pointing fingers and come up with a plan. No wonder nothing is getting done.
They can't. Planning is antithetical to GOP.
The worst part is Greg Abbott fled the country with the VP of Centerpoint to Asia for a PR conference and refused to come back. They are in Japan right now having a vacation.
Don’t play politics when people are suffering.
I’m a 70 yr old woman, do not drive and live alone, I could care less if Biden or anyone is to blame you people have power, you don’t know or have not gone thru a day w/no power no stove to cook and no ice or ice chest, my refrigerator food all spoiled who is going to replace that … it’s sorry to hear these men that say they’re helping, such a shame
I'm with ya but you better believe illegals aren't doing without
I'm 67 and in the same boat pretty much
FEMA will not give food. Only help for food is to contact the Houston Food Bank. Please do so.
Medicine that needs to be refrigerated ==== That is a priority . Food and medicine. First responders should have been organized for this. . Whoever Dan Patrick organized for that . Who were/ or who are they ?. I am not talking about fire,police or ambulance either. I am talking about this braggart Texan
@@SusieW-e3y You are responsible for securing your medicine. Centerpoint is responsible for electrical things. Be mad at them. Next, be mad at your County Judge. They are reasonable for your county. Place the blame where it needs to be. Your County Judge should have been asking for things from the State and the State would have given it to them. One can’t be given anything, if it hasn’t been asked for…
I hope you're just as outraged at the lady whose whole house burned down because of Centerpoint's negligence or the people dying of heatstroke.
He couldn't care less
I promise you he doesn't
These people care about their wallet not about fellow Texans.
Our county Judge in Harris County she needs to go..
She thinks she more important then anyone else vote this so call Judge out.
Absolutely agree!
Oh she’s done!!
She’s been a nightmare
Dora must leave the adventure... 👋
Harris County is the largest county in Houston and has done a great job in these situations. dan patrick and many other "good ole boys" with money and influence wants control of downtown Houston and this is just another way of them trying to get her out and put their guy in. It's already been done with whitmire who ran as a Democrat but is clearly a republican plant put in place to make Harris County red because it's actually purple so there are limits to what they can do
This is NOT the time to be hyperpolitical! Natural disasters are among the few times people MUST (and mostly do) put these aside and come together.
Yea we do but at some point you have to see we are being played
When you don't have power, you don't have over an hour to waste your battery on listening to finger pointing. There will be plenty of time for that later. We need to know when we will have power, where to get gas, water, food, ac now. Goodness, people are STILL suffering. Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
Jesus christ Dan is insufferable. Man's acting like it's time for drama hour out here.
I’m 23 minutes in and there’s no update on the power. No one wants to sit through the rant of governor’s lickspittle.
@@jward95 did you hear him .."oh yeah the power"🤔🙄🤷🙆🤦
Not the Governor. The real governor is on vacation
They trying to get texa to riot so they can enforcement some real laws thats why they sent cops out there instead of people to fix yall broken power lines
This is not a political campaign just give the facts and move on.
He is giving the facts. Biden and Hidalgo have been lying to the people.
The worst part is Abbott fled the country with the VP of Centerpoint to do a PR tour in Asia and has refused to come back. They are in Japan right now having fun and going to fancy dinners.
SO basically 💰 is the reason that you All are dragging your feet regarding power restoration at the expense of the public. "The LOVE of money is the root of evil" Evil!
Yes, the new CEO from California was negotiating with out of state contractors and putting profit over people in a time of crisis.
Houston Light and Power before it was CenterPoint used to send out people to cut trees by power lines on a yearly basis what happened to that there hasn't been anybody out here to take care of that in years
ANYBODY ELSE THINK THIS STORM WAS MORE THAN A CAT 1??
I HAVE BEEN A LOT OF HURRICANS,THAT WAS JUST A SIMPLE STORM. GENIU😂😂😂
Absolutely a Cat 2
PUC needs to investigate why Centerpoint energy cares more about profits than its customers health and safety.
This was a Cat 1 with light flooding early in the season. Centerpoint has had 20+ years of max profits, the bare minimum should be a complete overhaul of the patched up grid in Houston on centerpoint’s dime.
I watched today's PUC Hearing in Austin..
They were "sending thoughts & prayers" to those of US effected.
They looked nice, well dressed, freshly showered even, sitting in the air conditioned, well-lit Hearing room.
How nice for them.
Are there any tears for the thousands of folks sitting in unbearable heat with no lights AND no water? Imagine they don’t even have a car to drive to get hot food somewhere… is it sad the police officer was killed? Yes. It’s also sad all of the families still sitting with no lights /ac , hot as hell and now it’s raining again..
Seems to be more and more the case one might say we are being played
That guy who pistol whipped the employee WAS SUFFERING FROM HEAT SICKNESS MOST LIKELY 😢
GREG ABBOTTS PENSION IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOUR LIVES!!!!!!
This guy is wow angry and didn’t even let anyone actually ask questions. I didn’t know there was another story line until he told me he was here to give us the truth, but I think all we got was a belligerent man with a broken pipeline up his shipping hole.
Blah blah blah, just talking !!! Pointing fingers but no action !!!!!!
Exactly! What was the basis of the outcome of all this??? Get the power back on!!!!!!!
I could use a food reimbursement
Just a reminder.
“Monday night, Georgia Power sent a team of more than 50 company personnel and contract teams to assist Texas-New Mexico Power in its recovery efforts. Georgia Power's restoration workforce includes line crews, engineers, safety and support personnel from around the state”
Thank God I got sick several times yesterday bc of 95 deg temps
These are things all states should have but no-taxation Texas is in short supply and payback is a You-know-what!
Thank all the police and security officers for protecting us during these times
Here is the thing. Since the start of April my part of Harris County has had 3 bad storms. First, a very bad electrical storm we didn’t have power for maybe 3 days. Next, we had that tornado. We didn’t have power for 5 days, after that. We didn’t have power for 2 days from the Hurricane. That’s 10 days with no power. We have lost 2 fridge’s full of food. I had just gone grocery shopping in the first two instances. We bought a generator, after the tornado. We can’t stand up to losing more food. No one replaces it. One is on their own. I didn’t even buy cold food this time, just in case. My point? This is 2024 and something is wrong with the electrical grid. I don’t know who is to blame. All I know is that someone needs to investigate it and hold those responsible to the letter of the law. People that can ill afford to lose food are being victimized. It has to stop and things have to change.
I’ve watched the Houston Mayor and the Governor and I think they are doing a fabulous job. I’m impressed with the Texas Emergency Director, too. None of this is easy. We too have learned something new, after each storm.
Lord have Mercy. I completely agree with Your 1st paragraph. I lost 3 fridges full of Food, & this time depleted alot of my "Storm Supplies" of canned Foods & bottled Water.
While I have appreciated the Houston mayor throughout this latest crisis, I was completely shocked at the "ACTING gov" dan patrick, today. I watched the 1hr presser in Austin LIVE .. he was arrogant, condescending, dismissive, & misleading. HE was the only 1 "POLITICIZING" this disaster. While over a million PEOPLE in HOUSTON were without power (& many w/o Water) for the 4th day, 100°+ heat indexes, patrick said, "We're GOOD.." & "WE don't NEED Joe Biden's generators!"
He threw alot of blame & accusations around. Never heard him take ANY responsibility, or express REAL CONCERN for fellow Texans suffering & struggling & losing HOPE.
I was stunned at his lack of awareness & COMPASSION. & I felt sad & insulted.
He thinks Texans are stupid.
Wishing You & Yours the best, as We meet these challenges. Take Care.
✌🏼💙✊🏼💙🙏🏼💙🐾
@@ggbythesea9231 I’m sorry you felt that way and for the challenges you are facing. I think the Lt. Governor has a great deal of compassion. I also think that he’s feeling the stress, worry, and downright angry how the press is portraying everything. Can you imagine working 12-16 hour days and all you hear and see are lies about everything? He’s trying to get everything the people of Texas need, but is being met with resistance. He was almost crying about that young deputy that was gunned down. Our peace officers are hurting. I’ve talked to Harris County Deputies. They feel underpaid, left out, and downright abused by their superiors and by the Harris County DA and management. I was told that they arrest criminals and the DA refuses the charges, so they have to let them go. The County Judge is power hungry, mean, and acts superior. Look at how she acts at the funerals of our fallen peace officers. She puts herself over their families. Those families deserve nothing but respect.
In my opinion, the ones you need to direct your ire to is the upper management of Centerpoint. The lineman are doing their best, but the upper Management chose not to make the infrastructure improvements. It’s money over people with them. I read an article the other day that said they were already being fined for inappropriate practices. So, it’s just business as usual for them. They have even had the nerve to apply for a rate hike. They also want money for the repairs from the tornado. I think they need to be on their own. They chose not to improve things. That’s on them and their management. I read the CEO makes $1.1 Million dollars per year. Plus, you know he’s not sitting in the heat with spoiled food.
God Bless you and I hope things improve for you, quickly.
As to the generator situation, he explained that in this video. None of those generators could have gone directly to the citizens and they take forever to get in place and up running. I’ve seen the generators that are running the traffic lights. I didn’t know they were from the Emergency Management agency. That’s good to know.
What a waste of airtime. People are without power. This is not the time Dan.
Shut up what does that have to do with anything ?!
This is mainly up to Centerpoint, not every freaking moment has to be about power
@@davidleyt1060 until you don't have power
Dora
That’s exactly what he supposed to do. He is updating the public.
Help us if you try for governor, you are not there. Missouri city needs lights, ice, etc so stop lying about asking all counties
@@starrbright6803 SW Houston as well 🙄
Thank you Lt. Governor for telling the facts and providing the resources to back it up. Biden and Hildago trying to politicize this is disgusting.
Liar
@@MsAlien911Your name speaks volumes 😂😂😂
Lies after lies, who owns Center Point ?
What does President Biden have to do with what’s going on in Texas? Dan Patrick is a liar and trying to deflect his lack of action. Be a leader Dan instead of passing the buck
Wow, this is deplorable. Dan is doing a huge disservice to the State of Texas and the people of Harris and all affected counties. They are not able to show honor and take responsibility and accountability for their shortcomings. The desperation is palpable…. Blame the others.
That's what they always do. We're still waiting for help from Harvey.
The governor should have RACED back to Texas. But no. Where is he and why has he not here.
What is he going to do. He is more useful meeting with presidents and CEOs to get us more jobs.
Schmoozing Taiwan billionaires
Do you really need the governor to hold your hand???? Everything that needs to be done is being done. People are working around the clock to do what needs to be done. Be patient
He doesn't do anything for Texas. He only does things for himself. Don't believe the hype. This guy is on vacation and gave Texans the middle finger.
I rather hear this guy rather than abbot
I'm not listening to anymore your excuses I'm for voting you guys out
Maybe you should hear them out. Your inability to listen to others prevents you from hearing facts.
🤣🤣. You can not even get sleepy joe out. How you going to do this????
@kodywalker9902 they failied us again
Please focus less on politicizing procedures and more on actionable solutions. Avoid dwelling on who gets credit or blame, as it doesn't help the people.
Instead, ensure funds are used effectively and quickly to address the current outages and other recent storm-related damages.
Also, verify that contracted companies aren't overcharging just because they've donated to your previous campaigns, ensuring that every dollar is spent towards making a real difference here and now.
DO YOUR JOBS!!
Lol, every other government asks the president the day before a hurricane hits, not after.
Your talking out of your A$S
Drunk on power, but can't get power in people homes. Don't mess with Texas, Beryrl had other ideas.
Umnn if I remember right from past disasters
, FEMA did distribute money to businesses.
This press conference was just attacking others instead of addressing issues. And why are we politically charging an issue that should have nothing to do with politics. They are just skirting their own responsibility, even the emerengcy management director. This is kind of sad.
Previous storms they gave out food and other resources. Very odd so many people without power and food and haven't heard anything about MRE and water distribution.
I was just thinking that. Where is FEMA and state help? Oh wait they were useless in other hurricanes too. Everyone on its own as always for ordinary citizens while the rich jumped on their private planes and flew off to their other mansions.
Where the hell are all of this help and briefing. Missouri city is suffering no light, trees down, fences down etc
Same here. We got power back only yesterday. Hope you can get power soon. Be safe
@@starrbright6803 SW Houston as well. Those numbers of those with power are ALL LIES
LET THEM EAT CAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RIGHT GREG ABBOTT 👏 👌 😢
You wanted your independent power grid now you can't maintain it take care of it
🤡
Lt Governor you aren't mentioning Entergy!
Call in the Military 😡
That would mean that we would actually receive help. THAT is not priority for them!!! THIS is a money grab at OUR expense. How many trucks/workers have you seen 🤔??? Exactly. Pure Evil!!!!
Exactly smhh
None
@@dashingnurse5098 not one truck
THE SOROS DISTRICT ATTORNEY HAS ALL BUT DESTROYED HOUSTON
Quit making excuses for not working for the greater good of your cyotizens and prefacing your excuses by eulogizing a slain police officer😢. Just trifling and sad----- fix your grid. Require generators in public businesses needed in emergencies. Grow up and provide your citizens with public services!!!!!!!😂😂😂😂
CAN I ASK HOW MANY PEOPLE INVENTED FREE POWER AND MYSTERIOUSLY DIED OR DISAPPEARED...I LIKE TO KNOW HOW GREEDY ARE THESE POWER COMPANIES???
Thank You for exposing the corruption in politics and explaining the processes.
Pitiful playing politics with jabs and doging,
Half of Baytown BAYWAY community still no power
La porte also this is some bs games
@@stanhill-yg5zi Same down here in Dickinson.
@@DavidHenry-d3t we are being played
Where are the trucks 🙄🤔? THEY are NO where to be found!!!
Currently day 5 with no power, this is way to much talk and not enough actions. It’s hot guys, at what point in this video do we get a realistic time to expect power back because quite frankly I don’t wanna use my battery life watching an hour long video?
Where are you? Cleveland TX got power last night. End of Day 4.
Brazoria county
@JohnnyBone95 ok we were Liberty. Centerpoint or Entergy?
Thank you Dan for speaking for us that have no voice ❤❤
GREG ABBOTTS PENSION IF FAR MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOU HAVING POWER IN A HEAT WAVE!!!!!!!!!!!!😢😮😢
He was smiling happy in Taiwan 😢
Why hasn’t Greg Abbott come back to Texas?
What could be more important than being present for your citizens?
His own wallet is more important than Texans
Keep on giving guns out, whiner Danny Leon
This is not different than Alicia. We had power outages for more than ten days.
We don't care if you took a space 🚀 to these places you didn't bring lights with you so who cares
So, where's Ted?
Lobbying for Israel last I checked
Cancun?
🤭
In California
He is on vacation just like Ted Cruz did when we needed him.
Who cares we are still without lights. Dan when did you become so cold calculating of people. You have become so judgmental
That was truly shocking to me during this press conference. Condescending, arrogant, dismissive, NO Compassion for struggling Texans. The director of TDEM also lost my Respect today, with his CYA insinuations, just short of blaming & accusing like dan patrick did in this same 1 hr press conference.
I've said it earlier today, THEY think Texans are stupid. We are NOT. We KNOW when We're being lied to & manipulated.
Please take Care. ✌🏼💙✊🏼💙🙏🏼💙🐾
The city leaders needs to quit criticizing the electric company and those poor linesman and put on clothes and start climbing those poles the lights might get on faster.
Dan is a clown
I BET GREG ABBOTT IS NICE AND COZY, WHILE THE PEOPLE SUFFER!!!!!!! LET THEM EAT CAKE, RIGHT GREG!!!!😢😮😢
THESE "OFFICIALS" WILL RETIRE WITH WEALTH, WHILE THE INFRASTRUCTURE, THEY'RE IN CHARGE OF IS CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
💯 %
The usual 🙋🏿♂️ suspects are known to do this crimes all the time smh...
That is very childish... people really don't give a f about what happened with you. You are acting child, not governor.
Dont care...will are my lights coming on
Governor can we start work on building communities to deal with climate change?
Falling for the fear mongering money scheme.
Destroy HARP AND GREED
Politics instead of solutions. Texas has a track record of being unprepared of weather events.
OMG!!!---GET BIDEN OUT!!!
What does this have to do with President Biden?? He call the Governor of Texas Greg Abbott who is in Asia. Nor did he cut his trip short to attend to Texas business. Acting governor Dan Patrick and I do mean “acting” is just as useless as Greg Abbott. It’s always someone else’s fault. There is no real leadership in Texas. Vote out the clowns 🤡 Abbott, Patric, and Paxton
Drag Abbott with him. ❤
@@denisehenry3427 Like Abbot or any of them that are 'against' taking a baby's life---that's God's job, if it has to be.
“Acting”
Acting means pretending to be someone you're not.
@@REDPR poor acting at that
I agree this is not the time to be childish. Please show respect 🙌
I really like your professionalism
Let us think differently. …
Sounds like a bunch of excuses to me
Not electricity but bills not stopping
Thank you for your hard work
Very happy to see blunt, direct pushback against media questions and insinuations that serve no purpose other than exaggerating people's frustrations and anger.
Those people are frustrated i like to see how you would fair without electricity, food , or water. So here we go civil unrest.
Abbott should call all those immigrants, they'll make sure houston gets power back!!😂😂😂😂
This is why INFRASTRUCTURE and PREPAREDNESS is so IMPORTANT.
How long will it take for Joe to visit our disaster areas, if ever.
Aside from the lack of proper leadership during this natural disaster (obviously due to political party charades).. Everyone knows that we have to deal with this kind of stuff while living on the gulf coast. If you don't have power for days, just leave and go stay somewhere that has power. If you can't leave, call on a friend or neighbor for helps That's all there is to it. This should be a wake up call to people who are unprepared for hurricane season.
Make poles taller, the trees won't get but to a certain height. The trees would then be less likely to touch the wires.
All electric should be underground
pizza Places especially during the time of disaster can be really chaotic
Dan looks older than Biden 😂
Hilarious 😂
Always deflecting
Until you start fighting human smuggling… Houston will never win
They are too busy letting people cross the border to be concerned with any of that nonsense.
This guy is too emotional...
I’m trying to imagine what the talking points of those born and raised in the 1930s would’ve been. Dan is attempting to explain to you what is going on and it seems as though no one wants to hear it. Interesting. 😊
Sunday? What happened to Wednesday 🤦🙆🤷
Mind you the old man talking has all his lights and powe and food secured you can see it in his demeanor and by choice of word's the people are his last priority. He has no sympathy for what yall going threw it dont effect him or his buddies
This guy is avoiding the TRUTH ABOUT THE POWER COMPANY CUTTING CORNERS SO GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS HAVE A GREAT RETIREMENT 👍 👌 😢
They are private owned...its a business they have insurance to pay for it
Great job guys! Thank you for clearing up the misunderstandings. Let’s work together. Dems need to keep politics out of this!!!!
It's inspiring to see how Vermont, a poor state with an aging population, is taking action to prepare for climate change and floods.
Texas, on the other hand, a rich state with a young population, prefers to ignore climate change and throw federal money at their problems.
This happens every year! Why don't you secede already, I'm tired of paying for your hubris.
Where have you veen this kind of crime very common! Who's fault is it dan!!!!!!!😇🙏 prayers for officer and family❤
Houston same problems different day! Ridiculous 🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵
Stop only talking about Centerpoint! Talk about how bad Entergy is too!!!!
Its possible but either way dosent matter its working in there favor
They. Need. Help. Bad
Bro hates sideburns
You guys fumbled the ball 1213 years ago during one of the freezes then you Fumbled the ball again and in last freeze now you're fumbling the ball again after a cat 1 hurricane.
They fumble every chance they get. It's how they roll.
This is what happens when you depend on Big Daddy Gummit to save you. Have you learned nothing? Be prepared. There’s another storm coming, you can be sure. But help? Not so sure…
Where the f is your Governor.Stop lying
So not defending Dora the Explorer, but when you hire a community organizer to be your Emergency Management Professional instead of an actual Emergency Management Professional, misdirection and misinformation is all you can provide!
He also works security while all of this is happening
FFS the president will have to grant it. Oh no!
You talk of a Civil War if trump is Not re-elected but you can’t go A FULL WEEK WITHOUT POWER? 🧐