Nearly a million people in Houston without power due to storm

[YoungSinister]

When I had my EV charger installed in my garage, they also ran 240V wiring back to a Generac neutral switching transfer switch that is wired to my main 200 amp breaker panel for the whole house. When an outage happens, I can plug my truck up to the switch, and the whole house runs from my electric F-150. I've run the house in an outage that only lasted for just over 5 hours and that 5 hours took my battery from 72 percent, to 71. I've been waiting for an outage that lasts longer, just to see how efficient this system works. We love it though.

My brotha….good looking out!!!!

 

[God-Of-War-420]

When I had my EV charger installed in my garage, they also ran 240V wiring back to a Generac neutral switching transfer switch that is wired to my main 200 amp breaker panel for the whole house. When an outage happens, I can plug my truck up to the switch, and the whole house runs from my electric F-150. I've run the house in an outage that only lasted for just over 5 hours and that 5 hours took my battery from 72 percent, to 71. I've been waiting for an outage that lasts longer, just to see how efficient this system works. We love it though.

And this is as bad as this technology will ever be, imagine in 10-15 years? But no, let's bring back rickshaws! nothing beats human powered vehicles!!!

 

[Mixd]

Not incredible but down to 520k without power

 

[4 Dimensional]

NWS confirmed that the storm system was a derecho.

wiki
"A derecho is a widespread, long-lived, straight-line wind storm that is associated with a fast-moving group of severe thunderstorms known as a mesoscale convective system. Derechos can cause hurricane-force winds, heavy rains, and flash floods."

 

[DC_Dude]

Yeah seems like it hit the downtown area and the northside....My homie in Houston lives about 20 minutes south of Houston and had zero damages. Didn't lose power either.

 

[spider705]

Man FINALLY checking in...

I don't know wtf was going on with bgol but I couldn't post shit. The whole message box was gone and the POST REPLY button was all that was there.

Anyway me n the fam are good, haven't had power since 7pm Thursday evening. We live in The Heights, so it's a thousand fuckin trees and it's like every one of them came tumbling down. I mean some of these trees were HUGE. I saw one where the trunk was well over 2 feet wide. I'll post a few pictures in a minute, I'm about to head up to my job and check on the building.

 

[spider705]

This was one tree in my neighborhood... you can see the roots that were pulled up due to the wind are like 4ft - 5ft tall...

I lost count but there's at least a dozen trees that size or bigger that have all been knocked over.

 

[Mixd]

I haven't seen the numbers move since last night of how many are still out in Harris.
Either they aren't doing anything today or not updating the website but even Centerpoint site seems like no new activity. Shows stuck at 520k

Harris Power Outages

PowerOutage.us tracks, records, and aggregates power outages across the United States.

poweroutage.us

CenterPoint Energy - Outage Center

gis.centerpointenergy.com

 

[Mixd]

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[easy_b]

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That shit, blew out windows and blew over big ass trees, so I am not surprised by this. Oh, and hurricane season starts in two weeks.

 

[easy_b]

NWS confirmed that the storm system was a derecho.

wiki
"A derecho is a widespread, long-lived, straight-line wind storm that is associated with a fast-moving group of severe thunderstorms known as a mesoscale convective system. Derechos can cause hurricane-force winds, heavy rains, and flash floods."

Basically, this was a severe windstorm with the equivalent of a tornado EF one or EF two

 

[meilmarc]

I haven't seen the numbers move since last night of how many are still out in Harris.
Either they aren't doing anything today or not updating the website but even Centerpoint site seems like no new activity. Shows stuck at 520k

Harris Power Outages

PowerOutage.us tracks, records, and aggregates power outages across the United States.

poweroutage.us

CenterPoint Energy - Outage Center

gis.centerpointenergy.com

Bad thing about it, is that its hot and humid as fuck today and the temps are slowly going up next week.

 

[keith6]

Place governor hot wheels on a treadmill to generate electricity.

 

[Mixd]

That shit, blew out windows and blew over big ass trees, so I am not surprised by this. Oh, and hurricane season starts in two weeks.

Of the major storms I've been through, Ike and Harvey, never seen the large power lines go down, many have said it online. Some have gone down but not this many that i know of, which is why power to be restored may take time.

 

[Mixd]

I haven't seen the numbers move since last night of how many are still out in Harris.
Either they aren't doing anything today or not updating the website but even Centerpoint site seems like no new activity. Shows stuck at 520k

Harris Power Outages

PowerOutage.us tracks, records, and aggregates power outages across the United States.

poweroutage.us

CenterPoint Energy - Outage Center

gis.centerpointenergy.com

Numbers just dropped to 430k

 

[Mixd]

 

[spider705]

I look to be in the 20th - 22nd zone...
Fckn great

 

[Mixd]

More progress, 333k still without power

 

[easy_b]

More progress, 333k still without power

Oh, that’s not all they have to worry about

 

[Mixd]

Oh, that’s not all they have to worry about

Gaslighting. Most of those pics are not from Houston. And temps here will be in the 80's all this week

 

[Camille]

My sis was still without power as of last night. I haven't spoken with her today. She tends to work double shifts.

Edit: She's still without power.

 

[SamSneed]

Man we were ok

We hit up Texas Roadhouse down 45 it’s my favorite one

The drive back was like any other rain storm I drove in

We got home and took a nap, house was icy, we never lost power

 

[SamSneed]

A tree fell on my bros mini van

But that’s what he get for lettin his gal get that shit

He lives next to her moms house, lol

 

[LordSinister]

Not a chance in hell. Solar and electric are too "woke" for Texas.

Exactly. These fuckers were blaming solar for our 1880's style power grid. Backwards cacs are the worst. I swear we won't have solar until they can do some Mr. Burns shit and steal sunlight from us.

 

[Big Tex]

Man we were ok

We hit up Texas Roadhouse down 45 it’s my favorite one

The drive back was like any other rain storm I drove in

We got home and took a nap, house was icy, we never lost power

45 north or south? This will affect how I think of you.

 

[SamSneed]

45 north or south? This will affect how I think of you.

45 south, I like drivin down to Bay Area, lots of new spots bein built

Wife like macys down there

 

[moblack]

Did any of ya'll check on me? I'm good

 

[ThaBurgerPimp]

 

[Camille]

My sis said the power company is estimating she'll be out until Wednesday.

 

[spider705]

Fuck this shit I'm going to a hotel

 

[Llano]

My mom lives in Cypress & she just got back power a couple hours ago. I live in Missouri city so we were good over here.

 

[spider705]

Fuck this shit I'm going to a hotel

Intercontinental Hotel on Main it is...

fuck it if imma be cooped up in a hotel I may as well get a nice one

 

[Mixd]

Down to 229k without power

 

[Mixd]

Down to 229k without power

 

[spider705]

Down to 229k without power

1 of the 229k... fckn bullshit