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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sun Jul 14, 2024, 05:53 PM Jul 2024

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott demands answers as customers remain without power after Beryl [View all]

DALLAS (AP) — With around 350,000 homes and businesses still without power in the Houston area almost a week after Hurricane Beryl hit Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott on Sunday said he's demanding an investigation into the response of the utility that serves the area as well as answers about its preparations for upcoming storms.

“Power companies along the Gulf Coast must be prepared to deal with hurricanes, to state the obvious,” Abbott said at his first news conference about Beryl since returning to the state from an economic development trip to Asia.

While CenterPoint Energy has restored power to about 1.9 million customers since the storm hit on July 8, the slow pace of recovery has put the utility, which provides electricity to the nation’s fourth-largest city, under mounting scrutiny over whether it was sufficiently prepared for the storm that left people without air conditioning in the searing summer heat.

Abbott said he was sending a letter to the Public Utility Commission of Texas requiring it to investigate why restoration has taken so long and what must be done to fix it. In the Houston area, Beryl toppled transmission lines, uprooted trees and snapped branches that crashed into power lines.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-gov-greg-abbott-demands-215440946.html

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oh FUCK YOU ABBOTT Skittles Jul 2024 #1
So he's upset duncang Jul 2024 #2
Exactly. The common thread is money trickling UP into B.See Jul 2024 #9
I'll always remember Abbott fondly... npk Jul 2024 #3
I think that was our last governor Rick Perry MagickMuffin Jul 2024 #4
Oh dear, maybe I got the two of them confused npk Jul 2024 #5
Well I can understand they're made outta the same whole cloth MagickMuffin Jul 2024 #6
Hey, Abbooooott! Kid Berwyn Jul 2024 #7
Look in the mirror pinhead duckworth969 Jul 2024 #8
hey abbott, you fuckwad: gopiscrap Jul 2024 #10
You Want To Know Who's To Blame? Deep State Witch Jul 2024 #11
Fuck off. SamKnause Jul 2024 #12
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