KHOU 11 Investigates reported Monday that unlike in some past hurricanes, CenterPoint did not stage mutual assistance workers in Houston before Beryl made landfall.
HOUSTON — Acting Texas Governor Dan Patrick pledged Tuesday that“Right now Jeremy , if they made mistakes, we don’t know if they did or not, if they made mistakes beforehand, than that will be addressed by the PUC , that’s their job, and by the state legislature,” Patrick said at a news briefing at the Galveston County Office of Emergency Management.
When pressed for more details on those locations, Oshodi said she would look into that and provide an update. In a subsequent email, she wrote “crews were positioned in locations where they would be safe when the storm hit.” How many of those resources had actually arrived Tuesday afternoon was unclear. In separate news conferences and in writing, the company gave three conflicting numbers—5,300 mutual aid workers, 7,500 and the full 12,000 it requested.
“I’ll simply say this, that any thought that people were surprised that this storm would come to Houston, is shocking to me,” Patrick said.When will power be restored in Houston? CenterPoint says hardest-hit areas could experience extended outages
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