The family told ABC13 they realized issues brewing since the 2021 freeze. Now in Houston's extreme heat, they said, 'We literally have to drive around in the car just to stay cool.'
Families near the Grand Parkway and Rayford Road in Montgomery County continue facing issues with CenterPoint Energy amid Texas' heat.Emeka Mordi and his family live near the Grand Parkway and Rayford Road in a Montgomery County home they purchased in 2019."The first time we realized we had a problem was when we had that freeze , and the lights went out for a couple of days," Mordi said. "After that, it's been consistent power outages.
Ten of those messages were sent this summer alone, which equates to more than an outage per week in a year where 15 residents of neighboring Harris County have died of heat-related issues, according to the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences. Mordi was the only person willing to speak to Eyewitness News on-camera for this story, but neighbors echoed his sentiments and said the outages have caused their appliances to quit working.
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