Power Struggle: Crew Pulled To Fix River Oaks
By Amy Davis
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But a CenterPoint insider told residents who live there, and KPRC Local 2, that it's exactly what happened."The pole climbers had their gear on. They were getting ready to go up the pole. They were stopped and they said they were redirected to go immediately to Bellaire," Marvin Herman said.Homeowners said the same trucks and crews had been in their neighborhood for several days.Then, at about 8:30 a.m. Thursday, they started packing up their equipment to leave five blocks short of restoring power to the entire neighborhood."Oh, I was ready to cry, you know. But I'm thinking, 'Well, it's probably a lot of expensive homes and stuff that they want. Somebody's yelling loud they want power,'" McGuire said.Just a few hours later, KPRC Local 2 found those trucks originally assigned to the Timberlakes Estates subdivision restoring power on the corner of Kirby Drive and Kipling.The CenterPoint insider said crews wanted to stay in Cypress and had only hours left until they finished that job."I think it's crap. You know, we're -- Bellaire's got water and sewer. We're out here ... everybody out here's on wells and septic. We don't have anything. If you don't have a generator out here, you're screwed," resident Ken Turner said.CenterPoint Energy told KPRC by phone that it is not unusual that the crew was dispatched to a new location even though the neighborhood was not fully restored.The energy company said it has to send crews to areas where it can get the greatest number of people back online in the shortest period of time. Sometimes that means small patches of some areas are in the dark a little longer."They were out in the area, and they should have finished their job. They shouldn't have gone off and left us like this," Shelly Johnson said.The CenterPoint spokeswoman did not look up the scenario in Timberlake Estates to find out exactly what directions crews in that area were given. She just gave KPRC an explanation that she said is likely what happened in this case.







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