By Travis McGee My condolences for any lives lost and my sympathy for the entire city of Houston for enduring another nightmare. Just one month into the hurricane Season and Houston has experienced two major storms thus far, Derecho and Beryl. However, the preparation for past and present storms remains the same even though the categories of the storms may change the preparation or should I say the lack of remains the same. Houston has had 2 major tests in less than 2 months and have flunked both of them pretty bad. I’m not saying we can stop God’s Work, but I am saying we can prepare for it. Are we really Houston Strong or should Houston infrastructures and Hurricane preparation be stronger from past and present experiences? The preparation has to be proactive 365/24/7 before, aft er, and during hurricane season even though hurricane season is from son is from June to November (6 months the preparation has to be year around. The people of Houston are resilient, but they really don’t have much choice. We The People are strong and Houston is just very fortunate that the people are finally starting to question the preparation of our local government and main electricity provider CenterPoint. If Center-Point provides electricity for 2.6 million in the Houston area and over 2 million were without lights, that’s a horrible stat considering Houston is the energy capital of the world but can’t keep its own lights on. As a matter of fact, Houston is ranked #2 behind Los Angeles for being the least prepared city in the U.S. I’m sure if you ask any Houstonian, they’d say they’d rather be comfortable at their own home with AC, water and ice being produced by the utilities they pay for monthly. Rain, sleet snow or Hurricane, they still have to pay bills and taxes. Houston hasn’t been a “Clutch City” since the 1994-95 Houston Rockets you know when they had the “DREAM” winning back-to-back championships but, since then we have been experiencing storms before the storms that has been absolute night-mares mainly due to lack […]
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