Serious question: why isn’t Centerpoint required to comp our spoiled groceries?
Like many people, my power has been out since around 3:00 AM. I have a fridge full of groceries that are now ruined. It had barely started raining and I heard a huge explosion, presumably the transformer next to my house, and the power went out. Again it was barely raining. These are not conditions that mean a power outage is unavoidable.
It's Centerpoint who mismanages this city's power infrastructure, they should have to cough up a decent subsidy to cover what's in our fridge every time this happens. Even a fixed amount like $100 or so would go a long way. Like any time they f**k up so badly that the power goes out for a customer for more than 4 hours they should automatically have to give that person $100. This could incentivize them to actually reinvest their grotesque profits into semi-functional power infrastructure instead of all that money going to their CEO or whomever.
Every year my power is out for multiple days (at least) and I waste hundreds of dollars replacing ruined groceries. Other cities do not go through this. Also obviously they should not be a private company.
Note to the mods – I searched the subreddit for this question and I couldn't find anyone asking this before, but my apologies if I somehow missed a thread on the same subject.
submitted by /u/Sam_Kuzel
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