A team of 350 Alabama Power linemen and support personnel, as well as 300 contractors, have worked around the clock this week to help restore power for customers in the Houston, Texas, area ravaged by Hurricane Beryl.
And residents there have been just as diligent in expressing their appreciation – in person, on makeshift signs, in phone calls and by posting dozens of messages to Alabama Power’s Facebook page.
In just 24 hours, one Facebook post about Alabama Power crews assisting in Houston had more than 4,500 “likes,” was shared more than 500 times and had almost 1,000 comments.
“Thank you for your sacrifice from Crosby, TX!! We see you, we appreciate you and we thank you!!”
“Much love and thanks from Deer Park Texas, you guys are the best!!”
“Love you guys!! Thank you for coming to our city (Houston)ALL of you are life savers!!”
“God bless you all! You got our power restored yesterday in La Porte! Stay safe!”
“Thanks for all the men and women from Alabama power for restoring our power here in East Houston yesterday evening! Stay cool and be safe! God bless!!!!💪🏼”
“Alabama Power restored my parents power yesterday evening!👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️ Thank you so much! God bless you all and stay safe!”
“Thanks for coming to help us, deeply, deeply appreciate your sacrifice of leaving family and home to get us back on our feet.”
“I live in Houston and have had my power restored, just want to say thank y’all for coming! Y’all take care and God bless❤️ ”
“Can’t thank you heros enough for helping us in Texas!! You are so appreciated!!! Be safe!”
“Thank you Alabama Power for coming to help the Houston and surrounding areas. We cannot express enough how much we appreciate all your sacrifices to help us get Power back as quickly as possible. Thank each and everyone of you from the bottom of our hearts. May God Bless y’all.🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼”
“LaPorte Texas loves Alabama power!!!!”
“Superheroes”
“Thank you Alabama Power. I’ve seen you all over the houston area including LA Porte, Pasadena and Pearland. Thank you again and God bless you all.”
“Thank you to the good people of Alabama and Alabama Power for coming to help Crosby here in The Great State of Texas! We appreciate all your hard work away from your homes and family. Much love and gratitude❤️❤️”
“From a grateful Texan, thank you guys and gals for all your efforts and time away from your families to help us out down here. I know there’s a lot of negativity floating around, but the other 99% of us greatly appreciate everything.
👊🏼”
@alabamapower THANK YOU for restoring my power after losing it in Hurricane Beryl here in Houston for 3 &1/2 days!! YOU ARE AWESOME!!! pic.twitter.com/9wuG17x1uo
— NHeard (@NHeard10) July 12, 2024
Utilities from around the country, including Alabama Power, are part of a network of mutual assistance for restoration efforts after severe weather. Last August, Alabama Power offered mutual assistance to restore power for customers in Georgia following Hurricane Idalia. This week’s efforts in Texas are in support of CenterPoint Energy after Hurricane Beryl left almost 2.3 million of its customers without power.
Thank you ALABAMA ❤️❤️🙏👍 pic.twitter.com/ZaAwtyHfgt
— Anthony (@Anthony93516773) July 10, 2024
Much of Texas remains under a heat advisory with daily highs through the weekend forecast to be in the upper 90s and a heat index above 100 degrees, giving even greater urgency to getting the lights back on.
(Alabama Power)
The Alabama Power Storm Team arrived Tuesday and has been working tirelessly to restore power and remained in good spirits and motivated Friday to contribute their skills to the restoration effort, according to an update from the Storm Team.
“Our Storm Team continues to make progress,” the report said. “Power has been restored to over 1 million customers with a little over 1 million customers still without power. CenterPoint has a goal of having an additional 400,000 customers restored by the end of day Friday, July 12, and 350,000 more customers restored by the end of day Sunday, July 14.”
One of those customers, Donna Radin, who lives in the Deer Park area just outside Houston, said she had been without power since 5:30 a.m. Monday. In a phone call to Alabama Power headquarters, she said Alabama Power crews restored her service Thursday afternoon.
“Alabama Power has been working around the clock in awful, hot conditions under heat advisories,” she said. “Their crews are nice and kind and have excellent manners. They never missed a ‘yes, ma’am’ or ‘no, ma’am.’”
Radin said she recognizes that the crews are away from their families and working in less-than-desirable conditions, but she is “very, very grateful.”
“They represented Alabama Power so very well,” she said, “and I wanted to make sure someone knew about it.”
Courtesy of Alabama News Center.
