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Houston braces for hurricane season 2025 — but will the power really stay on?
CenterPoint donates generator to Northeast Houston center as hurricane season looms.
HOUSTON — Hurricane season begins on Sunday — and it’s bringing another round of uncertainty as many wonder whether electricity and infrastructure will hold up.
CenterPoint says they’ve listened to those concerns and have taken action. The company donated a generator to the Northeast Multi-Service Center near Tidwell and Homestead.
Some who live in Rosewood say the generator is great, but trees still crowd power lines and ditches remain choked with debris as hurricane season begins.
Hurricane Beryl did a number on the Rosewood community, and Oscar Greer says every other storm that’s blown this way has too.
“We’ve been concerned as always — the same thing always floods. The ditch is always backed up.”
He says signs of Beryl’s fury are still obvious, even with hurricane season set to start on Sunday.
And Greer wonders if CenterPoint’s plans will pan out when another storm comes.
“Basically, all they did was get us back online.”
This is the type of generator making its way to community centers. It’s the 17th of 21 promised generators.
“Last year, we heard the call for change,” said Keith Stephens with CenterPoint.
Recent storms have already tested some of CenterPoint’s improvements.
“We set ourselves a hard deadline of May 1 to get all of this done ahead of hurricane season.”
Rain Eaton lives in Northeast Houston and says decades of underinvestment aren’t easy to forget.
“Because time and time again, intentions are well-meaning, but the road to hell is paved with good intentions.”
Severe weather, she says, comes at this community’s detriment.
“It was very traumatic for all of Northeast Houston. And it’s definitely something that we need to pay more attention to and be more proactive,” said Eaton.
But for her, there is hope.
“It is detrimental that we do not ignore basic infrastructure repair and infrastructure maintenance in the city.”
CenterPoint says although it’s completed the first and second phases of its resiliency plan, the work is not done.
As for the remaining community generators, they plan to have them in place by the beginning of hurricane season — Sunday, June 1.