Repair crews face threats in Houston by those still without power a week after Beryl

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https://www.npr.org/2024/07/17/nx-s1-5043279/beryl-houston-repair-crews-face-threats-still-without-power

Repair crews face threats in Houston by those still without power a week after Beryl

JULY 17, 2024 2:47 AM ET
By The Associated Press

HOUSTON — Drawn guns. Thrown rocks. Threatening messages. Houston's prolonged outages following Hurricane Beryl has some fed-up and frustrated residents taking out their anger on repair workers who are trying to restore power across the city.

The threats and confrontations have prompted police escorts, charges in at least two cases, and pleas from authorities and local officials to leave the linemen alone so they can work.

Beryl knocked out power to nearly 3 million people in Texas — with most of those in the Houston area — after making landfall July 8. The Category 1 storm unleashed heavy rain and winds that uprooted trees and damaged homes and businesses along the Texas Coast and parts of Southeast Texas. State authorities have reported 18 deaths from Beryl. In the Houston area, some have been due to heat exposure following the loss of power, according to the medical examiner's office in Harris County.

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[Boomerproud]

1. Unbelievable they would attack these workers.

Oh wait, it's totally believable.

[tanyev]

2. Threaten the ones trying to fix the things you're angry about.

Jeenyus.

[thucythucy]

3. And then vote for Republicans whose policies

helped create this mess.

I know Houston is a blue spot in a red state, but something tells me the folks making these threats are predominantly MAGA.