Houston Residents Attack, Poison Utility Workers Restoring Power After Hurricane – Reports

Linemen hospitalized with fentanyl poisoning, others beaten, held hostage by armed men

Multiple utility workers have been hospitalized in Houston after attacks from local residents amid heroic efforts to restore power to the region following last week’s hurricane impact, according to reports.

Hurricane Beryl hit Southeast Texas on Monday as a Category 1 hurricane before weakening to a tropical storm and then a tropical depression.

Nearly 3 million residents in the Houston metro area were left without power, prompting line workers from across the U.S. to surge the region to aid restoration efforts.

Incredibly, linemen have been reporting a slew of physical and verbal attacks in recent days, and at least one suspect has been charged with aggravated assault after allegedly pointing a gun at a utility worker over the weekend.

One lineman posted a video on social media showing a lunatic battering his truck with a metal rod in the middle of a busy highway.

Last night, I posted videos of linemen who came from all over the country to fix the power grid in Houston. They stated that they have been attacked, beaten up, given fentanyl-laced water, and some were even threatened with guns.

Here is a crazed man attacking a lineman’s truck… pic.twitter.com/F3FvBj9pSW

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A utility worker from outside Texas shared a variety of horror stories from the past week on TikTok — including a revelation that a colleague was hospitalized after ingesting water laced with fentanyl that had been given to him by local residents.

“What the hell are you guys doing right now to the men who came down, who left their families, to come help you?” another lineman asked in a video post on social media. “There are linemen leaving right now and there are linemen that will never be back to Texas. And let me tell you — I’m one of them. You’ll never see me in Houston.”

“The most dangerous part of the job of being a lineman is supposed to be the electricity — the thing you can’t see. It’s not supposed to be the public.”

Utility workers have been beaten, forced to evacuate staging areas, and in one case, 20 linemen were held hostage by armed men, he said.

“We’ve had guys who have had guns pulled on them, we’ve got guys who have had rocks picked up and slung at them. I had a crew out in Sugarland, they had guys with AK-47′s standing across from them. Never pointed it at them but menacing them,” Ed Allen, business manager for IBEW Local 66, told KPRC 2.

“I’ve had several companies already tell me, ‘Ed, if it doesn’t stop, we are going to get in our trucks and drive off.’”

“In 42 years in this industry, working here in this community, I have never seen a response like this from the community,” Allen continued.

NEW: Lineman being attacked and threatened while working to restore power to the Houston area.

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— I Meme Therefore I Am ?? (@ImMeme0) July 16, 2024

State and local authorities are urging Houston residents to support utility workers and are warning of “enhanced charges for those who threaten or commit violence against linemen.”

InfoWars will monitor this situation as it develops.

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