Hurricane Irma: Florida, Puerto Rico and U.S. VI

Thu Sep 14 03:58:41 UTC 2017

Disclosure note: AT&T and Comcast public relations folks have been 
sending information about what they are doing for disaster recovery. I've 
included some of their information.

>From various official sources (FEMA, Dept. of Energy, FCC, NOAA, etc).

Fatalities (FEMA)
    Georgia: 2
    Florida: 12
    South Carolina: 2
    Puerto Rico: 3
    U.S. Virgin Islands: 4
Note: FEMA is slower than media reports about U.S. fatalities

Non-US fatalities (AP/Reuters)
    Caribbean fatalities: Anguilla (4), Barbuda (1), British Virgin
    Islands (5), Cuba (10), French Territories (10), St. Maarten (4),
    Haiti (1)

Electric Power (DOE)

Florida: 3,568,499 customer outages (35% of total state customers)
Georgia: 451,033 customer outages (11% of total state customers)
South Carolina: 58,972 customer outages (2% of total state customers)
North Carolina: 24,445 customer outages (<1% of total state customers)
Puerto Rico: 117,244  customers (8% of total customers)
U.S. Virgin Islands:
   The airport and hospital are still energized. Besides a few smaller
   areas, most customers on St. John and St. Thomas are without
   power. Restoration efforts will continue as USVI WAPA works to get
   critical facilities reenergized on the two islands.

Water (FEMA)

      U.S. Virgin Islands: 341,000 people without potable water
      Puerto Rico: 61,980 people without potable water

Public Safety
     Hospitals (FEMA)
  	Florida: 11 closed, 204 healthcare facilities evacuated
  	Puerto Rico: 1 closed, 6 on generator power
  	U.S. VI: 1 closed and evacuated

     NOAA Weather Radio (NOAA)
  	Florida: 6 out of 32 stations (18%) out of service
  	Georgia: 7 out of 29 stations (24%) out of service
  	U.S. VI: 1 out of 1 station (100%) out of service

     Public Safety Answering Points (9-1-1 centers) (FCC)
  	Florida: 29 impacted (4 out of service, 9 partial service, 7 
re-routed with ALI, 8 re-routed without ALI)
 	Georgia: 5 impacted (1 re-routed with ALI, 3 re-routed without 
ALI)
  	U.S. VI: 2 impacted, without ALI/ANI

Cable and Wireline systems (FCC)

1,040 switching centers (cable headends and central offices) out of 
service. Unknown how many are isolated, damaged or just without power.

8,190,407 subscribers out of service in Alabama, Florida and Georgia; not 
including Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands.

According to Comcast: All comcast's miami-dade and broward facilities are 
on generator power. Comcast is deploy portable generators in 
neighborhoods to re-charge outside plant. Comcast has no network access 
beyond Marthon in the Florida Keys, but has crews ready when the area is 
accessible.

Wireless Service (FCC)

      Alabama: less 1% cell sites out of service
      Florida: 18.1% cell sites out of service (3 counties over 50% OOS)
      Georgia: 5.3% cell sites out of service
      Puerto Rico: 10.1% cell sites out of service
      U.S. VI: 55% cell sites out of service (St. John - 9 out of 10 OOS, 
St. Thomas 38 out of 57 OOS)

According to AT&T: deployed 6 portable, satellite connected cell on trucks 
in the Florida Keys (Stock Island, Key West and Marathon and 2 satellite 
connected cell on trucks in Naples, Florida. The AT&T National Disaster 
Recovery Team has over 20 units deployed throughout Florida (don't know 
what that means, but sounded good).

Broadcast (FCC)

     Television: 10 stations out of service
     Radio: 39 stations out of service