Main electric transmission towers collapsed--New Orleans at 11% Internet connectivity

Mon Aug 30 18:37:34 UTC 2021

My concern is what will happen with ILA sites that traverse through the Orleans parish and others that are going to be without electricity for many weeks to come. Eight transmission circuits went into cascading failure last eve. While not all physically damaged, it will time to assess and begin a controlled restoration to balance. In the meantime, fuel will deplete at remote sites causing them to fail. A lot of capacity that serves the south central and southwestern US traverses through Louisiana. 

J~

> On Aug 30, 2021, at 10:13, Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com> wrote:
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> Unlike other utilities, I have not seen any outage reports directly from the major telecommunications companies serving Louisiana and New Orleans.
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> 9-1-1 out of service in three parishes (Orleans, Jefferson, St. Tammany).
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> 100% of power is out in 4 parishes, over 80% power out in 14 parishes.
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> Many anedoctal reports of cell and telecommunications outages in southeastern Louisiana.
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> Netblocks reports 89% network connectivity outage in New Orleans. IODA.CADA.ORG reports 66% network connectivity outage in Louisiana.
> BGP route annoucements is stable, which likely indicates major backbones are not damaged (or they don't have backbone infrastructure in the region).
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> The major wireless providers have announced they are waiving the usual overage and billing charges for zip codes affected by Hurricane Ida.  No direct outage details from telecommunications and cable providers yet.
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> FCC activated DIRS over the weekend, so we should be seeing the initial FCC report late Monday afternoon.