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RE: FCC Hurricane Michael after-action report
From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 15:48:17 -0400 (EDT)
On Mon, 13 May 2019, frnkblk () iname com wrote:
One of my takeaways from that article was that burying fiber underground could likely have avoided many/most of these fiber cuts, though I’m not familiar enough with the terrain to know how feasible that is.
Nature is more powerful than humans.In Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands, the hurricanes severely damaged essentially every type of infrastructure. Buried cables, aerial cables, microwave towers, cellular towers, satellite dishes, solar panels, primary and backup power stations, access roads, accesss airports, access seaports, broadcast radio/tv, cable TV systems, etc. etc. etc.
All the island backbone ring buried cable systems in PR experienced multiple cuts due to mudslides, bridge failures, and other restoration activites.
Immediately after the hurricanes, essentially every infrastructure damage assessment was 75% or worse, with most communications outside plant infrastructure 95% to 100% damaged.
When there is only light to moderate damage, independent repair efforts are faster because you avoid lots coodination meetings. But with the major damage in PR and USVI, the lack of coodination caused conflicting repair efforts and re-work for the first several months. It wasn't patch and move on, it was rebuild from scratch.
Current thread:
- Re: FCC Hurricane Michael after-action report, (continued)
- Re: FCC Hurricane Michael after-action report Mike Bolitho (May 11)
- Re: FCC Hurricane Michael after-action report Mel Beckman (May 11)
- RE: FCC Hurricane Michael after-action report frnkblk (May 13)
- Re: FCC Hurricane Michael after-action report Mike Bolitho (May 13)
- Re: FCC Hurricane Michael after-action report Rich Kulawiec (May 14)
- Re: FCC Hurricane Michael after-action report George Metz (May 14)
- Re: FCC Hurricane Michael after-action report Mark Andrews (May 14)
- Re: FCC Hurricane Michael after-action report Mike Hammett (May 15)
- Re: FCC Hurricane Michael after-action report Brandon Martin (May 15)
- Re: FCC Hurricane Michael after-action report Seth Mattinen (May 15)
- Re: FCC Hurricane Michael after-action report Mel Beckman (May 11)
- Re: FCC Hurricane Michael after-action report Mike Bolitho (May 11)
- RE: FCC Hurricane Michael after-action report Sean Donelan (May 15)