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


From: "Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 13:37:40 -0400




Begin forwarded message:

From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: September 13, 2017 at 11:58:41 PM EDT
To: nanog () nanog org
Subject: Re: Hurricane Irma: Florida, Puerto Rico and U.S. VI


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






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