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Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of
From: Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog () vaxination ca>
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 04:15:44 -0400
On 2017-10-02 02:58, Wayne Bouchard wrote:
Well, that's why recovery efforts in broad scale events like this have to go from a central point to pushing a perimiter farther and farther out. Create a habital, functional zone where workers can return to both to organize and recouperate and then go back out and push farther afield.
Logic yes. But... I have read stories of sick people in shelters dying because of lack of electricity, lack of O2. Stories of FEMA sending water/food for only half of population of a village. This is where telecom plays a role. If the shelter had comms, it could have told mayor "we need generator, we need 5 tabks of O2 for sick people". Mayor could have sent request to FEMA ASAP. My **guess** is that by the time FEMA got the requests, it was too late and people died. In hindsight, every village should have been given a sat-phone BEFORE the hurricane, Ajit Pai complained about iPhone not having FM radio. But it is more important for reverse communication from villages to headquarters/FEMA to be able to transmit urgent needs, status reports, how much food/water needed etc. I suspect that if such comms had happened right off the bat, they would have known that waiting for roads to be cleared wasn't sufficient and taken a different philosophy for immediate help. I think that disaster planners have made wrong assumptions about cellular and terrestrial communications being robust enough to survive cyclones.
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- Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of Javier J (Oct 01)
- Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of Jason Baugher (Oct 01)
- Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of Jean-Francois Mezei (Oct 01)
- Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of Javier J (Oct 01)
- Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of Jean-Francois Mezei (Oct 01)
- Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of Wayne Bouchard (Oct 01)
- Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of Jean-Francois Mezei (Oct 02)
- Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of Jason Baugher (Oct 01)
- Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of valdis . kletnieks (Oct 01)
- Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of Brooks Bridges (Oct 01)
- Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of Sean Donelan (Oct 02)
- Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of Sean Donelan (Oct 02)
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- Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of Javier J (Oct 02)
- Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of Sean Donelan (Oct 03)
- Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of Sean Donelan (Oct 03)
- Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of Jean-Francois Mezei (Oct 05)
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