Hurricane Ida updates

[Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>]

Two 19-year-old linemen died in an electrocution accident in Jefferson 
County, Alabama assisting with storm recovery.  Cause under investigation.

at least 66 deaths confirmed:
25 in New Jersey (at least 8 died in vehicle flooding),
17 in New York (at least 11 died in basement apartment flooding),
12 in Louisiana (4 died from CO poisoning),
5 in Pennsylvania,
2 in Mississippi,
2 in Alabama,
1 in Maryland,
1 in Virginia,
1 in Connecticut (state police officer vehicle flooding)

Power outages (poweroutage.us)

756,173 Louisiana
9,615 Pennsylvania
7,256 Mississippi

Entergy New Orleans no expects most power to be restored by September 8, 
2021.  Reminder, Puerto Rico is still experiencing rolling blackouts 
after 2017 hurricanes destroyed its power grid.


There were over 374 Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) issued nation-wide 
between August 26, 2021 (initial Hurricane warnings) and September 2, 
2021.  I'm still digging into how many WEA messages are related to 
Hurricane Ida (HUW event codes) versus other severe weather events 
elsewhere (e.g. FRW event codes - wildfire warnings in California).

Remember your Roku, Amazon Firestick, Google TV, etc. streaming devices 
don't alert you to emergency warnings.  Amazon Alexa does have an 
option to activate severe weather warnings on its Echo/Echo Show devices.

Wireless Emergency Alert messages by EAS event code (codes don't appear in 
the message itself)

Event   Count
CAE     7       Child Abduction
CDW     1       Civil Danger
CEM     3       Civil Emergency
DSW     3       Dust Storm
EVI     11      Immediate Evacuation
EWW     4       Extreme Winde
FFW     102     Flash Flood
FRW     10      Fire Warning
HMW     1       Hazardous Material
HUW     47      Hurricane
LAE     3       Local Area Emergency
LEW     5       Law Enforcement Warning
SPW     1       Shelter-in-Place
SSW     29      Storm Surge
SVR     7       Severe Thunderstorm
TOR     142     Tornado

Grand Total     376



The FCC disaster reporting is limited to only 3 states (AL, LA, MS)

2 public safety answering points (9-1-1) partially re-routed

FCC is not reporting any other states.


Wireless providers had open roaming and waiving overage charges through 
Friday. I don't know how much longer they will keep open roaming 
activated.

20% cell sites in Louisiana out of service (statewide average)
Louisiana counties: 55% of Plaquemines, 52% of LaFourche

1.4% in Alabama, 0.8% in Mississippi.
FCC not reporting any other states.


Cable and wireless outages (subscribers) in AL, LA, MS.

1,119 Alabama,
427,587 Louisiana,
2,157 Mississippi

FCC not reporting any other states.


2 TV, 9 FM and 4 AM stations reported out of service in AL, LA, MS.

FCC not reporting any other states.