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From the New York Times, here is a breakdown by time and state of the more than 6 million customers affected with Hurricane Sandy power outages this morning based on information updates from 35 major power companies: For more details on the impact see the New York...
With power mostly restored now - and apologies to those still waiting, this will be our final update in our New Orleans After Isaac series. Hurricane Isaac was a Category 1 hurricane. By wind speed, it was barely even that strong, with top sustained winds of 80 mph....
Real progress is finally visible today. While many are still without power, there is surely a light at the end of the tunnel for those homes and businesses still waiting. A new color is peaking through now on the map: green!
If you look carefully today, you can see some improvements since Isaac struck. The map is much more blue than red - clearly, the outages are being reduced. Entergy had said they would have power back to 90% of those "ready for power" by September 6. Hopefully this...
Progress in recovering power is moving slowly. Today Entergy reports they "expect to make significant progress today and through the weekend restoring power." They expect to restore power to 90% of customers "who can take power" by September 6. But the statsu today...
The current, as of 10a.m. on Thursday August 30, status of power outages in New Orleans is shown below. Entergy, the local utility, has 10,000 workers deployed to restore power. Legend: Blue = 1 to 50, Yellow = 51 to 250 and Red = 251 to 1,000 power outages. Red lines...
Here is a live view of wind speeds as reported hint.fm/wind. This image shows the measured sustained wind speed in New Orleans at 10:00a.m. today. It has been a busy couple of days for Global Data Vault, but things are going well. As the storm approached, we...
Hurricanes are expensive and deadly. Yahoo Finance reported that 7 of the 10 most costly U. S. weather disasters over the past 30 years were hurricanes. But the good news about hurricanes – if there could be “good news” about them – is that they are generally...
Uh, yes. The good news is that some smart phones are safer than others. But that also depends on how you’ve cared for it. For example, Apple’s wildly popular iPhone is built on a restrictive platform that protects it from being vulnerable to viruses and malware being...
The Cascadia subduction zone is a 600-mile-long offshore earthquake fault that runs from northern California to southern British Columbia. And that fault has a serious tale to tell. Geologists have found sand deposits up and down the Pacific coast along this zone, the...