Fwd: Hurricane Frances impacts
Oki all, Since a few of us are affected by this (Michael and Monte), here is one operational report from the NANOG list. Eric ------- Forwarded Message Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 18:20:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Hurricane Frances impacts Since the FCC no longer makes outage reports public, folks will have to obtain their information from other sources. The networks in Broward, Palm Beach, Martin, Brevard counties appear to be the most impacted. Cellular had problems due to wireless sites being without power. The wireless industry brought in 500 new generators in advance of the hurricane, but needed to wait until the hurricane passed before sending them out to the cell sites. Miami and Orlando also have sites down due to power issues and connectivity to local carriers. The various local access line providers in Florida, Florida has a lot of tiny LATAs and phone companies, report some access lines are down but haven't published any counts. Cable networks have the same issues with local cable service. No reports of damage to telephone central offices or cable headends. Due to power outages and local access network problems, bank networks and cash machines are out of service in most of the affected counties. No reports of problems to any NAPs, POPs, data centers or fiber trunks. They generally have permanent generators. So if you have local connectivity, Internet access is working. Streaming audio/video from Florida television and radio stations over the Internet did not have any problems. Some WiFi providers are once again offering free WiFi service in the affected counties, if you can reach a working hotspot (with local power and local network connectivity). ------- End of Forwarded Message
I'd forgotten that Ken is in Florida ... more network operators news from nanog: Update: gas #1
Any details on the status of natural gas lines in FL, and approximately how many facilities use such for generator power vs diesel?
Natural gas is available in most parts of Florida. Like most utilities, service continues until disrupted. Once disrupted, repairs follow the typical priority order (utility, emergency services, television/radio stations, others). Natural gas pipelines require various compressor stations throughout the pipeline system. The Florida governor has issued an order to regulate gas supplies in the state. It gives emergency workers, military operations and cleanup crews priority for the next 7 days. The Florida Highway Patrol will provide escorts for tanker truks. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection is tasked with coordinating fuel distribution. The US Environmental Protection Agency has waved certain clean air fuel forumalation requirements to permit the use of fuel from other states. Update #2 Sprint reports 15,000 customers affected in its service areas (generally central florida). Bell South reports 7596 trouble reports in in its service areas (generally eastern florida). I haven't seen any numbers from Verizon yet. For comparison, after Hurricane Charley 250,000 Sprint customers were without service according to automated monitoring systems, and 25,000 Verizon customers were without service. Wireless/Cellular (from Florida's EOC website) Cingular: 93% of normal AT&T(Ft. Lauderdale/Miami): 82% AT&T(Ft. Myers): 97% AT&T(Daytona Beach) 96% AT&T(Polk): 97% AT&T(West Palm Beach): 38% Nextel: 85% T-Mobile: 75% Alltell: 96% Sprint(Miami): 76% Sprint(Orlando): 81% Sprint(Jacksonville): 98% Sprint(Tampa): 98% Sprint(Ft. Myers): 98% Verizon: 85%
Just digging ourselves out of the trees and garbage all over the place. Thanks for the message. Monte Cahn Founder/CEO Monte@Moniker.com Monte@DomainSystems.com O - 954-984-8445 F - 954-969-9155 Moniker.com - ICANN Accredited Corporate Domain Management Services DomainSystems.com - Domain Sales & After-market Services CoolHandle.com - World Class Hosting and Email Solutions -----Original Message----- From: owner-registrars@gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-registrars@gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2004 2:37 PM To: registrars@dnso.org Subject: [registrars] Fwd: Hurricane Frances impacts Oki all, Since a few of us are affected by this (Michael and Monte), here is one operational report from the NANOG list. Eric ------- Forwarded Message Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 18:20:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Hurricane Frances impacts Since the FCC no longer makes outage reports public, folks will have to obtain their information from other sources. The networks in Broward, Palm Beach, Martin, Brevard counties appear to be the most impacted. Cellular had problems due to wireless sites being without power. The wireless industry brought in 500 new generators in advance of the hurricane, but needed to wait until the hurricane passed before sending them out to the cell sites. Miami and Orlando also have sites down due to power issues and connectivity to local carriers. The various local access line providers in Florida, Florida has a lot of tiny LATAs and phone companies, report some access lines are down but haven't published any counts. Cable networks have the same issues with local cable service. No reports of damage to telephone central offices or cable headends. Due to power outages and local access network problems, bank networks and cash machines are out of service in most of the affected counties. No reports of problems to any NAPs, POPs, data centers or fiber trunks. They generally have permanent generators. So if you have local connectivity, Internet access is working. Streaming audio/video from Florida television and radio stations over the Internet did not have any problems. Some WiFi providers are once again offering free WiFi service in the affected counties, if you can reach a working hotspot (with local power and local network connectivity). ------- End of Forwarded Message
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