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.