Just published, buried in the after-action report on 2021 Hurricane Ida Commodity internet access is now part of life-safety. National Weather Service Service Assessment August-September 2021 Hurricane Ida April 2023 https://www.weather.gov/media/publications/assessments/Hurricane_Ida_Service... [...] The Assessment Team found commodity internet access as important to the completion of the NWS mission as the AWIPS Wide Area Network (WAN) is to disseminating life-saving warnings. The lack of reliable, consistent internet access, to include sufficient bandwidth, would have led to mission failure during Ida if not for extraordinary measures taken by staff at WFO New Orleans/Baton Rouge and the LMRFC. WFO New Orleans/Baton Rouge and the LMRFC sent people to telework from a forecaster’s home, where they had reliable commodity internet, to provide IDSS. [...]