On Thu, 5 Oct 2017, Jean-Francois Mezei wrote:
Statistics may look bad showing 100,000 without power. But if it is a single break by a branch it is easy to fix compared to having 1000 breaks by 1000 branches. So again, statistics don't give the full story on the real extent of damage.
The FCC is a passive entity collecting only the outage details service providers choose to voluntarily share. Data about cell sites is from the Wireless Resiliency Cooperative Framework and any other wireless carriers which choose to provide data. https://www.fcc.gov/wireless-resiliency-cooperative-framework https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/60001707365.pdf This is the data collected by DIRS: Wireline Carriers CLLI code of switches/STPs that are out Names of PSAPs that are out Estimated users out of service Major facilities out of service (> 192 DS3) Very short status description of the effects of event (e.g., “No major equipment out”) Wireless Carriers CLLI code of MSCs/STPs that are out Total cell sites out in disaster area Very short status description