Katrina Tech: What Worked, What Sucked
In this month's Wired, Mike Keller has "the inside story of how one hurricane" -- that'd be Katrina -- "wreaked telecommunications havoc. Check out his (all-too-brief) article on "what stayed online, what didn't -- and why." DSL and cells drowned. TV stations and emergency radios rose to the surface.
tv coverage of impoverished superdome... check
5 day advanced warning of category 5 hurricane...check
local law enforcement...
food...
water...
communication stations...
amphibious transportation...
enforcing the mandatary evacuation...
disarming the public of their personal protection...check
giving hundreds of thousands of people automatic direct deposit welfare checks...check
building a city underwater...check
building a city underwater in a hurricane region...check
building a city underwater in a hurricane region on the coast...check
providing that city with an adequate hurricane barrier...
sending in more then 2000 national guard in 4 days...
sending in 50000 national guard a week later after everyone is safe or dead...check
Posted by: jtw at October 26, 2005 11:49 PM