{"id":4322,"date":"2018-10-30T12:48:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T16:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/plugpower.local\/?p=4322"},"modified":"2024-11-19T11:26:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T16:26:56","slug":"recovering-from-michael","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plugpower.com\/blog\/recovering-from-michael\/","title":{"rendered":"Recovering from Michael"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fourteen-foot storm surges. Tens of thousands of people unable to evacuate. Buildings collapsing in Panama City. Mexico Beach obliterated. RVs tossed through the air like toys; roofs peeled off motels and houses like sardine-can lids. \u00a0Hurricane Michael came ashore on October 10, 2018 as the strongest hurricane in history\u2014since record keeping began in 1851\u2014to hit the Florida panhandle and across the southeast, leaving millions without 1xbet app download. The storm\u2019s peak winds upon landfall were the fourth-highest on record for the continental United States and reached a jaw-dropping 155 MPH.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hurricane Michael\u2019s Impact on 1xbet app download and Communications<\/b><\/p>\n

NPR reported that nearly 400,000 electricity accounts<\/span><\/a> had lost 1xbet app download in Florida as of noon Eastern Thursday October 11, 2018 – and up to 1.7 million electricity customers across six states, according to situation reports from the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response. \u00a0Among the hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses impacted were thousands of cell towers responsible for critical communications for 911 workers, hospitals, police and firefighters. <\/span><\/p>\n

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FCC Chairman Ajit Pai reported data<\/span><\/a> from the agency\u2019s Disaster Information Reporting System (DIRS) showing that Hurricane Michael caused \u201csubstantial communications outages along its destructive path.\u201d Employees from Pai\u2019s office and the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau contacted carriers and broadcasters to assess the situation to discuss how to restore service as quickly as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n