I really like this kind of info - here's Puget Sound Energy's Service Alert website, http://sam.pse.com/. It tracks reported power outages in near real-time, searchable by zip code and county. Look at Kitsap County and you'll see where yesterday's storm hit the hardest. To someone who plans emergency shelters this is gold, and until recently this kind of info was only available from the right guy in an EOC somewhere. I'd really like to see this info reported more by actual addresses or power territories, or take this info and overlay some other stuff on it - access routes, floodwater boundaries, etc - but this comes in handy as it is, and given the pace of change I reckon there's someone out there somewhere already working on the overlay. Ain't technology lovely...


Edited by Lono (11/24/10 03:07 AM)