Entries tagged with "Hurricane Isaac"

A case study of Louisiana’s resilience to Hurricane Isaac power outages

The first journal article from our NSF RAPID research project on the socio-technical resilience of Louisiana to the Hurricane Isaac power outage and restoration, which was described in this post, has come out in ASCE’s Journal of Infrastructure Systems. You can grab the article here.

Power Restoration: What’s Fast Enough?

Have you ever had the power go out at your home or your place of work? I think everyone’s hands go up at this question. What’s the longest you’ve gone without power? You in the back: 13 days?! Wow. Personally, I’ve never gone more than a day. I’ve met the people who restore the power …