[OC] Time Lapse of Hurricane Helene Power Outages : “Beautiful” isn’t the right word :/
October 9, 2024
[OC] Time Lapse of Hurricane Helene Power Outages : “Beautiful” isn’t the right word :/
Posted by morlhop
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[OC] We scrape and/or connect to the APIs of almost 1000 electric utilities in the US and track that data every 15 minutes all via custom built solutions. We store the data for historical purposes and publish the live data at [https://findenergy.com/power-outage/](https://findenergy.com/power-outage/)
Keep voting for the GOP, Appalachia. Y’all are good on your own, right?
This is great right now, it’s gonna be doubly great after this next one. Seeing the one-two punch on the graphic.
My heart goes out to those affected, I mean no disrespect.
We will need another one after Milton!
The engineering efforts to bring everything back up must be crazy.
My only gripe is putting the date and time as it happens as tiny text in the bottom left.
That’s Brandon’s infrastructure for you
This may be something I’m supposed to know intuitively, but what are the colors representing? Red is clearly bad, but does it mean total blackout? What do the variations in yellow represent? A key of what I’m looking at would be helpful.
Wait, isn’t the hurricane still on its way to Florida?
Can you please do the same for Beryl and Houston.
Is there just not good data for Tennessee counties?
I find it a little hard to believe that they’re doing so much better than every other state that was affected
I was watching the storm from my back window which faces directly south towards downtown Greenville, SC. It was like one of those horror movie hallway scenes because the power flashes in the sky were happening every few seconds and each one kept getting closer and closer to my house. We ended up losing our power about 5 minutes later. Terrifying.
Mine went out, but it didnt here?
This photo shows the real-life results of the power outages
Having lived in through this – pretty eerie to see the red zone for all of us was literally a line.
OP, interesting map; however, you should consider using a choropleth map with a sequential color scheme for representing percentages of population with/without power available. Many people in the red counties have power restored already. Using a single red color gives the impression that everyone in the county is without power, which is misleading.
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[OC] We scrape and/or connect to the APIs of almost 1000 electric utilities in the US and track that data every 15 minutes all via custom built solutions. We store the data for historical purposes and publish the live data at [https://findenergy.com/power-outage/](https://findenergy.com/power-outage/)
You can find a narrated version of this at [https://www.tiktok.com/@findenergy.com/video/7423771769254710570](https://www.tiktok.com/@findenergy.com/video/7423771769254710570)
Keep voting for the GOP, Appalachia. Y’all are good on your own, right?
This is great right now, it’s gonna be doubly great after this next one. Seeing the one-two punch on the graphic.
My heart goes out to those affected, I mean no disrespect.
We will need another one after Milton!
The engineering efforts to bring everything back up must be crazy.
My only gripe is putting the date and time as it happens as tiny text in the bottom left.
That’s Brandon’s infrastructure for you
This may be something I’m supposed to know intuitively, but what are the colors representing? Red is clearly bad, but does it mean total blackout? What do the variations in yellow represent? A key of what I’m looking at would be helpful.
Wait, isn’t the hurricane still on its way to Florida?
Can you please do the same for Beryl and Houston.
Is there just not good data for Tennessee counties?
I find it a little hard to believe that they’re doing so much better than every other state that was affected
I was watching the storm from my back window which faces directly south towards downtown Greenville, SC. It was like one of those horror movie hallway scenes because the power flashes in the sky were happening every few seconds and each one kept getting closer and closer to my house. We ended up losing our power about 5 minutes later. Terrifying.
Mine went out, but it didnt here?
This photo shows the real-life results of the power outages
[Southeast United States nighttime light map after hurricane Helene](https://images.axios.com/RYNAV_WL7nomqBlHQOjl2QrpnhU=/0x0:1360×765/1024×576/2024/10/02/1727873634375.png?w=1024)
Except the clip stops at Oct 3
Having lived in through this – pretty eerie to see the red zone for all of us was literally a line.
OP, interesting map; however, you should consider using a choropleth map with a sequential color scheme for representing percentages of population with/without power available. Many people in the red counties have power restored already. Using a single red color gives the impression that everyone in the county is without power, which is misleading.