I wanted to take a minute and share what’s been going on along the East Coast for the past few days and the wonderful contributions by editors from all over the Waze community in response to hurricane Matthew.
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The Waze USA VEOC Slack team was activated and when WazeCon 5 level was reached a “All hands on deck” request was sent out looking for help from all editors in dealing with Hurricane Matthew. Currently we have 300+ members signed up
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300+ Emergency Shelter locations have been entered into a Waze provided sheet for upload into the Waze app for users to reference as they flee the storm.
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Interstate I-26 in South Carolina had over 90+ miles of closures entered to support “counter-flow”. The State made the East Bound lanes into West Bound lanes only to help with the flow of traffic leaving Charleston SC.
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Interstate I-16 in Georgia had over 100+ miles of closures entered to support “counter-flow”. The State made the East Bound lanes into West Bound lanes only to help with the flow of traffic leaving Savannah GA.
More will be added as events unfold.
Second update. Sunday night 10/09/2016
As of this afternoon
- So far we have had 55 different people submitting PL’s for closing
- 28 different people putting the closures in place,
- 1,759 total PL’s for closures with 5,886 different segment id’s closed,
- So far 5 different states affected. FL 339 closures, GA 54 closures, NC 479 closures, SC 740 closures and VA 132 closures as of this post and the count is growing.
GREAT JOB by everyone. If you would like to help all are welcome https://waze-usa-emergencies.slack.com/ If you need an invitation http://bit.ly/Waze_USA_VEOC
For now we would like to say THANK YOU
everyone that has helped with the response to the hurricane for all your hard work over the past 24-48 hours. TENS OF THOUSANDS of people are seeking shelter in over 250 shelters throughout FL, GA, and SC.
We appreciate everyone from other regions who have come to help.
Special thanks to some of our other VEOC leadership: keepfsusafe, havanaday, crazycaveman, jwe252, nzahn1, ialangford, spedracr, and others I am sure I am forgetting.
Third update. Sunday afternoon 10/16/2016
As of this afternoon
- So far we have had 70 different people submitting PL’s for closing
- At least 28 different people putting the closures in place,
- 3,425 total PL’s for closures with 14,617 different segment id’s closed, 1,712 still closed.
- So far 5 different states in 3 different regions affected. FL 339 closures 2 still closedGA 54 closures 0 still closed NC 1,443 closures 1,099 still closed SC 1,184 closures 589 still closed VA 405 closures 22 still closed as of this post and the count is growing. NC and SC are still dealing with flooding as the rivers crest and water flows out of the states.
GREAT JOB by everyone. If you would like to help all are welcome https://waze-usa-emergencies.slack.com/ If you need an invitation http://bit.ly/Waze_USA_VEOC
Fourth update. Sunday afternoon 10/23/2016 Yes closures are still being added.
As of this afternoon
- So far we have had 70 different people submitting PL’s for closing
- At least 28 different people putting the closures in place,
- 3,508 total PL’s for closures with 15,068 different segment id’s closed, down to 674 still closed.
- 5 different states in 3 different regions affected. FL 339 closures 2 still closedGA 54 closures 0 still closed NC 1,569 closures 560 still closed SC 1,214 closures 110 still closed VA 406 closures 2 still closed as of this post and the count is growing. NC and SC are still dealing with flooding as the rivers crest and water flows out of the states.
Here are some slack stats while we can get them.
Date ====== Messages sent
Thu, Oct 06, 2016 ====== 3,091
Fri, Oct 07, 2016 ====== 2,145
Sat, Oct 08, 2016 ====== 5,962
Sun, Oct 09, 2016 ====== 5,445
Mon, Oct 10, 2016 ====== 3,114
Tue, Oct 11, 2016 ====== 2,566
Wed, Oct 12, 2016 ====== 3,702
Thu, Oct 13, 2016 ====== 1,571
Fri, Oct 14, 2016 ====== 1,098
Sat, Oct 15, 2016 ====== 580
Sun, Oct 16, 2016 ====== 464
Mon, Oct 17, 2016 ====== 605
Tue, Oct 18, 2016 ====== 248
Wed, Oct 19, 2016 ====== 442
Thu, Oct 20, 2016 ====== 435
Fri, Oct 21, 2016 ====== 542
Sat, Oct 22, 2016 ====== no data
Sun, Oct 23, 2016 ====== no data
Total messages ====== 32,010
As promised since the event is winding down here are the list of 70 different people who helped with Hurricane Matthew closures. Some helped a little some helped a lot and all help is appreciated. Sure there are others that helped in VEOC that might not of worked closures on the tracking sheet.
AndyPoms, apeachypanda , ardan74 , b0b2 , BenEnmen , blktruc , bmtg , BowlesCR , breadstk11 , BruceQC , burgher_2 , CopyCatGuy , crazycaveman , dchary2418 , dfortney , dhschneider , DrNeubie , driving79, dsfargeg , dspille , dude463 ,ehepner1977 , falco_sparverius , FzNk , GeekyGirl36 , grsmhiker , gunnargsd , HavanaDay , ialangford , jdelosa , jwe252 , Kartografer , kc0unh , KeepFSUSafe , kiwiflyer10 , Kodi75 , ldriveskier , LostRiver2008 , m-103 , Machete808 , MapOMatic , markr4468 , Michelle-s , mrsmith66 , N714LT , nhmapguy , nzahn1 ,oldbeeg, Onmywaysir , ottonomy , Phlipnull , Rfrsw101 , roadtechie , RonRover , RussPA , russwd , s18slider , sgtm14 , sketch , Smitty15 , spedracr , stephenr1966 , subs5 , Super_D , tortured1 , uscwaller , Veedis , Watchout4Others , willdanneriv , xanderb , XKSpeed , zmessaglia
To each and every one of you we of the Waze VEOC say THANK YOU for your help and support.
Was going to try and list some impact stats however not all states/counties have been able to submit damage information. Here is a link for weather.com that has a lot of different information about the storm that you might find interesting.
