With no working outage tracker from the Houston area’s main electricity provider, people are turning to the chain’s map of open restaurants after Hurricane Beryl.
I mean Waffle House closures are how FEMA tracks hurricane damaged communities in Florida. Now we just need to figure out how to use Denny’s to show how much of California is burnt down.
I can understand a self hosted tracker being down after a major weather event but their original Outage Tracker went down in May during the derecho storm so the real bullshit it’s taken them until now to get it up again. There’s no reason that a self-hosted web page should be down for over 30 days.
The new version is Cloud Hosted so it shouldn’t happen again but it shouldn’t have happened in the first place.
It would seem the reason is they don’t want people to see the outages. Not fixing the site is a decision. A large number of people reading these posts could likely do it in a short amount of time.
I mean Waffle House closures are how FEMA tracks hurricane damaged communities in Florida. Now we just need to figure out how to use Denny’s to show how much of California is burnt down.
That’s true in a lot if places, and that’s partly due to the way FEMA is organized and integrated across multiple states.
That, however, is some bullshit.
Looks like they rolled out their new tracker last night. It’s available here: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/195bcf03ae0c491f9f14bf77f2c43420
I can understand a self hosted tracker being down after a major weather event but their original Outage Tracker went down in May during the derecho storm so the real bullshit it’s taken them until now to get it up again. There’s no reason that a self-hosted web page should be down for over 30 days.
The new version is Cloud Hosted so it shouldn’t happen again but it shouldn’t have happened in the first place.
It would seem the reason is they don’t want people to see the outages. Not fixing the site is a decision. A large number of people reading these posts could likely do it in a short amount of time.
Replace dennys with In N out. I haven’t even seen a Denny’s in ages but there’s an in n out in every town
That was my first thought, but they’re not open 24/7.