Tropical Storm Harvey continued to deluge southeastern Texas with rain and surging floodwater Tuesday, as it slowly crept toward Louisiana. A major dam outside Houston, the nation’s fourth-largest city, overflowed, resulting in more flooding.
About 95 percent of the cell tower sites in the 55 total counties of Texas and Louisiana are working, according to the latest figures from the FCC’s Disaster Information Reporting System (DIRS). The carriers provide updated information to DIRS daily.
At mid-morning on Tuesday, 4.7 percent of the cell sites were down in the affected area, the same as Monday. The counties with more than 50 percent of cell sites out are Aransas and Refugio in Texas. Louisiana is beginning to have cell site outages. Calcasieu, St. John the Baptist, and Terrebonne are the only parishes reporting site outages, each with one site out. Continue Reading
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