Situational Awareness - Natural Disaster / Preparedness: A study published in "Environmental Science & Technology" compiled data from three major U.S. cities to assess the degree to which heat-related mortality/morbidity change in response to a concurrent major blackout event or MBE (defined as power outages lasting more than 1 hour and impacting more than 50,000 customers). Of note, MBEs have increased by 151% in the U.S. between 2015 and 2021. Researchers found that if an MBE coincided with a heat-wave, the "heat-related death rate would spike by 700%". Particularly for Phoenix, AZ; the study assessed that ~50% of residents (800,000) would require hospitalization and ~1% (13,000) would die. #poweroutage

》Source: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.est.2c09588