HURRICANE KATRINA

TELEPHONE CO DAMAGE PAGE

Hurricane Katrina

Facing its most daunting restoration task in its history, Bellsouth is doing a tremendous job of dealing with the disaster and restoring service to as many as possible with the resources available and the extensive damage it faces.

See a Bellsouth perseverance: BELLSOUTH DOWNTOWN NEW ORLEANS

Note: WCAU NBC Video Clip need Windows Media Player

Some information:

 Estimates of the damage:

Initially over 1.75 million people without phone service

131 Central office effected and 19 of them either destoryed or heavily damaged, serving a total of 187,000 lines.

Cost to restore/replace: $400-500 million

As of September 10, please see following links:

Map of Central Office Damage: CO STATUS (Need Adobe PDF)

List of CO damage: CO LIST  (Need MS Excel)

Note: files from Bellsouth

 

Contributed pictures of damaged central offices in Louisiana.  Click on Picture for bigger file

BURAS

DELACROIX

LAKE CATHERINE

NEW ORLEANS "CHALMETTE"

NEW ORLEANS "FRANKLIN"

NEW ORLEANS "LAKE"

NEW ORLEANS "MID CITY"

NEW ORLEANS "SEABROOK"

PORT A LA HACHE

PORT SULFUR

ST. BERNARD

VENICE

YSCLOSKY

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