In Florida, Hurricanes are inevitable, given the state is a peninsula with the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean along its borders. While a utility may be fortunate enough to dodge a significant storm and its accompanying outages one season, odds are they’ll be hit with “the big one” in the coming years. The team at Kissimmee Utility Authority understood this. They also knew their storm communication efforts and outage map needed a modernized upgrade.
“Outages are a personal thing,” said Michael Wagner, Manager of Dispatch Compliance at KUA. “We needed a map that reflected that.”
That’s why, ahead of the 2022 Atlantic Hurricane Season, the KUA team partnered with DataCapable to upgrade their outage map with a map powered by The DataCapable Platform. Explore how the rapid deployment of KUA’s map became strategic foresight as their team was confronted with the one most destructive storms ever to hit the United States – Hurricane Ian.