Hurricane Fiona
Hurricane Fiona hit Puerto Rico on September 18, 2022, causing widespread flooding, mudslides, power outages, and infrastructural damage across the island. Some areas in the south and central mountain regions received more than 30 inches of rain.
In October 2022, Jaqueline Zdebski traveled to Puerto Rico to train and support a team of graduate students from Iowa State University who were investigating electric power network resiliency for Alice Alipour’s CAREER award. The team worked together to collect RApp app, RTC360 lidar, and DJI Phantom RTK aerial imagery data of utility pole and transmission tower failures resulting from Hurricane Fiona. The following month, the students traveled to Nome, Alaska, to collect infrastructure failure data following a windstorm, using RApp and RAPID’s DSLR camera.
