The Towers Were Standing: A Cause Decomposition of Cellular Outages During Hurricane Helene

Oluseyi Olukola, Oare Danielle Addeh, Esther Abiodun Konan +1

Hurricane Helene produced the largest absolute cell-site outage in the public FCC record, peaking at 4562 sites. The conventional model is physical: towers destroyed. Helene did de…