In the hours leading up to the landfall of Hurricane Irma on the Florida Keys on Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017, a few technologists in the City of Key West’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC) began to prepare mobile data collection tools on their smart phones to track the toll of the storm after it passed.
It had been more than 12 years since a storm struck the Florida Keys, although many in the EOC had a strong memory of the impactful events of the 2005 storm season. In that year, there were four federal disaster declarations for the area, with Hurricane Wilma doing the bulk of the damage....continued ...