Given the funding challanges, rough weather indeed if major repairs are needed. Funding an older facility, even a very productive one, is challanging in today’s political environment.
Hurricane Irma hit Florida as a weak Cat 4 on Sunday, September 10th. We lost power at 1 PM that day, and in the intervening 10 days have learned that Florida is uninhabitable without AC. Words cannot describe it.
It was misery and just luck that my wife and I didn’t kill each other.
Still: We had a generator to run fans, a few lights, the well (for water). We have gas for cooking. In other words, we didn’t have electricity, but we were hardly third world. And we got our power back a few hours ago (Wednesday, Sept, 20). More to the point, we have a roof over our head that doesn’t leak.
Puerto Rico? Not so much. Those people will suffer with no electric for many, many months. The island is populated by millions of poor folks in substance living. It will be awful. Suffering hardly describes it.
Yes, FEMA will step up, just as it has done here in Florida, and in Houston (fortunately FEMA is headed by a professional).
Please find the charity of your choice. Donate. Help these Americans. Everything helps.
If you want to support Arecibo download and run setiathome. They do not have nearly enough computer processing power to process all the signals and rely on tens of thousands of volunteers around the world to do so.
Given the funding challanges, rough weather indeed if major repairs are needed. Funding an older facility, even a very productive one, is challanging in today’s political environment.
That is actually not true — for military facilities. We need to convince trump that Arecibo has some kind of a military use.
Detecting illegal aliens?
“Detecting illegal aliens?”
Groan…
Hurricane Irma hit Florida as a weak Cat 4 on Sunday, September 10th. We lost power at 1 PM that day, and in the intervening 10 days have learned that Florida is uninhabitable without AC. Words cannot describe it.
It was misery and just luck that my wife and I didn’t kill each other.
Still: We had a generator to run fans, a few lights, the well (for water). We have gas for cooking. In other words, we didn’t have electricity, but we were hardly third world. And we got our power back a few hours ago (Wednesday, Sept, 20). More to the point, we have a roof over our head that doesn’t leak.
Puerto Rico? Not so much. Those people will suffer with no electric for many, many months. The island is populated by millions of poor folks in substance living. It will be awful. Suffering hardly describes it.
Yes, FEMA will step up, just as it has done here in Florida, and in Houston (fortunately FEMA is headed by a professional).
Please find the charity of your choice. Donate. Help these Americans. Everything helps.
Start here:
http://www.charity-charitie…
If you want to support Arecibo download and run setiathome. They do not have nearly enough computer processing power to process all the signals and rely on tens of thousands of volunteers around the world to do so.