(I'm trimming the excess replies as those are getting out of control) MarineTraffic shows very few ships around the island. Either that is because most of the AIS radio receiving stations on Puerto Rico are damaged / offline (still possible), or because no ships are going there until the ports are fixed/cleared.
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-66.5/centery:18.2/zoom:9 On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 9:09 PM, Steve Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > there is nowhere to park the boats Jaime. That's the problem. there are > boats sitting in the ocean with nowhere to park. its not even just lack of > docks, there is debris in the water, sunk or disabled ships in the few > areas accessible are a real risk. We are all looking at this through > landlocked eyes where theres always tons of options. The military is > leading operations, but theyre not physics magicians. 3 million people is a > lot of supplies, just in drinking water alone. then distribution if you do > get it to land. what do you send, and in what order when the fuel is > running out? a bunch of delivery trucks? so they fill the lots cause they > don't have fuel? food? with nothing to transport it cause the roads are > damaged or impassable? They don't even have the chainsaws, there was a > whole article about that, not enough chainsaws. A tree falls in my > neighborhood, there are ten chainsaws within 10 minutes onsite cutting > because theres 5-10 chainsaws per city block in garages. > > this is a new logistics nightmare with 24/7 nonstop negative media > coverage on top of it > > On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 8:59 PM, Jaime Solorza <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Just saw and heard the mayor of San Juan... We need our military to >> deploy immediately to assist...they are trained and have logistics >> expertise...cruise liners could take a shitload of supplies them...damn we >> are the most powerful country and we are dropping the ball. >> >>
