Puerto Rican Hospitals Battle Life and Death Daily

Re:Puerto Rican Hospitals Battle Life and Death Daily by rgbrenner on Thursday October 05, 2017 @05:37PM (#15412764)

There is a carrier off the coast of PR: USS Kearsarge. The USS Oak Hill (not a carrier though) is also in PR. Both arrived shortly after Maria hit.

The USS Wasp was recently moved from Dominica to PR.

Note, this is still less help than FL received for Irma. FL got Kearsarge + Oak Hill + New York + Iwo Jima. (The last two ships have about 2000 people.. they were clearing roads, restoring electricity, and distributing supplies in FL.. they went home from FL the same day maria was upgraded to a cat 4 and was just off PRs coast.)

And note, USS Wasp was in PR for Irma, then moved to Dominica for Maria, now has moved back a couple of days ago. (USS Wasp has water purification systems.. they're literally distributing water)

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Re:Puerto Rican Hospitals Battle Life and Death Daily by zaroth on Friday October 06, 2017 @01:42AM (#15414672)

Good update from WaPo on ship deployments [1] including deploying USMS Comfort (which apparently PR officials initially declined).

[1] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/10/04...

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Re:Puerto Rican Hospitals Battle Life and Death Daily by leggomylibro on Thursday October 05, 2017 @05:51PM (#15412843)

Huh, cool. It's always nice to see them being used for relief efforts like this.

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