[LTER-im] Eda and LUQ are fine, as of Friday

[Wade Sheldon]

Gastil,

Good to hear about LUQ! Thanks for the update.

We weren't as lucky at GCE, though. Irma didn't get too close to the GA coast, but the 1.5m storm surge hit us on a spring high tide, and we got  a couple of feet of water in all the 1st floor labs and offices at the marine institute. Power is back on, but we're a long way from normal with lots of reconstruction and repairs required. I'll be down this week doing triage on the campus network and getting the admin office computers moved to a temporary location in the main lab, but things are at least functional and we're getting our near-real-time data. Yuck!

Wade Sheldon
GCE


On 9/18/2017 1:01 PM, Gastil Gastil-Buhl wrote:
> Hi LTER site IMs,
>
> You will be relieved to know Eda and the LUQ site in Puerto Rico fared well thru the hurricanes so far. In her words,
>
> "PR was lucky and although WITH WINDS of category 5 hurricane, the center of Irma did not pass over us which means that we did not get the worst of it... besides, our houses are mostly hurricane-ready (that means built with cement) and the biggest problem we have is reinstalling electricity due to fallen trees that damage lines and also flood... but never like it happened in Texas. I already have electricity in my house.
> Also, PR is assisting our neighbor islands, like San Thomas which were really devastated by Irma."
>
> The next hurricane, Maria, is on its way. But it sounds like the people of PR are well prepared for this sort of ecological "disturbance".
>
> Gastil
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  Wade M. Sheldon
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  School of Marine Programs
  University of Georgia
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