Monday, September 15, 2008

At the Civic Center



We are located at a civic center that mostly survived the hurricane, although with water damage. Cell phone service comes and goes, thank goodness I have the VoIP phones to call home. There is no electricity anywhere, so no Walmarts, gas stations, coke machines, nothing. Anywhere. FEMA has a Logistical Staging Area located here. FEMA will bring in food, water, ice, ect to this location, and we will push it out to the Point Of Distribution (POD) centers. This will require communication with the PODs run by the National Guard, as well as the local government agents. I am setting up the MITOC wireless network for them to use with a server and several laptops for logistical purposes. Database kind of stuff, ideal for our new research project, IMDSS.

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