ARLA/CLUSTER: Continua a resposta dos radioamadores americanos às consequencias do Furacão Irma

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

Ham radio Irma response continues

The ARRL say the amateur radio volunteer response to the historic
hurricane Irma continues

They report:
“We have survived Hurricane Irma.” That assessment came this morning
from ARRL West Central Florida (WCF) Section Manager Darrell Davis,
KT4WX, who reported that the storm’s eye passed over the Hardee County
emergency operations center just before midnight EDT on September 10.
(Davis also is the Hardee County Emergency Coordinator).

Irma has now been downgraded to a tropical storm, but flooding remains
a threat as the storm’s remnants move inland.

Davis said he was grateful for the Ham Aid equipment — four hand-held
transceivers and one mobile transceiver — that ARRL sent to Florida as
the storm threatened the peninsula last week. After hitting the
Florida Keys, Hurricane Irma made landfall near Naples, Florida, on
September 10 at around 2100 UTC as a Category 2 storm.

No one is standing down just yet, however. Davis said his section,
which includes the City of Tampa, will have a conference call this
afternoon and an ARES net this evening “to assess any unmet needs by
our ARES groups in our Section.” Thirty Florida counties were under
mandatory evacuation orders.

As of today, FEMA reports that 586 shelters are open, housing some
192,000 occupants. FEMA also reported that more than one-half of the
state’s customers — some 5.7 million people — were without electrical
power as of early this morning.

Read the full ARRL story at
http://www.arrl.org/news/amateur-radio-volunteer-response-continues-to-historic-hurricane-irma