Red Cross Asks For 50 Ham Radio Operators To Fly To Puerto Rico (arrl.org)

Posted by BeauHD on Monday September 25, 2017 @10:00PM from the relief-efforts dept.

Bruce Perens writes: The red cross has asked for 50 ham radio operators to fly to Puerto Rico and be deployed there for up to three weeks. This is unprecedented in the 75-year cooperation between Red Cross and ARRL, the national organization of ham radio operators for the U.S. The operators will relay health-and-welfare messages and provide communications links where those are missing and are essential to rescue and recovery. With much infrastructure destroyed, short-wave radio is a critical means of communicating from Puerto Rico to the Mainland at this time.

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Why do people bother with prayers? by Viol8 · 2017-09-26 01:07 · Score: -1, Offtopic

If you believe in some all powerful being then the same all powerful being is in charge of the weather. He created the hurricane or at the very least didn't bother to stop it. So what exactly are you going to achieve praying to the same psychopathic entity to help the people he obviously doesn't give a damn about in the first place?
People are odd.