Saturday, August 27
The FCMP is presently traveling through the Panhandle to Mobile, Alabama to ready for the second deployment for Hurricane Katrina. Teams returned to Gainesville last night from Broward County in order to reorganize. This morning a convoy traveled to the State Emergency Operations Center in Tallahassee, Florida. The team consists of members from the University of Florida and Florida International University.
| Equipment | Truck | Passengers |
|---|---|---|
| T0 | 3356 | Victor Camps (FIU), Collette Blessing (FIU) |
| T1 | 3578 | Jimmy Erwin (FIU) |
| T2 | 3580 | Jesus Jayaro (UF), Jimmy Jesteadt (UF) |
| T3 | 3657 | John Gamache (UF) |
| T5 | 3766 | Jorel Vaccaro (UF), Kristin Barndt (UF) |
| House | 4039 | Dr. Kurtis Gurley (UF), Dr. Forrest Masters (FIU), Rob Davis (UF) |
Sunday, August 28
Teams have been reorganized to deploy towers in Mississippi and Louisiana:
Louisiana Team: Dr. Forrest Masters, Jimmy Jesteadt, Jesus Jayaro and John Gamache pulling T1 and T2
Mississippi Team: Dr. Kurtis Gurley, Victor Camps, Collette Blessing, Jimmy Erwin, Jorel Vaccaro, Kristin Barndt and Rob Davis pulling T0, T3 and T5
T2’s generator isn’t providing power, so we rigged two marine batteries in serial to provide additional 24V power to the UPS system. We expect 24 hours of data collection.
Cell reception looks poor in many of the areas we may deploy, so this may prevent operation of the real-time system. If so, the summary files will be posted as soon as the towers are retrieved.
Monday, August 29
Apparently the cell phone connection has been compromise, for mobile towers T0, T1, T3 and T5, the only tower that still posting data is T2. As soon as the weather conditions stabilize to safe conditions, FCMP team members will go to extract the tower and post the rest of the data.