Irma. The biggest ever Atlantic hurricane......

[randlemarcus]

Vaud said:

It’s not non US registered, it’s “The Jones Act requires goods sent between US ports to be carried on ships built, owned and operated by the US.”

Which rules out most aid ships.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/28/dona...

Between US ports is the crucial bit there. You can sail your Panama registered vessel stocked with inflatable hot dog shacks from Cuba to Panama. You cannot then sail to another US port. Granted, you can't go to a US port to get their aid hot dog shacks, then to PR (well, except for now), but it's not Trump, it's nearly a century of every flavour of US politics protecting their shipping trade.

[Vaud]

randlemarcus said:

Between US ports is the crucial bit there. You can sail your Panama registered vessel stocked with inflatable hot dog shacks from Cuba to Panama. You cannot then sail to another US port. Granted, you can't go to a US port to get their aid hot dog shacks, then to PR (well, except for now), but it's not Trump, it's nearly a century of every flavour of US politics protecting their shipping trade.

Oh I agree.

US land of the free market economics, providing you are in the US, otherwise prepare for protectionism.

[djdest]

Jeff is getting excited about Nate

https://www.pscp.tv/Jeff_Piotrowski/1DXGyOqwgqNxM

[Puggit]

Ophelia is beginning to look interesting for us...

Current projections see the remains of Ophelia hitting Ireland.

Edited by Puggit on Wednesday 11th October 12:32

[StanleyT]

Shed survived!

http://southernmostpointwebcam.com/

[citizensm1th]

StanleyT said:

Shed survived!

http://southernmostpointwebcam.com/

looks like some paint got stripped off of that marker

[djdest]

That shed had been there since about 1920, it was a landing point for a trans Atlantic cable

[MitchT]

Soggy Dollar Bar webcam is back up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j20LxMX8QKM

[Puggit]

Maria death toll in Puerto Rico revised up from 64 to 2975...

https://news.sky.com/story/puerto-ricos-hurricane-...