Posts

Barranquilla

Image
Barranquitas (Spanish pronunciation: [baraŋˈkitas] , Smallgullies) is a small mountain municipality located in the central region of Puerto Rico (U.S.), south of Corozal and Naranjito ; north of Coamo and Aibonito ; west of Comerío and Cidra ; and east of Orocovis . Barranquitas is spread over 6 wards and Barranquitas Pueblo (the downtown area and the administrative center of the city). It is part of the San Juan-Caguas-Guaynabo Metropolitan Statistical Area . Barranquitas is about one hour by winding roads from San Juan , the capital. It is nestled amid hills and mountains, and nearby, between Barranquitas and Aibonito, is located the "cañón de San Cristóbal" (Canyon of Saint Cristopher); one of the deepest canyons in the Indies. For years, the overlook was used as a municipal garbage; in the last decade, the refuse was removed and the site restored.[1] Sometimes life is funny... Seriously the only thing that is up and running are the automatic tolls... I mea...

Najanjito (Little Orange)

Image
Today we descended upon Najanjito. Naranjito (Spanish pronunciation: [naɾaŋˈxito] , Little Orange) is a municipality of Puerto Rico (U.S.) located in the central region of the island, south of Toa Alta ; north of Barranquitas and Comerío ; east of Corozal ; and west of Bayamón . Naranjito is spread over 15 wards and Naranjito Pueblo (The downtown area and the administrative center of the city).[1] We rolled in to see quite a bit of devastated areas.  The day started off a little rough one satellite system need a little fine tuning this morning, but with the quick help from the team from Kymeta, Alex was able to tweak a few things and get it back purring like a kitten. The next issue has been the one that has been plaguing us since we started, and that is a wifi system that wasn't quite robust enough to handle the extreme loads of the crowds and FEMA team members. Last night late, couldn't sleep, made a command decision to take all that PoE w...