May be of interest, posted on the Startups of Puerto Rico Slack channel earlier today: Marcos Cruz [4:41 AM] I hope everyone is well, Noob question: Does anyone know for how long do the power plants of cell towers run on diesel? Mike Rosado:house_with_garden: [8:03 AM] I spoke with my parents in Carolina, and they have been without power since 4am [8:03 AM] Sprint towers are down, but AT&T towers are running. Mike Rosado:house_with_garden: [8:23 AM] I'm part of the volunteer team at the ITDRC and I am on the ITDRC Slack channel. We already have many volunteers in Puerto Rico. Should you need communications help, please send me a private message, and I'll forward it to them. https://itdrc.org/ (edited) M Pilar [9:24 AM] ~24h in urban zones ~48h in other zones, but if they are large towers they also have batteries that last 1-8h Ariel Zavala [9:32 AM] What ISPs are up right now? Mike Rosado:house_with_garden: [9:39 AM] Right now Liberty and WorldNet are being brought up. :+1:1 Mike Rosado:house_with_garden: [9:41 AM] Liberty in some places and not others, after that they return to ATT LTE Matt Van [10:35 AM] Optico is up :heavy_check_mark:2 Tomas Irizarry [10:48 AM] @mikerostx dude ITDRC sounds super interesting. Do you know if there is anything like a mobile datacenter where a community could set up a WAN for services/communication? Tomas Irizarry [10:48 AM] in the event private networks are down Mike Rosado:house_with_garden: [10:53 AM] replied to a thread: @mikerostx dude ITDRC sounds super interesting. Do you know if there is anything like a mobile datacenter where a community could set up a WAN for services/communication? We (ITDRC) have volunteers with boots on the ground in Puerto Rico. @Ruth Silva is one of a dozen or more people there working on these efforts. Tomas Irizarry [10:55 AM] Thats amazing. I dont know what I can contribute but I’ll join and see where I can . (edited) Mike Rosado:house_with_garden: [10:57 AM] Always plenty of ways to contribute and have corporations volunteer their employees to help those in need. :wink: Tomas Irizarry [10:57 AM] actually.. [10:57 AM] now that you bring that up [10:58 AM] we’re actually in the middle of deciding what non-profits to disburse our donation fund to [10:58 AM] let me check what the process is and I’ll put in ITDRC for discussion Mike Rosado:house_with_garden: [10:59 AM] When Maria hit :flag-pr: , I was deployed for several weeks to help out. Trust me, there's plenty to contribute and do. :wink: