Elon Musk readjusts Starlink satellites to assist Florida soon after Hurricane Ian

Jenny Goldsberry

Oct 01, 07:00 PM October 01, 07:00 PM

Gov. Ron DeSantis declared Saturday that Elon Musk is altering his Starlink satellites to serve Floridians impacted by Hurricane Ian.

DeSantis manufactured the news although taking part in a press meeting in Hardee County's Wauchula, standing guiding a established of SpaceX person terminals that permit individuals close by to hook up to the internet via its satellites. The billionaire Tesla and SpaceX CEO repositioned satellites over the influenced components of Florida to support with connectivity, the Florida governor stated. The on-the-floor terminals are termed "Dishy McFlatface."

"We are happy to be ready to provide that below," DeSantis said of the terminals.

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The Florida governor is touring the state now that Hurricane Ian still left Florida toward the conclude of Thursday. It has since been categorized as a tropical storm.

"It can be better than the final time I was right here," DeSantis explained. "Now we're below serving a ton of flood."

DeSantis claimed he met a resident whose complete home was underwater. Guiding his podium there was a Florida Division of Crisis Management truck, which was dispatched a vehicle to Hardee County ahead of the hurricane strike. On Sunday's weather forecast Hardee wasn't in Ian's anticipated monitoring cone.

"You have people below who've long gone by way of a good deal of hurricanes, this a person had a lot more h2o than any of those hurricanes by considerably, DeSantis mentioned. "So it was a condition where you truly had existence-threatening flooding going on in some of the neighborhoods."

There is even now no date on returning to schools per the Commissioner of Instruction Manny Diaz.

Musk disclosed before this year that he was leaning towards supporting DeSantis in the 2024 presidential election, need to he make a decision to operate. DeSantis expressed pleasure when requested about the in the vicinity of endorsement soon following, joking to reporters that he was "focused on 2022, but with Elon Musk, what I would say is I welcome aid from African Americans.

"What can I say?" he additional jokingly.