Ruby has gone now – “goodbye Ruby, Tuesday” is apparently becoming a popular song here. But the cleanup work is only just starting. Celina spends a lot of the day trying to UAV stuff sorted out; we get word that the team is getting imagery in the worst affected areas, and she works on getting that data stored and back to the mapping groups that need it.
Response teams are moving into the field – many by boat because they can’t get flights. Requests still come in – one for an assessment of damage to communications and media stations (I suggest that Internews might have a list for this, then find that Agos is tracking communications outages. I stop with the lunchtime work and get back to the day job.
ACAPS puts out an overview map but still need a rainfall map for it. Maning from the Philippines observatory just happens to have one (he’s been working on this for a while).
6pm: A government sit rep has data in it that needs scraping: I get out the pdf tools. Cometdocs dies on it, so I move over to PDFTables. We will slowly teach governments to release tables as datasets not pdfs. We will. The ACAPS HIRA work starts. First, I have some pdfs to scrape. Except the sitreps from http://www.ndrrmc.gov.ph are PDFs with images of excel spreadsheets cut-and-pasted in. Start reaching out, trying to find out who has the original datafiles, but rein in when gently reminded that these things are political.