O.E.S. Project Web Log is posting about "Operation Enduring Service", a program that plans to retrofit mothballed combat stores ships and other obsolete but sea-worthy cargo ships to be able to provide complex emergency communications support that will be capable of replacing cell phone and radio towers lost in a hurricane. Crewed by the Coast Guard Auxiliary and supported by disaster-aid groups, these vessels could not only haul needed supplies to a coastal disaster area, but they could also transport first responders to a disaster zone while providing off shore housing to them.

Bob Owens (Confederate Yankee) is also posting about the plan here asking for support from the blogger world.