Governors in Washington, California, New York, Florida, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut have all issued emergency proclamations given increases in COVID-19. These declarations allow state governments additional resources, including the ability to swiftly implement a National Guard response.
It's like the "Old Weather" online project, which employs citizen-scientists in reading digitized reproductions of whaling logs and Navy and Coast Guard ship logs to produce a database of Arctic weather in the 19th and 20th centuries.
A 47-foot motor lifeboat from Coast Guard Station Brant Point responding to an emergency call of a kayaker in distress found the kayak off Nantucket on Sunday.