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Greg Abbott: “Except for certain small regions of the state of Texas…”

Featuring: Greg Abbott, Republican | Governor of Texas

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Watch Live Gov. Greg Abbott gives update on the state's winter storm preparations

Published | Video Starts at 49:41

Is it too soon to be thinking about federal disaster with the administration on this whole? So way too soon. Again, this is, Except for certain small regions of the state of Texas, north and northeast Texas, [this is] not really considered to be a precipitation event. It's just going to be a very cold event and there's not anticipated to be any meaningful amount of damages that would arise. That would be a reason why we would get FEMA disaster declaration. (49:41–49:51)

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Asserts that the weather event is not a precipitation event except in small regions of Texas.

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