Karen Keith, former county commissioner, she and I, we went over to town and country area and place that had flooded once before in 1986 and was pretty devastating then. But to see what happened at that time In 2019 was in this modern day really put the stamp on, you know, what the late senator Inhofe and many others had worked on prior to me coming into office about taking care of our levees, protecting some 10,000 citizens on the west side of the city and sand springs area. And then, you know, going and touring the pump stations and seeing, you know, whiskey bottles literally as the ballast for the pumps and the floats. (07:01–07:18)
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Asserts that efforts to take care of levees protect approximately 10,000 citizens in the west side of the city and Sand Springs area.
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