We are moving very, very rapidly. As fast as I've ever seen our office and any of the agencies move. Thousands of people deployed almost instantaneously. And that was because We did the state of preparedness up front. And I think that makes a real big difference. I want to start by urging patience for a lot of people. I know that there's a lot of debris cleanup that's going on and that's important work. (00:56–01:00)
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Asserts that a state of preparedness was established before the flood recovery efforts.
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