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CNN CNN Newsroom With Poppy Harlow and Jim Sciutto August 30, 2021 13:09:00

careful with these storms. often times there's a lag time, right, in terms of how bad the damage is, how many people are in danger. do you have any sense -- you've got a lot of experience in the midst of hurricanes like this one, of just how bad this was. >> well, you can count on a lot of impassable roads, of course, l low-lying areas, roads flooded. we have to first get out there and, you know, make sure we have our crews in front of us that have chainsaws and atv vehicles, whatnot, to clear pads to get there. of course, that's the biggest part, is routing everybody in safely. pl places like tuesday ton and all, we don't have much trees in downtown hughes on in those areas to deal with but having to deal with all the destruction, devastation, debris is blown around as well as trees and power lines. you can't just go and cut a tree that's on the road. so there's a lot of navigation we have to do there.

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