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I have never ben prouder of your and your leadership than the day that happened and america owes you a grateful thanks for leading the charge and giving voice to that problem. But leonards courage and heroism just doesnt apply to his service to his country, not long ago when an intruder attacked his home and his family, leonard was there to stand up and protect them as well. And you shrug it off, leonard, but everybody who knows you knows that the outcome of that horrible moment was inevitable. That truth and justice were going to triumph because you were the one who was there at the right tim...

Withdraw that level of earthquake. Were designing for an 8. 0 and thats not what happened in japan in 2011. The earthquake that hit japan in 2011 was not what they were designing for and all the assumptions went out the window so thats food for thought. Thank you. Mr. Angelus. At Verizon Wireless we try to do it day in and day out to avoid interruption in services. We try to put all this in place but in the event they do happen, we have those redundant systems i discussed earlier. Weak route traffic from one side to another or from one switch to another and we test regularly to make sure they ...

Other lifeline providers and how systems should perform in an earthquake . Ill go ahead and talk about pg e. I would say first off weve designed our own standards for what should happen in an earthquake or any other major emergency. Our electric system is designed to worry about trees and wind and rain, which is what we see the most of, and tends to be the most damaging, but we have our own standards and our own expectations in terms of what our system should be able to withstand. Add david pointed out, the risk is that an event will occur that is greater than what you have prepared for. Thats...

Have an event that takes our services out or is greater than what were actually expecting and thats the challenge for all of us, all the service providers, is working together to figure out how to make that happen. Mr. Boland. This is where we fit into that link. We represent the utilities that protect and build the resill yepbs into the infrastructure. We fill a gap in attitude which is the relationships, distant and local relationships, cross boundaries between the multi disciplines in the utilities. We are able to cross those lines in the counties and step up to state operations so everybod...

Need cal fire, we need dwr, they are invested in restoring their Critical Infrastructure and its our responsibility to reach across those lines to get that kind of access to keep that kind of restoration underway. Thank you. Mr. Brig. In terms of establishing standards for resill yepbs, absolutely, we have done that. Again as i mentioned earlier, to get our customers to fund all these Capital Projects we did up a contract with them. This is what youre getting and this is what youre going to pay for. That had to be well defined as engineers need to know what to do and what to design for. Establ...