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Available to us 24 7 if we need them. We also have contractor arrangements, maybe its pipeline welding or Electrical Service work, line man work, and we also have Mutual Service agreements and pg e participates in those. We have sent folks to hawaii and we have sent folks back east and we have certainly sent folks to oregon and washington and idaho on a regular basis as we all in the west suffered through storms. So we have those activities in place and then of course we do just our normal Emergency Response activations on an ongoing basis just to make sure everyone is trained and veilable and...

About independence im not talking about both sides of my mouth here, but being independent, steering some of our stuff to satellite phones, no offense, our verizon friends, and our pg e friends, were not going to count on when things get bad. Steering some of this investment to independent providers we are not planning on depending on anybody. Not only does that make easier for me keeping more things under my control, it makes things easier for them because they will have one less person calling them. Even though its all about cooperation, sometimes independence comes into the conversation. Th...

Function through the state Utility Operations Center and the state Operations Center to make sure that we have that kind of access and that kind of assistance. We need caltrans, were going to need chp, were going to 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 th...

San andreas fault. Were working with other city departments so they know what to expect from us. Its been an education process. As we started down the road i think there was an expectation all water and sewer was going to be in operation in San Francisco after an ert quake. That probably is not going to happen. Its a little bit different having several blocks in your population out of water versus out of electricity or gas or cell phone service. Its a little bit different level of emergency. After an earthquake what were designing for is to have the high level fire system more or less immediat...

Disciplines in the utilities. We are able to cross those lines in the counties and step up to state operations so everybody is operating in a Common Operating Picture so everybody understands whats available not only in their jurisdiction, but what kind of resources we can bring to bear, short and longterm, how distant those are, what the qualifications are. We have master resource catalogs designed just like fire scope and cal fire in which we have built strike teams from our utilities, strike teams from water companies. They simply make a call and tell us we need 10, 12, 15, its our obligati...