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Really, really in a tough spot. and i'm frustrated because earlier in march i had asked point blank secretary mayorkas with all of the considerations that we have at hand, global pandemic, a surge at the southwest border and a very, very busy hurricane season, would fema be prepared. he reassured me repeatedly they had all the resources necessary, yet we were caught a little flat-footed in preparation for this particular region for this storm. we're still in the middle of it. there's a lot of power outages, storm linger as a tropical storm so we're waiting to see really what the damage is look...

By. water rescue, search and rescue. they've got all sorts of abilities to try and get people out. but we're going get high tide tonight between midnight and 1:00 a.m. over there, galleries, sunglass hut. not everything is boarded up. they're worried about the flooding. now about noon tomorrow, or 1:00 eastern, we're going to get high tide again. and that's when the worst of the storm surge is going to be. it will be fully six hours before the hurricane is as close to this as it should be. but it's actually going to be more damaging at about noon to 1:00 tomorrow. and the concern here, as you ...

We say for a number of hours. now, it is still a category 3, a major hurricane capable of causing catastrophic damage. it is moving extremely slowly, and now the guiding winds that normally propel a hurricane out of the area have apparentliy fallen apart. and that's why wae may see this storm linger. and not just linger at a storm but linger as a hurricane. and that's what makes this emergency response extremely difficult. they're not going to go out if there's still high winds and debris being blown about by them. and feet of rain in some places. and that could isolate people who now have jus...