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This storm crept up on florida in a way. are you concerned that the state is not fully prepared? is tallahassee fully prepared? >> yeah, well, i can tell you, tallahassee is prepared. we prestaged over 100 utility linemen in our community in advance of the storm. on thursday, we got another almost 500 total that are expected to be here to assist us in our repairing process. that's six times the normal utility linemen we have available to us. we've also got significant generation here for our lights, for our sewer system and our pumping stations. so, yes, we're prepared. and it is my hope that ...

Many are without housing, food, pure water, electricity, telecommunication, access to health care, transportation access. the notion that within a month 25% of power would be back, where would we accept this in the united states? >> why isn't the federal government doing more? >> it's the federal government and others, too. here is what else i noticed when i was there. when there's a hurricane in virginia and i go out to thank the work crews, utility linemen who go in to help out like our crews go to other states. there weren't other crews there when i was there. so, i'm not sure why puerto ri...