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Perhaps five to six feet, depending on the home. These houses are raised in the traditional style. Maybe not raised enough. This style of home, this is a double shotgun. What is great about these houses is, first being built for these environments, they are raised. Water can go underneath them. They can be ventilated. They have windows and doors on all sides. Good for air circulation. But the construction is what the best thing about it. It is cyprus framing and it is the old river cyprus that grows in water. So it doesnt get flood damage. Many of these people have hard line floors which strai...

Notices. So point three is everybody better exercise what can happen but also what might happen thats really dark and awful. And that requires leadership, that requires time and training. And a lot of people are not doing it. And thats worrisome. After that, actually a few years ago, rand had a sabrini panel. I was a member of that too. There were only two of us who were laymen. There were army generals, steve abbott, fourstar navy admiral, was the chair, i was the vice chair. It was chemical, biological, nuclear and radiological event. That was what was exercised. And we concluded, to our hor...

When we heard the bad news about the store. This is the wh oc radio. 1000 watts of pure pleasure it is called. He says the storm is coming. This is called katrina. He says that could be the end of time. Thats the way it sounded to me so i was up there visiting and i thought this would be the end of time. I wanted a something that is what to do in my life. So i went to the training depot, stood next to the track because i knew the train is coming out of south mississippi and i wanted to stand as close as i could and see how close i could get my nose to play chicken with the train. I heard that ...

Right now, if youre not under evacuation you still should be ready to leave. Hurricane irma looking like floridas worstcase scenario. It has the making of a catastrophic storm the likes of which the state has never seen. The majority of florida will have major hurricane impacts with deadly storm surge and lifethreatening winds, if youre still in the keys get out now. We will quickly run out of good weather to evacuate. David areas on the coast could see storm surges of water up to 12 feet. That is higher than the elevation of most of southern florida. We have complete coverage in this hour. Me...

I call the committee back to order. Thanks to the first panel and we appreciate your testimony and i would like to welcome the second panel of witnesses before the committee. First we have ms. Botts, executive director for agriculture and rule of element, position which she was named in 2013, she has over 15 years of experience working in agriculture and helping individuals in rural areas understand issues related to policy and financing. You could be of help to individual sentors i would imagine. She pent ten years working in agriculture at federal level as policy staffer in the house of repr...