and he s out there trying to make the best of it. so and i ve also seen some of the great aspects, ed. one of the things i want to say, the better angels in people. it s amazing how you can see new jerseyians come together. a young woman from hoboken, whose basement apartment is flooded, has no idea what tomorrow brings. she s in a shelter helping other people, not even thinking about what tomorrow is for her. just one of when example. what can your residents expect? this is going to be a long road back, isn t it? it s going to be a slog. and just in hoboken, you re pumping 500 million gallons of water out so you can get, you know, the wires recovered and then, ultimately, hopefully get the electricity back on. so this is going to be a slog. you know, we have substations, generating stations that got flooded. those, when we get those back online, something i asked the president, with the energy department, to help us, any resources they have to be able to do that. he talked about
flooded, has no idea what tomorrow brings. she s in a shelter helping other people, not even thinking about what tomorrow is for her. just one of when example. what can your residents expect? this is going to be a long road back, isn t it? it s going to be a slog. and just in hoboken, you re pumping 500 million gallons of water out so you can get, you know, the wires recovered and then, ultimately, hopefully get the electricity back on. so this is going to be a slog. you know, we have substations, generating stations that got flooded. those, when we get those back online, something i asked the president, with the energy department, to help us, any resources they have to be able to do that. he talked about national utility companies, sending people to new jersey and airlifting them to c-130s and military transport, that s all great. because the sooner we can get those substations going, we re going to be able to open up electricity for large numbers of people. and that begins to imp