President obama, fema, the rest of the administrations team working hand in glove with their state team. In this case there was really a team. As i like to say there is no i in the word team. I should have the army corps of engineers has been particular in responding to Hurricane Sandy. Over the years, funded by a series of storm protection projects in maryland are polite, robust and strong, healthy systems. These types of projects criticized at the time by some on my opinion because they performed exceptionally well during sandy black hundreds of millions, maybe billions of dollars in damage. Ashur protection withstand storm surge in better then baked circe wells while also enhancing the environment. Although the project on our coast of their job, they were weakened or in the storm not require repairs so were not for mobility future storms. Unfortunately the northeast midatlantic received more frequent and larger storms like standing in the future. The 70 to find costeffective ways to
We went down to southwest florida for the second day in a row. We were able to do a little bit more extensive touring of some of the damage that we saw. And you have places like Fort Myers Beach, santa bell, some of those areas really where the front line got the massive storm surge and an extensive damage throughout there. You also have Charlotte County had damaged north north part of naples and collier county. The one of the things that were working on and is having staged all the power and everything is the restoration of services right now statewide, 85 of customers have power and the main outages are of course in lee and charlotte counties have the most as well as hardy. But then you also have about half out in collier, you have about half out in sarasota and then it really gets better in many other parts of the state until you get seminoles, about a third out of 40 out. Evolution is about 50 out, flagler is probably about 40 to 50 out, but then it gets much better as you get to s
Working on is having staged all the power and everything is the restoration of services. Right now statewide, 85 of customers have power. And main outages are, of course, in lee and charlotte counties had the most as well as hardy but then you also have about half out in collier. You have about half out in sarasota. And then it really gets better in many other parts of the state until you get seminole is about a third out or 40 out. Volusia is about 50 out. Flagler is about 40 to 50 out. Then it gets much better as you get to st. Johns and jacksonville and nassau county. Theres over 42,000 folks staged. They went in immediately. They went in immediately to try to minimize those disruptions and, really, theyre adding more customers back online every hour. I think its probably what would you say, about 100,000 every hour or two . So we feel we feel good about most of that. I would say the biggest challenge of power restoration will be in those areas that bore the brunt of the category 4p
Those are of us in delaware look forward to look working with you to recover and rebuild as always better protect ourselves from future storms that are likely to come our way. Thanks. Thank you very much, senator. Senator cardin. I would like my entire statement to be included in the record. Thank you so much not just for convening this hearing but for your leadership in dealing with these issues not only in responding to the needs of the communities and individuals who are impacted by these winter events but your leadership directing this committee to look at ways in which we can make our communities less vulnerable. Sandy was a devastating storm. Many lives were lost as a result of the storm bond seven in my state of maryland. Eight billion people on the east coast of the United States at some time were without power at the results of sandy. Maryland fare much better than our surrounding states. We sent a lot of our resources to help our friends in new york and new jersey and other s
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