We have a very experienced team of department directors and key staff, they have dealt with storms before. none this strong, i don t believe, but nonetheless, they know what to do and how to do it, so we have gotten a quick start on the recovery process, relocated a lot of debris out of the roadways, so that our normal services for sanitation and solid waste can start, and the people in the community can drive around. we had some things here we have not seen in the past, such as our yacht basins, some of the moats were piled up, and some were thrown out, washed out of the yacht basin or the marina, vehicles were carried down the street, relocated me and damaged . have some water and some homes, and some wind damage, but we have had wind, and high rains, with previous storms,
Classified. not sure that is a fact, but you have an incredible new piece of reporting that puts all of this history together, and i want to read some of it, katie benner. you write about meadows role specifically in standing between trump and his sticky fingers and the national security documents and you write this, meadows assured aides from the hurried packing up of the white house would follow requirements about the press vagsz of documents and he said they would make efforts that they would comply with the records act. the white house emailed all its offices detailing instructions about returning documents and cleaning up spaces. meadows followed up on those moats and encouraged offices to comply and that s according for a person he said he would talk to trump including one
To refuse to give into that kind of despair is the kind of healing the pain creates a better community or better society where people may feel more comfortable reaching out to law enforcement or talking to each other about things that concern them. but i think if we give into the fear, then we all just dig moats and retreat behind them and hide in our own bunkers, and that s how societies become unravele, d eventually. tom, you also write a book changing this cultural conversation. there are advocates who have worked in space around guns, and see that is one theory of change, and of really shifted their work to be about young people and the conversations we have with young people about guns. gun culture, and the beginning to understand that this may be a ten, 15, 20-year project when we want the next generation to come up believing that they are more safe in a world without guns. your sense of what it will take to shift america s thinking about our relationship to guns?
That type of environment. maybe i m being overly optimistic or pollyannaish, but to review this to give into that kind of despair is the kind of healing the pain creates a better community or better society where people may feel better reaching out to law enforcement or talking to each other about things that concern them. but i think if we give into the fear then we all just dig moats and retreat behind them and hide in our own bunkers, and that s how societies become unraveled eventually. tom, you also write a book changing this cultural conversation. there are advocates who have worked in space around guns, and see that is one theory of change, and of really shifted their work to be about young people and the conversations we have with young people about guns. gun culture, and the beginning to realize that this may be a ten, 15, 20-year project when