It was that so many buildings and key pieces of infrastructure were flooded or ultimately destroyed during that storm. And in my research, i spent a lot of time at the National Hurricane center, and the meteorologists there who were incredibly talented kept telling me the same thing over and and over again and that was, you know, were just not very good at this. Were just still not very good at forecasting and predicting these storms. Were still not very good at preparing on the front end for the kind of havoc that is wreaked by these storms. And we saw that in 2017 with hurricane maria, we saw that with hurricane hugo. And as i was leaving and thinking about the questions of infrastructure and prediction and how it is that we respond to Natural Disaster, it to occurred to me that, you know, for all that is powerful about a hurricane, theyre nowhere near our most powerful natural phenomenon, you know . When you think of the sheer sort of explosive power, earthquakes are exponentially s
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Were trying to stay on time here, side like to get started as soon as possible. Good afternoon. Im malou harrison, and i like to welcome you back to this session at Miami Book Fair, 2017. If you were here this morning and you know Miami Book Fair very well, you know that the book fair is presented by miami dade college, and thousands and thousands of volunteers, among whom our students, faculty staff, administrators, and many, many, many individuals from the community and from the corporate sector as well. In fact, our corporate sponsor, the main corporate sponsor is awake l this year and we are very, very grateful ohl for a sponsorship and its support. We are also grateful as i mentioned in previous session to the circle of friends of Miami Book Fair bit and i know that you are here in abundance this year as you have been in past years since 1984 when our book fair beget and would like to extend a special thank you to our circle of friends. And so without further ado i like to call mr
Jonathans belter is the president and ceo of a trade association called u. S. Telethon. He is our guest on the communicators. Could you represent . I represent americas broadband providers, companies both large and small who are coming from every part of the nation, almost every state and we are all found by a simple set of principles. We want to be able to deliver the best quality, highest Speed Broadband to all americans regardless of where they are. Theres work to do because there are still americans who dont have broadband. We are aligned to make sure we can provide ubiquitous access for all americans. Was the companies you represent. This month i was able to fly out to alaska. I flew down to western new mexico and both were focused on Rural Communities and extending nextgeneration Broadband Services to them. All the way up to companies that are national in scope and at t and verizon and century link and consolidated frontier, windstream, its a consortium of companies who are very