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Talk about manville and, you know, my heart was breaking all over again because we re facing the same thing. i know fema has been on the ground here. we have submitted all of our documentation. we need our community needs help. we re not the only one, but we need help and we need help immediately to help residents rebuild and get their lives back together. but we need long-term help. there s a federal flood control in washington for longer than i care to think about, and that has got to stop. that has got to get under way. i don t know how many more times towns like cranford, manville, can deal with this. do the fema maps need to be updated? if you look at the maps and pair them against the actual flooding, the storms you ve seen over the last few years, are ....
Those maps reflecting the impact of climate change? well, they re probably closer than they ever have been, but the point is you can have a storm like ida, and in cranford we had two flood emergencies. we had the river flooding, which the flood maps would be involved with. but we had that floosh flooding, which impacted a huge swath of our town, 90% of our town was impassable. and that had nothing to do with the river. it had to do with the flash floods. so we have people who didn t typically flood, and i m looking at pictures, and this continues to break my heart. people who aren t usually affected, they were. if i can just tell you a quick story, when i listened to that little boy before, i was at the evacuation center overnight and they brought this family in. and they had a 5-year-old son, ....