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Intensity of this history making storm. with powerful winds gusting over 150 miles an hour i ve never been in anyone hi like this. i was here during dennis. that was scary enough. reporter: torrential rains and a monster storm surge, hurricane michael slams into the panhandle. utter destruction. there s going to be a lot of good people hurting. reporter: the massive storm leaving behind flooded roads and damaged buildings, power knocked out to 10s of thousands of homes. members of the national guard and first responders have already been deployed. some residents who road out the storm are starting to clean up as well, one woman with her bare hands. the storm moving on, but the recovery here is just beginning. ....
Total amount of money that s ultimately going to be needed to begin to rebuild. this will replenish the disaster relief fund, but then there will be a second and larger emergency appropriations bill to make sure we compensate all these homeowners, businesses, and we repair our flood control system in houston and then expand it. we have got to talk about what we do in southeast texas to protect the largest concentration of chemical refining capacity in the country from another major hurricane. if this had been a hurricane that come ashore with a monster storm surge, the damage to the refining infrastructure of the united states is hard to imagine. we ve got to prepare for that eventuality. arthel: and well, i m going to move on because i want to keep going here. who would you say, congressman, is that greater risk at this stage of the disaster? well, at this stage of the disaster, we have got fortunately blue skies the last couple of days. ....
We have the people are most at risk who i m most concerned about who have had water in their homes since the storm passed through. we have never seen this before, this scale of rainfall and flooding so we need to make sure we compensate those homeowners. we need to make sure that we repair the flood control infrastructure but we also need to be sure that we have that we re preparing to build the that protects most of southeastern texas from a monster storm surge just as the galveston seawall has protected the city of galveston so successfully. arthel: you have been getting excellent reviews across the board regarding cooperation between federal, state and city officials. do you feel confident that residents will receive fema payouts in an expedited fashion so they can begin cleanup and rebuilding of their homes and businesses, plus, you know, many will need those funds for temporary housing? this is one of the things on the very top of my list. that s why i have been spending e ....