11 ordspråk av Bonnie Reed
Bonnie Reed
Communications is always where you fail in any disaster. It's something we need to really focus on.
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I'm having people come in every day. I've seen three people today, all families with children, who came in for utility assistance who've never asked before, ever.
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It would be nice if we had a couple thousand more dollars. It would really be helpful to these people.
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Oh my goodness, we've just been inundated. Since March 28, I've assisted 53 people, and that doesn't count people who are calling in just to check.
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Oh, that was because they broke into my home, illegally without a search warrant. It happened very early in the morning before my mother and I even got up to take our medicine.
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The thing that's really scary is now that we're out of the cold weather rule, a lot of the people we're seeing are coming in with average $600 gas or electric bills.
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This an animal abuse case. This is pure and simple murder.
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We already had an advantage over New York and Louisiana. We have the ability to call in resources and get them in quickly.
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We are prepared but we are learning a lot from what happened. It puts us on notice to do a better job. You can't always depend on the state or the federal government to be there for you.
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We need to identify those places where we could put large numbers of people.
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We're seeing people from different social groups who've never come in before, who don't know what to do, and they're just frantic.
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