I can tell you the devastation is severe and it's widespread. She was in 2014. She was. She was in the school.

She got injured in 2014. All right.

In almost every community impacted, the rivers crested several feet above record levels from the floods of 1993. We have homeowners that think that they can stand it out and that they'll be fined and then fine. And then we're bringing additional resources into the situation for them to get in there and rescue the family. So if you get an evacuation order, please do what they've asked you to do.

Now, the emergency order that I signed allows us to start doing that paperwork, but we are not going to wait for the federal government to give us an approval or to collect any of that information. We start taking care of things now and making sure that when we get that done, we'll follow through the process in order to get compensated. Unfortunately, we've already had one death from the situation in the state that has resulted from the flooding. Because of respect for the family, I'm not going to share any details around that. All I'm going to say is that I want to remind everybody to remember the power of water and the flow of water and to stay away from flooded areas. Keep your children and your family members out of areas and looking at situations that may seem like something they haven't seen before, but it's incredibly them to be anywhere near this water flow that we're seeing today and that we're going to see for the next several days.

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