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First thing would be to
take a yellow dot and put it on the
map over here as close as possible to where you live
and then inside you'll see a bunch of large
poster boards with long term recovery
project ideas, and post-it notes with your thoughts on
and we double do it, and do something
different, if you need pens we have pens.
Thank you so much for coming out.
I'm Tim Gelston with FEMA's
ESF-14 group. We're also known as
Long Term Community Recovery.
Tonight's meeting or event is here
in the Jim Hill Middle School
in Minot, North Dakota.
We've asked the community to turn out tonight
to help us prepare a long term community recovery
plan for the Souris River Basin area.
The event this evening is asking folks to
come and give us their input on a variety of
different topics relative to community.
Including housing, agriculture, jobs,
businesses, infra structure, flood protection.
Pretty much whatever folks want to talk about.
We're here collecting comments.
We'll turn around the comments and
give them back to the community here
in the next few weeks and
we'll be focused on creating
this plan and putting a
draft plan together by November.
The Minot area has experienced
incredible natural disaster.
4,000 structures in deep water.
2,000 possibly damaged beyond repair.
I thought it was an excellent meeting tonight.
I came here from Bismarck,
really not knowing what to expect.
I thought it would be someone
up in the front of the room
talking behind a podium,
and I walked in and I found
all of these various stations
organized by topic,
and people attaching
little sticky notes to the boards
with their comments.
I thought it was an excellent format.
There must have been hundreds and
hundreds of comments posted
and that gives us a chance to see
what each and every person
had to say, and what each and every
person thought when they came
in the room.
And that's going to be very, very helpful.