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Yeah . Mhm .

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Yeah ,

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my name is Stetson smith . I'm with the

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US Army Corps of Engineers Vicksburg

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District and I'm a civil engineer today .

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We're down here in South Louisiana at a

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very unique case for our hurricane IDA

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recovery efforts . Uh the houses that

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we're dealing with today are only

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accessible by boat . So uh that's

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brought a few challenges for us . So

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these houses are very difficult to

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reach because they're on the back by

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you in southern Louisiana . So we have

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to send out contractors on boats to to

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place these blue roofs on their route .

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This is the first case that I've seen

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where we've actually had to travel out

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by boat . I know that there have been

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more , but as far as me physically

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doing one , this this is the first case

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of anything like this that I've seen .

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So I've really been able to to put

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myself in these homeowners shoes . My

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parents were affected during hurricane

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Katrina and and we had a lot of our

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belongings that that got destroyed from

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the storm . So you really wanna to come

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out and help these homeowners out and

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by any means possible just to make sure

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that their belongings are safe and they

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have a safe place to live . It's a

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really unique situation and uh we've

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really gone above and beyond to help

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out all these homeowners to the best of

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our ability and I believe we've done

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the best job that we

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can .

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Yeah , yeah