in houston people look to the harris county flood control district which is one of the agencies tasked with reducing flood risk for the larger metropolitan area. since harvey it's been focused on recovery clearing debris making repairs and preparing for the next door. hoping you know. well we were in town the agency which is headed by a judge at image held a press conference for those residents who experienced the flood in two dozen fifteen a flood in two thousand and sixteen and now flooding two dozen seventeen are you doing enough for those residents no that's our hope or. should the county prioritize efforts to help communities who have a harder time recovering from a party like it's you know i think recovering is one thing mitigation is something else recovery there are prioritized but in terms of mitigation you know it's a question of making our community safe and so we're people who live in this more question of hydrology you know we need to look at. but critics say that approach focuses on scientific technicalities and ignores the reality that some communities have been historic

we know we have to do better on the flood infrastructure, both working with the core of engineers and in harris county, we have a harris county flood control district. we tax ourselves to keep from flooding in harris county so we can partner with the core and, but it's essential that we fund the core of engineers, fema and other related agencies in our next supplemental and i'm concerned about puerto rico because their electric grid was in pretty bad shape even before and some of us were talking on the energy subcommittee a week ago, this may give us the opportunity for the united states actually to provide an electric system in puerto rico because i understand they're still burning fuel oil. again, coming from texas, we can put all the wind mills up and solar what you can't get with wind and solar we'd be glad to have an l and g import, export facility there because it will be much cleaner than fuel oil and probably cheaper because the price of natural gas is relatively cheap. and i'd like to ask-- i've driven around puerto rico and i don't live there and i don't represent it, but i know they need help in getting their literally the whole grid bac

take -- and we know we have to do better on the flood infrastructure both working with the corps of engineers. in harris county, we have a flood control district. we tax ourselves to keep from flooding in harris county so we can partner with the corps. it's essential to find the corps of engineers. i'm concerned about puerto rico because their electric grid was in pretty bad shape even before. some of us were talking on the energy subcommittee. this may give us the opportunity for the united states to actually provide an electric system in puerto rico. i understand they are still burning fuel oil. you know, again, coming from texas, we can put all the windmills up and solar. what we can't get, we would have an export/import center. cleaner than fuel. probably be cheaper, too. because the price of natural gas is relatively cheap. i'd just like to ask if you're familiar because like i said, i don't live there and i represent it, but i know they need help in getting their literally the whole grid back up. is that something that we could look at through the department of energy to see if we could redo the grid in puerto rico? to where it would be

flood control district. we tax ourselves to keep from flooding. and harris county. so we can partner with the core and but it's essential that we fund a core of engineers, fe ma and related agencies. in the next supplemental. i'm concerned about puerto rico because their grid was pretty bad shape even before. and some of us were talking on the energy subcommittee a week ago. this may give us the opportunity for the united states actually provide an electric system in puerto rico. i understand they're burning fuel oil. again coming from texas, we can put all the windmills up and solar. what you can't get we would be glad to have export import facility there. one it would be much cleenser than fuel. cleaner than fuel. probably cheaper too. the price of natural gas is cheap. i'd like to ask if you're familiar. driven around puerto rico but i don't live there. i know they need help in getting their the whole grid back up. is that something that we can look at through the department of energy to see if we can redo the grid in puerto rico to where it would be brought up t