 Thank y'all again for being here. Obviously we know that sometimes these press conferences can seem repetitious and redundant, but they are fundamentally necessary to making sure that we all do, we can do together to keep our citizens safe. Again, I'm not going to be long. I'm going to touch on a couple of topics and certainly have our partners and our incredible city staff leadership. I'll speak to some of the areas of the subject matter expertise and then we'll wrap up. Hopefully this will be a short update. We saw significant rain and winds across the midlands, certain parts of town, hit a lot tougher than others. I think depending on where you were, so between two and six inches of rain, we saw some significant winds as high as 45 miles per hour. I think as a 2 p.m. scanner reported that 24,000 citizens were still without power. They seem to be on a pretty serious pace across their system with just under 4,000 here in Richland County. They seem to be on a pretty significant pace to restoring power to everyone. We got 44 specific tree related calls across the city, multiple calls regarding limbs down and trees down on power lines. We saw moderate call volume and we firmly believe that a lot of the work that Ms. Wilson, incredible staff and all our partners did in preparing for the storm has helped to again mitigate some of the effects that we've been normally seeing if we weren't involved in pre-staging areas that we knew were going to flood and constantly communicating with our partners and our citizens. We saw moderate call volume to both the Columbia Police Department and the Columbia Richland Fire Department. We certainly saw some significant flooding in places that we expected, Maine and Welley. That air was blocked off and we saw no significant issues there because of the proportionary measures in place. We're starting to see the benefit of some of the incredible investments the city and our ratepayers have been making over the last several years. And Ms. Shealy might speak to it as well. But over the last five years, the city has invested over $100 million in four specific sewer infrastructure projects. Today, those projects saved the city about 20 million gallons of spillage from reaching rivers and streams. So these types of smart investments in our infrastructure and our city are paying off for the long term. We're proud to be joined by our entire team here. We're going to go ahead and let everyone do their traditional updates. We're also joined by, of course, by our educational leaders as well. We call this one, this is quickly as we call all the others several of our partners that had conflicts. Everyone seems to be very happy with the results. We're fortunate. We are praying for those incredible images we're seeing come out of Florida and those who are still in the path of what's left of the storm. And we're going to continue doing the things that we do best when we are out of danger. We're going to help our neighbors and our friends rebound from this storm. I think I can turn it over to Chief Obram. Good afternoon. What a difference 12 hours makes. Beginning about 4 am this morning is when we started really seeing the effects of the storm. As the mayor said, our call volume was moderate. We answered 254 calls for service during the storm. We responded to 14 vehicle accidents and that really is a fairly normal day for us. We had trees down. We would communicate quickly with the forestry in our public works department and immediate response. And they got roadways clear. The share facet that we share that they had similar experience responded to a number of trees down in roadways, but they were quick quickly cleared. The pre-stage and barricades in our areas we know are prone for high water work remarkably well. We didn't have any water incidents. And we really appreciate the response we get from our citizens when we ask for their assistance. They really seem to pay attention and listen to our words of caution. It was a great team effort today. I'm glad to be part of that team. Thank you. Good afternoon. I'll call volume between the hours of five and about nine. One of about 57 calls. And at the end of the day we ran about a little over 100 calls between four o'clock up to four o'clock. So again, we're glad that the public did take heed to the safety measures that we'll give it out to make sure you don't take care of safety as far as candles and generators and stuff like that. We ran several calls, several power lines down, and several trees down as well. We also ran a little moderate smoke inside the structure due to electrical problems that they would have. But one call we ran was around the avenue. We had a tree actually fell on the house. And I tell you that was a the guy was pretty fortunate because the bed that you usually lay in, that's where the tree fell, but he happened to not be in the bed at the time. And but it was a good clever effort between the fire department, the cloning police department, forestry, as we had to extricate the person out of the house. So we're glad that he came. I was just moderate and non-light threatening interest. So we're just glad that again that the public just gave heed to the warrants. Thank you. Thank you, Jenkins. Assistance to the manager, Ben Shealy. Want to be awarded. Good afternoon. I'd like to report that our call volume at our customer care center is very low as of about 30 minutes ago. The wait time is less than one minute. So we were not experiencing a high volume of calls at this time. But if customers do have any issues, they can call 803-545-3300 report those and we'll get right right right to it. On the drinking water side, we fared very well. We didn't have any service interruptions that we're aware of. We had a few minor power outages that were quickly resolved. Our Columbia Canal is in great shape. And so things are looking really good there. On the wastewater side, when you have high intensity rain events, it can be a real challenge for a collection system. We had any time you have surface flooding that it's tight as you try to keep your collection system, that water is going to flow into manholes. And so at our wastewater treatment plant, we did fare well. But we saw our flows increase from around 40 million gallons a day up to 120 million gallons a day in less than six hours. So it was a very steep rise in our flow rate there. But our staff handled that very, very well. In our collection system, we had at the height of the storm, we had 10 of our pump stations without power. But we worked with SC&G and appreciate them helping us so quickly. As of about an hour ago, we had three stations still without power. One was running on generator power, one off a diesel pump, and the other were pumping and hauling to make sure we don't have any wastewater escape the collection system there. During the height of the storm and the peak rainfall events and the inflow that happens with that, we did have five sanitary sewer overflows. Public notification was made for four of those per our requirements based on the volume. Two were near Lake Catherine. One was in Penn Branch. One was near Crane Creek. And one was down off of Bluff Road. So notifications had been made. And I would like to reiterate what the mayor has said. I think specifically about the storage tanks that we put in several years ago at this near our Saluta River pump station. We put about 6 million gallons of wastewater in those storage tanks today. That would not have had a place to go had those storage tanks not been there. And so that would have escaped our system and gone to the environment. Speaking about that steep increase in flow in our wastewater treatment plant, had we not invested $43 million about five, little over five and a half years ago, we would not have been able to handle that increase in flow. And so that some of that wastewater would have escaped also. So the investments are paying off. We're not proud of any escaping, but we did have a few overflows. We're working on those cleaning those up right now. Again, I would like to acknowledge our staff for their hard work. It was a tough evening and a tough day, but they've done a remarkable job. And I really appreciate their efforts. Thank you. I also want to thank the citizens of Columbia, police and fire and others for getting the calls out today to forestry in our street division. As of now, out of the a little over 40 calls we've done, we've got about three spots left in town that we will clean up before the days over. So tomorrow is a new day for us. We will actually go out again, start cleaning our storm brain system, start making sure that we break our storm brains and get everything open back up. I also want to remind everybody tomorrow is the garbage collection day that if your garbage is usually collected on Thursday, it will be collected on Friday. And if it was collected on Friday, please put your cards out and we will serve you some on Saturday. Thank you. Several of our partners here today, Craig Witherspoon, Superintendent Richmond-Wong. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Good afternoon. Certainly with the work of city and county staff with the trees and so forth, we didn't experience any damage to our building. So tomorrow, we will be operating on normal schedule, regular schedule for students and staff. Tomorrow is a half day for students that was already planned. I certainly want to thank our transportation and our maintenance staff. Whenever we have these types of events and we're trying to get people home, our maintenance staff, security and transportation, they're out traveling the roads to see if we're able to when we're able to resume normal operations. So we certainly thank them as well and to our parents and everyone again, thank you so we can get back to the business of educating our kids. Thank you. Dr. Christina Melton-Lexington, Rich and Fine. Thank you, Mayor. Good afternoon, everyone. What a strong statement this makes that public education is included with announcements like this. So, Mayor, thank you for your vision. We thank all of our partners. We have had on-site reviews of our facilities. We're ready to reopen tomorrow. Unlike my neighbors and Rich's one, we have a full day for students tomorrow for both students and staff. We do resume field trips tomorrow for those that have been pre-scheduled and also athletic events will be resuming tomorrow evening. We ask our families to log into our website this evening because we will have an alteration with our lunch menu for tomorrow because our delivery was disrupted today. So families, if you'll join our log into our website this evening, you'll be able to see our updated menus so that you know what to expect on our menu for tomorrow. Dr. Marshall and Franklin, Richland too. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. District officials have assessed the conditions of our roads and campuses. We're grateful the impact of the storm is minimal and doesn't include anything that would prevent us from resuming standard operations tomorrow. When it comes to our employees and students, safety is priority one. Teaching and learning priority two. And we look forward to returning to priority two tomorrow when we welcome back our employees and our 28,000 students operating on our regular schedule. Okay, John-Ando, the comment. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. The comment, we're grateful for the work that the city was able to do and the county as it relates to the roadways. We did suspend service earlier this morning due to high winds and some congested roadway conditions. We did resume service at 11 a.m. and we are going to continue to have regular service tomorrow. If passengers need further information, they can contact us at 803-255-7100 for a route and schedule information. Of course, happy to be joined by Councilman Duvall and Councilman Jackson from City Council and County Council, respectively. And Dalton Tresman always here on behalf of Congressman Clyburn. Thank you so much. I'm going to wrap up and then obviously I'm not sure if Director Tinsley and another city manager is going to want to have some final words. I want to thank the two of them specifically, Teresa Wilson and Harry Tinsley, the incredible work that they do, the constant communication, the constant sharing of needs and desires, the clear roles and responsibility everyone plays focused on the very simple goal of keeping our citizens safe and alive and doing everything we can to protect public infrastructure and private property. It doesn't just happen. It takes incredible leadership and these men and women assembled behind us working together are doing the great work. I will say this, our focus is regional. If you'd had an opportunity to sit on some of the calls that we've had, we're not just talking about what happens in the four corners of the city of Columbia, but really aggressively trying to understand how lives are being impacted in this region but also in other parts of the country as well. We leave here today very happy that there's no loss of life, but also very cognizant of the fact that several lives and families have been disrupted by the storm here in the Midlands of South Carolina. Some people have lost property that can never be replaced. Some will be suffering because of that. Several will lose days off of work in a very income volatile situation. We want to make sure we're cognizant of that, making sure that, I guess my plea is that anyone who's within the sound of other ways, if you can do anything, as an employer, as a neighbor, as a friend, as a family member to help address the needs of some of our friends and family who may still be suffering because of the effects of Hurricane Michael, a tropical storm Michael, let's make sure that we do that. Let's make sure we do that. Do the microphone to city manager to resource? We just want to say thank you together and I could not do the job. I do certainly. We work as a team and so I thank Mayor Benjamin and Mr. DeVall, all of city council, county council for allowing staff to do their jobs. We take it very seriously as public servants and I wanted to take this time to because I think it often goes unsaid and I think I can speak for all the entities here to thank our families. You know, they understand and tolerate all of us because when we're here doing this work, they're at home and taking care of our families. And so I just wanted to say a special shout out to all the families of public servants who understand what it means to serve and we appreciate them for allowing us to do our jobs as well. Harry? I would just like to say I thank you for the collaboration and the team effort that we do. Our goal is to be ready, responsive and resilient and we do a lot of planning. We do a lot of leaning forward in our decision making, but it's these partners and everyone that's working together to make it happen. We stand ready in the EOC, our staff that was on task today, processed a lot of information. They work very hard too. So a lot of behind the scenes work, but we just appreciate the support and what you do. Thank you.