 Good morning, everyone. We continue to respond to historic and severe flooding in Vermont. Yesterday, as you know, I was joined by the FEMA administrator to evaluate damage and to turn the lights back on as we prepare for the recovery phase. Today, I will submit a request to President Biden for a major disaster declaration, which if approved would provide federal disaster relief funds which will be very helpful to communities in the recovery phase. That request will be reviewed by FEMA and then given to the President for his approval. To be clear, the disaster declaration provides federal support for recovery. It's separate from and in addition to the federal emergency declaration the President already signed when he was overseas to help with the initial emergency phase. The disaster declaration is one of the reasons it was important to have the administrator and members of her team here yesterday to see the enormous needs we have as we move forward. Next, unfortunately, in parts of the state we're now expecting severe thunderstorms, which could bring more flash flooding, hail, and even the threat of a tornado. Those are expected to come late this afternoon into the evening hours, so Vermonters need to pay attention to the weather reporting today and plan ahead. If you need to do something today, do it early. Don't wait until tonight. Flash flooding can happen quickly and you don't know when it could hit. As most of us have been doing, we used the law in the rain yesterday to prepare for what might be coming today and tomorrow, which Secretary Flynn and Commissioner Morrison will talk about more shortly. And again, I want to reiterate this isn't over and it won't be over after this storm. On Sunday, unfortunately, there's another chance for heavy rain statewide. I know this is hard news for many and folks will want to think this is over as soon as the weather breaks on Saturday, but it's critical that Vermonters understand that we need to remain vigilant and prepared. Do not be complacent. And as a reminder, be smart and use common sense. That means do not go in the water. We've seen many pictures on social media of kids swimming in floodwaters. This is not typical rainwater. It's filled with chemicals, oil, waste and more. It's simply not safe. Also, please continue to follow road closure signs. Do not put yourself in a position where rescue teams are diverted and put at risk themselves because you decided to take a chance. I assure you though, we'll get through this and we'll be stronger for it. For the time being, we still need to focus on the response and prepare for whatever comes our way over the next couple of days. And then we can move full time into the recovery stage. With that, I'll now turn it over to Commissioner Morrison. Thank you, Governor. Good morning. Thank you for being here to help us get important information out to Vermonters. I will provide information on the status of current operations, an overview of planning for anticipated hazards and various other updates, many of which might sound very much like what you just heard from the Governor, but they are so important, we will be echoing some of his remarks. There are no active rescue missions ongoing at this time. Our teams wrapped up yesterday's work shortly before 1 a.m. today and after a short rest break have been working on pre-positioning water and urban search and rescue assets for the next round of storms. We also have National Guard assets on standby. As of now, there are no reported fatalities. I'd like to provide some information on some of the shelters that are open in the state. This list does not include locally operated shelters. There are four American Red Cross regional shelters. In Barrie, there are 25 people in shelter. In Rotland, there are four. In White River Junction slash Hartford, there are zero. And at Northern Vermont University on the Johnson campus, there are 15 where a Red Cross trailer has been deployed to support that university site. There are two independent shelters and their status report is this. At the Fox Run Golf Club in Ludlow, there are six people in shelter and at Smuggler's Notch, there are 59. There are numerous other shelters that are on standby and are prepared to open if there is a need. The big news today, as the governor said, is upcoming severe weather later today and then again on Sunday. Specifically, there is dangerous weather forecasted for most of the state between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. today. This round of storms could contain severe thunderstorms with rain, lightning and hail. And as the governor said, the possibility particularly in the western part of the state is very high. This is a tornado. The likelihood of localized flash flooding is high. This is not expected to be a repeat of Monday and Tuesday, but it will be dangerous in the areas that experience flash flooding. People working outside should remain alert, have a plan and stay in tune with weather warnings. We are working around the clock to keep Vermont safe. Even as we maintain a response ready posture, we are simultaneously preparing for the emerging threats and later for recovery efforts. We are repositioning assets, communicating with our local partners, providing guidance to address known risks and more. We are preparing and we ask that you do the same. Let's get through tonight's storm safely so that we can pivot our attention to the recovery and preparing for yet another round of dangerous weather on Sunday. Here are some things that you can do to prepare. Plan ahead. Please see VEM.vermont.gov forward slash preparedness for details on how to prepare. There's a lot of resources on the Vermont emergency management page. Remain alert to weather conditions and warnings issued by the National Weather Service. If you have not yet signed up for VT Alerts, please do so at VTAlert.gov. If you see storm waters approaching, turn around and seek higher ground. Stay away from swollen rivers and waterways. The photo ops are just not worth the risk. Maintain situational awareness and have a plan if you find yourself in a storm-stricken area. Just because you may have fared well on the last round of storms does not mean you are immune to future danger. As the governor said, between four and eight is the most dangerous time for Vermonters today. Don't be outside running on the roadways or doing your errands then if you don't have to be. Heat this advice. Predictable is preventable. Today's threat is predictable. Please do not put yourself or your family at unnecessary risk. And please, do not put our first responder family at risk. Take care of yourselves and stay out of harm's way. And while I'm talking about families and putting people at risk, I have to echo what the governor said about storm waters. They are filled with oil, gas, sewage, chemicals, and more. They are foul and nasty. Do not let your kids play in storm water. It's not healthy. I want to wrap up by sending sincere appreciation to all who are working in our local, regional, state, emergency operations centers. Additionally, I'd like to thank the National Weather Service, the Red Cross, 2-1-1, Serve, Vermont, and all of our incredible partners. There are too many to list, but all of our incredible partners who are staffing the EOCs around the clock and keeping us up to date and ready to respond and ready to recover. Deputy Commissioner Batesy will be here following this presser for questions, and now I am turning it over to... Great. Deputy Secretary Gendron. Hi, good morning. My name is Maggie Gendron, and I'm the Deputy Secretary for the Agency of Natural Resources, and I have with me today Eric Blatt, who is our lead engineer for the dam safety program at the Agency of Natural Resources. The agency manages 100 state-owned dams, and we regulate about 800 private and municipal-owned dams. Our first and foremost priority right now is still the public safety and health of Vermont's communities, and so our attention is really focused on three flood control dams on the Winooski, which is in Waterbury, the Wrightsville Dam, and Eastbury Dam. I talked a little bit about this today, but we have full staffing at the Waterbury Dam and Wrightsville Dam, and we are periodically monitoring the Eastbury dam. So when it comes to Waterbury, our Chief Dam Safety Engineer is operating the dam in real time to maximize the flood storage there. We are monitoring closely so that after the Winooski rises to a certain height, we know to close the gates and to inform our Vermont Emergency Management folks. We are also engaged with the Army Corps of Engineers and a consultant that are familiar with the operation of those three dams, and they are working with us on completing the modeling that they provided to assess the impact of different levels of rainfalls on the ability of the dams to store water. This is really important information that we can then provide the Vermont Emergency Management and the towns downstream, which is all the way to Bolton so that we can make good decisions based on how the weather shifts. Right now, this is an important message for you to take away, please. It is on the current forecasted weather and the modeling. It is on the likely that we will have water flow over the spillway at Wrightsville. And this has not occurred to date. So we are incredibly unfortunate that the integrity of our dams have withstood these storms, and I would also like to put in another plug for Vermont Alerts, which has been an incredibly successful system in alerting Vermonters of real-time information that they need to know. The Agency of Natural Resources also has a dedicated flood page that gives Vermonters all kinds of information that they need to know from pumping out your basements to hazardous material and waste disposal. So thank you very much, and that is all I have to ask. Good morning. Before I go through the list of accomplishments and losses, four of each hands, I want to speak to two things. First, I want to correct a comment I made yesterday, which was that the floating bridge in Brookfield was gone. It was wrong. How that came about was our management center, our Transportation Management Center received a call from a local citizen who said they couldn't see the bridge. It looks gone. We dispatched the district person down there. This is, of course, amidst a rainstorm. And in fact, what the case was is the bridge had inverted and it wasn't on the upside floating, so it looked like it had sunk or disappeared. But I take full responsibility for that statement. This is the bridge is not destroyed nor gone. The second thing I'd like to address that just came to my attention this morning is a video that some of you may have seen of a B-Trans dump truck in high water after we have been talking about not driving in high water. When I saw the video, it clearly is not a flattering video but a little background. We were dispatching five vehicles to an intersection in Cambridge and I can get you that exact intersection location earlier that day to ensure no one else traveled to that intersection. Our crew was caught in a flash flood in rapidly rising water. Four of the five vehicles were able to back away and take refuge in and out of residents local homes who had allowed them to use restrooms, gave them water, and whatnot. The truck in that video was trapped for 30 hours. The driver in the truck. The morning that you see that that video was taken under the supervision of the manager for the region and I take full responsibility and agree with what he did through the radio was trying to alert the driver on how to extricate himself but I do have to admit it seems contrary to the guidance we're providing people and I felt it important to explain that because it's on social media. Happy to have any other questions offline after that. Now on to some current items. We are working with 31 private contractors now around the state. They are working with new trends and I thank them for their efforts and I'm certain there will be more. Our crews have been working through the night to prepare for the weather that you've heard both the governor and Commissioner Morrison talk about and secretary general. Our priority for the day today is to harden everything we can as quickly as possible to remove current obstructions armor banks armor slide areas and prepare for what is forecasted to come our way. Our crews as well will heed the warning about the time of day that will be the most severe and I would reiterate what my colleagues have said the modders need to pay attention especially later this afternoon don't be out doing anything you don't need to be doing. B-trans is also moving equipment from areas of the state that are encountering lower damages to areas in support of their other garages which have had higher damage. Our facilities report are central garage complex at the bottom of hospital hill including the B-trans training center and the district 6 capital region offices have received significant water damage and are not inhabitable. Central garage which is our maintenance work on our vehicles you may see a lot of vehicles parked up here we brought them here before the flood we were unable to get two vehicles out and they were lost in the flood Central garage will temporarily relocate to the NAP airport and staff will work out of the NAP airport terminal roads as of 7 a.m. this morning 24 roads remain closed a significant drop from yesterday and a significant drop from our first report which I believe I reported 81 at that time again these are state roads 8 roads remain partially closed or partially open depending on whether your glass is half full or open I'd like to say partially open one lane restrictions 28 roads have opened reopened in the last 24 hours since we spoke we are working feverishly today on U.S. Route 2 it may become passable but at extremely low speeds that heavy rain absolutely makes a mess of every effort to recover a gravel road it just does it washes away the material exposes the aggregate so we will follow the guidance on fine 1-1 I urge you to have your viewers and listeners go to 5-1-1 we are updating that by the minute literally as to the conditions on U.S. 2 for mileage reports completely closed state roads 62.7 miles partially open state roads 24.5 miles fully open since the start of the storm or fully restored 172 miles and I can give anyone who cares at another time based on districts and where those are more specific bridges we speak about inspecting bridges we inspected 49 bridges yesterday throughout the storm there will be minor repairs necessary on several bridges but as I said yesterday the currently only significant bridge damage on the state network is in first year and we are working with the contractor to put in a temporary bridge at that location I reserve the right to hold on until after we know what the weather tomorrow and Sunday bring but we are shooting for the 24th to restore mobility but again please put an asterisk next to that statement we did have to close bridge 42 on Vermont 30 in Jamaica yesterday that was not damaged to the point where it was closed initially but we needed to close it upon inspection we will have to do some work there to assess when that can be reopened the water level is too high and it's too dangerous for inspectors to do much more at that point rail all rail trails continue to be closed Washington County railroad line which runs from White River Junction to Newport has now been fully inspected and I'm pleased to report there is not much damage what is there can be managed the Vermont rail systems is going to conduct repairs and open the line up we hope from Monroe from Barton to Newport from Barry to Montpelier on the Wacker site inspections continue today as I reported yesterday there is significant damage we don't yet have a timeline for re-establishing service the VTR line between Burlington and Rutland has now been fully inspected Vermont rail systems is hoping to provide more concrete information but with luck that should possibly be addressed and reopened this weekend as soon as that is done the Amtrak train set which has been stranded in Burlington will leave but that is not saying Amtrak will have restored service at that point Amtrak would like to get that train out of here until everything is fully restored across its network the Green Mountain Railroad between Rutland and Bellas Falls as I have been reporting remains the railroad line with the greatest amount of damage at this time I do not have an assessment as to when that will be fully restored but there is significant damage in places along that line and the CP Canadian Pacific which runs through Newport to Richford Vermont and obviously originates in Quebec has some damage as well heavy railroad equipment is being brought in to conduct repairs for that all 10 Vermont State airports are fully functional clearly there are some additional operations occurring across the street at NAP as you see and for the two dams that B-Trans owns there are no issues thank you thank you all we will now open it up to questions for the governor's easy declaration that FEMA has to look over and then send it to Biden I guess do you have any type of timeline of when these federal resources could be coming in or how long that process is going to take we don't know exactly but it will open the door almost immediately for help to arrive and that's why, as I said before it was so important for the administrator to come at the request of the president to make sure she saw for herself the damage that we are seeing ourselves so it would be I would say it would be fairly quick but it's up to them in layman's terms the difference between what you're requesting of the president today versus the declaration that he already issued on one Tuesday I mean we declare the state of emergency ourselves for that's a state emergency and that opens up resources that we can utilize within the state so the federal government the president signed another emergency declaration seeing that there's an emergency in the state that opened up some resources well this request is something that's typically after the initial emergency when you're in recovery and that takes a little bit of time but because of the severity of damage here in the state and the likelihood that we will get and meet those thresholds they advise that why don't you go ahead and request it now that way we can get through some of the paperwork so to speak so we can get the help to those in need so it was part of their advice to move forward with that and that's why again she came up on quick notice the president wanted to make sure that they were doing all they could to help us so it's infrastructure help as well as residential yeah it'll open up a lot of other resources and I don't have them all because they fit when and if it is signed but it does open up the door to many more resources in the recovery phase not everything so typically again it's just to open up resources for the emergency itself and then think about that in terms of different phases, emergency recovery I would not dare give you that information because I don't know it would just be a guess and I don't think I should be guessing from the podium because there's so much damage that we haven't seen yet locally and so much residential damage and business damage and agriculture and not that this is separate but again in totality it's significant I mean we do have rainy day funds and other funding but this wasn't something we planned for. Sure so it depends on the amount of damage there's a threshold where match becomes a 10% match as opposed to a 25% match will determine whether or not we exceed that threshold once we have a better idea of the damage we do have $15 million set aside in the FEMA reserve in this budget by this legislature and we can certainly utilize portions of that money if necessary much of that money was reserved for FEMA claims that have already been made and may be denied so it's yet to be determined if that money will be available but that's certainly a start 25 or 10 actions will that be entirely state funded or will it be shared with people? It depends on what pot of FEMA would be available but for the state section it would be entirely state shared and we can't use insurance proceeds towards that match payment. What is that for? We can have it's a joint effort so we have AOT district techs out they're doing their damage assessments we have what's called a local liaison activation so we use our local regional planning commissions we'll reach out to the towns for information we'll generate data sets from 211 individual call ins and then we actually have teams coming in from FEMA either tonight or tomorrow who will go out door to door speaking with individuals about it and looking at the damage assessments so it's a multi-track process. Would you mind introducing yourself? I'm Eric for and I'm the director of emergency management. Thank you. Back to the residential question I mean do you have a message for people right now as far as what they can do? Again I don't want to give any information out that I'm not 100% sure of but that will be coming shortly hopefully once the and we're working on that to make sure that we simplify that so that and everyone has understanding what it covers, what it doesn't and what they can expect we're also working closely we're reaching out today our team is with the treasurer and others to see what funding is available so that we can provide relief in anticipation of some federal help if it gets signed so that people aren't waiting for that check so we're working through all of that again we're trying to deal with the initial emergency response at this point and having one foot into recovery and but we're trying to take care of the emergency first but at the same time we've got our teams working together to try and anticipate some of that but I we'll have more detail on that once it's signed. Do we have a sense I don't at this point or do we have anything at this point now we're still electing all those data points The figures in the acting are still happening later tonight 211 as I understand is still closed from 11 p.m. p.m. where should people be turning or reaching out to if they need help or is that a 911 question? Well, 211 of course first and you should anticipate that but if it's after like 8 p.m. during the evening hours late overnight hours it's probably an emergency anyhow so call 911 Sure we have just completed outreach to of the dams that are municipal and privately owned we have completed outreach and we're having a back and forth conversation so it's going to be an ongoing conversation it's the responsibility of private dam owners to monitor their dams and report out to emergency management if there are any issues so far there are none so far so What makes you I would say reduced risk so we have to be vigilant and monitoring the weather however like I said with the Army Corps of Engineers and the contractor that we worked with we completed essentially a modeling assessment that gives us predictions of downstream impacts based on the weather so one inch is the rain three inch is the rain four inch is the rain so that gives us information as data points to then provide that back to emergency management and towns downstream so that they have an understanding of what those downstream impacts would be if the weather changes but as of right now based on the forecast and the modeling it looks unlikely that there will be a spillover of Wrightsville I know earlier you said but is there a key number you have highlighted or a circle or if it does get to this point I don't know I don't know the answer to that I'm sure Eric does come to the podium please Hello everybody Eric Platt director of engineering with our dams program we we have somebody stationed up at Wrightsville and they are monitoring the level in the dam so far no water has passed over the spillway so people have a sense of the proportion of this dam the actual crest of the dam is 30 feet higher than the spillway so there is sufficient storage in the dam if the dam spillway passes water we have inundation maps, flood maps based on different scenarios that information is going to be disseminated to emergency management directors all the way down to both so we will keep them informed as to the level so there is the spillway then clubbed out of the flood dates and then there are no for Wrightsville there are no flood maps so we manage three flood control dams on the Winnowsky River as mentioned earlier Waterbury Dam is the only one of the three where there is actual gate operation to manage the flood level and right now with the Waterbury Dam we are lowering the water level to increase the amount of flood storage so with the Wrightsville Dam the spillway it is an auxiliary spillway it only passes water when the level rises to in this case 685 and the dam itself the crest of the dam is 30 feet higher than the spillway think of it as a large vessel with an opening in it that is 30 feet below the top of the crest of the dam folks understand this if the water was within about a foot of the spillway is that where it remains today? it is in that range about 2 feet below the spillway and it is dropping but it is dropping very slowly would releasing some of the water through the spillway cause immediate evacuation downstream? no I don't think just some water spilling over the modeling that we are doing is establishing the amount of flooding that will occur based on different scenarios and I don't have that information readily available to me our dam safety engineer and the engineer that is monitoring has that information and is communicating with our both the core and our contractor our engineering consultant that is familiar with the operation of that dam who is doing that for water when we had the flooding in Montpelier and standing water on main street state street and so forth then it was more of a concern than it would be today like this is a if it got to the spillway for instance and there is no flooding in Montpelier there would be a amount of water going over the spillway coming down through the stream into the Winooski so that is concerning but not as concerning as it was when it was flooded waterways or flooded streets and so forth yes the level in the Winooski river and the dog river have receded so that takes pressure off the entire system Governor you mentioned the receding what is the process where is that contingency where is that contingency well local roads are being rebuilt by the local authorities, the districts and so forth we are assisting in any way we can I might have Joe offer any other information on that but that is ongoing and we don't have all the numbers on that we are keeping track of the state roads and we are obviously going to have to include that in any of the FEMA requests that we have in terms of dollars but again I know many of the local crews are very busy in that regard in some of the cities as well thank you Governor so the agency as I said a few days ago makes contacts with all of the towns within each region and within each district we have close to 80 actual garages throughout nine districts in five regions that I mentioned the other day as of this morning I have no knowledge of a town yet requesting any specific assets or materials from the agency but our policy is to loan, lend, anything we can you may recall a year and a half ago at Christmas when shallot lost their garage to fire we gave three trucks to shallot for the winter that's an example of our relationship with communities so if we were to get a call from a town that said you know road x is broken and we can't get to the bottom of it to start fixing it but we could get to the bottom of it and start fixing it at VTRANS we would try to do that based on wherever that is in Vermont and what our crews are facing on the state highway system at that time so we work closely it's generally the process is that the town reaches out to the state emergency operations center and would say that they've exhausted their resources and capability and they need assistance from AOT and if we get that call or even if we hear it anecdotally we will provide every bit of assistance as we are able to and how is that funded I mean I know local roads are so what so that's a great question we would have to keep copious records and copious notes on any work we do on a local highway system because as the governor has said that's part of FEMA public assistance the work we do on the state highway system is funded by the Federal Highway Administration which is a completely different rubric if you will and that's already ongoing so anything we do to help towns we just document but the local communities will be reimbursed correct but if we incur expenses we are not going to nickel and dime anybody for hours of operation of a dump truck or an employee or something if we were pulling material on behalf of the town from a pit let's say in that town we would keep track of that so the town could roll that up into the FEMA documentation but our system our state roads everything I have spoken about national highway system all the Vermont route numbers U.S. route numbers and the interstates are all funded by FHWA just how many states FHC have served water teams or like what's the boots on the ground very fortunate I have Dan come up and give the list but we're very fortunate to have them here from many different states and to offer their assistance so without them and we built our SWIFT water teams over the last 10 to 12 years I remember when I was in the senate we had I think it was one SWIFT water team and that was Mike Cannon out of Colchester so we were proactive over the years and built that up and rightfully so but without the other teams we'd be challenged right now Dan? Dan Batesy on the Deputy Commissioner of Public Safety there are I'd like to follow up with you and give you the exact locations in the states that we're talking about there are six states that have contributed thus far they are in various stages of readiness at this point I know that we have returned a couple of New Hampshire teams back across the border as they were dealing with some of their own issues we have a federal team that came out of Massachusetts so we'll count them as federal but they're from Massachusetts but I'd be happy to follow up with you on the exact states that we brought them from Governor just to employ building contractors but the water the water on the ground it looks unsafe we're working with them on that but we're working with them to try and assist to get them back in safely as soon as possible the Division of Fire Safety has deployed its own Emergency Operations Center in its massing resources in particular around inspectors we're also taking a look at a number of regulatory issues that we'll have to navigate through that with the idea of smoothing the process to allow for as SWIFT the SWIFT deployment of those resources so there is an active process going on with those inspectors and what exactly are they inspecting for? so within our purview it's structural we have engineers within our USAR teams that we can deploy in that case and electrical is another big one as well I'd want to refer you to the Division of Fire Safety for specific details on that and again I'm glad to follow up with you if you like but yeah for sure further Governor obviously yesterday we had quite a few federal officials here I guess going forward are there any plans that you and I have of any other federal partners or entities coming to Vermont? I am hearing that there may be other officials coming but I not today if I may be so boldly with the best to have more green how are you feeling? well again I think Vermont has been through this before we've proven that when the chips are down that we help one another out and we're doing that right now I see we've talked a lot about during the pandemic putting down all the silos between agencies and departments and we're doing just that in this response as well we did it during Irene and as well we're relying on those private assets as well to help out so when we again when we're impacted we tend to come together and I'm seeing that throughout the state so it gives me great hope and security that will make it through this I know we will but we need to stick together and listen and be prepared and be vigilant as we said in order to do so and then with the winds coming today too are there any particular areas where you're concerned about trees coming down power lines? all the above the ground is saturated we're concerned about a few things one the saturated soil we'll see more trees come down also might see some utility poles as well and that will impact of course the power to many residents and so forth so we'll see what happens again we're seeing varying reports at first we thought there was maybe 15 miles an hour now we're hearing increased winds depending on which direction the storm takes or what path it takes so again that's why I'm very concerned that people I want to make sure that we pay attention to this that this is not over and that's why you have to plan ahead you know get everything you need to get done during the day today so it appears it might start four o'clock or so and it'd be a quick moving storm so maybe four to eight and then afterwards but we'll stay in touch we'd ask all of you as well I know you have meteorologists that are assisting and we just need to articulate that to Vermonters so that they can plan as well but for right now four o'clock into the evening hours that I'm most concerned in it's about all the above whether it's flash flooding whether it's power loss trees and utility poles and so forth this also might be a question for DCS is there an update on drinking water conditions or how soon boil water notices might be able to lift so I don't have a specific town by town it is very different depending upon certain circumstances we know that we've dealt with some challenges we have deployed assets to assist with drinking water we have also requested in our stockpiling a supply of drinking water through FEMA and we're prepared to help out we've not had a number of requests we've had a small I think two is where we are right now but we are considering that may be a challenge that we have to deal with when you say deploying assistance do you mean like state deploying resources to help fix it how does that work one of the requests that we had was a hospital so we deployed some capabilities to deliver water to the system the specific detail I don't have the specific details of exactly what we deployed but that was the idea to augment their no-drink order for the hospital does the National Guard have water trucks? they do and we've worked with them to make sure that we have those resources aligned we haven't deployed any of those I would prefer to the National Guard to tell you more specific details on that but we have worked with them to make sure that we are aligned and we know what those resources are but thus far we haven't had a need to deploy them yet what do you mean by trucks on standby are they ready to go so I'm going to ask what you mean by trucks so we have water containment sort of vessels they don't drive themselves and we have to pull them around we have not deployed any of those they're being inspected right now and they're on standby for if we need that we do not have water production capabilities that is something that the Army can do we don't have those in Vermont we can ask for those resources if we decide we need them in the state through an EMAC process from other Army units around the country that hasn't happened yet we've leaned forward to see where those are available if we do need them right now we have just pulled on a team of basically logistics so they're trucks trucking around bottled and or bagged water that FEMA has brought in so I think that's what we're doing right now FEMA has delivered I don't actually have confirmation that it was delivered but it was supposed to be delivered about noon today because we have trucks on standby to deliver them to the towns who have requested them I'm sorry I'm Colonel Tracy Corrier I'm the Director of the Joint Staff with the Vermont National Guard I just also wanted to add that we are also working with a number of civilian contractors who do this as well so we've aligned those resources again haven't had to use them yet but we're working with them to make sure that we have them in stock and ready to go if that's a need that arises any time maybe more or two more I just had a question about the state buildings but there were a number of the DFVs Supreme Court AG agency that have worked hard from what I understand the Department of Taxes, what's the latest with those and the services that they'll be providing to Vermonters and what happens with those state employees I think agriculture building has been spared but Kristen do you have the rest of those Sure so I do have a list of state buildings that have been impacted I can read but it's rather long so I'll touch base with you afterwards where some buildings were impacted more than others we're hoping that the lesser impacted buildings can be dried out and inspected and come back online within the next weeks some may take longer than that depending on how their systems have been impacted and whether those need to be replaced or whether we can dry those buildings out and much is to be seen with the weather coming in in the next couple of days but I do have a list of all of the impacted state buildings again bearing degrees of impact and we're working around the clock to try and bring those buildings back online as quickly as possible with a prioritization to the service buildings and provide services to Vermonters so the floating bridge basically just capsized it inverted and so it wasn't visible all right and is it salvageable that's being determined now this might be a question for the attorney general but have you received any reports of price gouging of essential goods I have not heard of that at this point but I would refer you to the attorney general and have you heard of any shortages of essential goods have not at this point in time thank you all