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Hey , my name is Jake Edwards . I'm a

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liaison officer with the Army Corps of

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Engineers , Jacksonville District .

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Today , we're here in Cedar Key , uh

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less than 24 hours after the landfall

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of hurricane Helen , you know , really

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beautiful town any other day . But

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right now we're dealing with a lot of

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destruction , a lot of wind damage , uh

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storm surge damage , things like that .

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And this really small community has a

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lot of damage . Well , it's really

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important . What we do is because we're

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trying to make sure that people who

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need the resources who need help and

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need assistance , have those good

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conduits to give that information to

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where it needs to be , to make

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actionable decisions . You know , one

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of the reasons why I'm out here today

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is we're reaching out to local leaders ,

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county level emergency managers ,

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things like that . We're just trying to

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see what needs are where they can kind

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of come together with four missions ,

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the mission of the United Engineers and

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see how we can make that work . I'm

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very fortunate enough to be able to be

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in this role . I a Floridian myself ,

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native , born and bred Floridian and

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I'm just happy to be given back to my

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community to talk to people and see

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what they need and see how I can

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communicate that up just to try to get

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people help as soon as we can .