Thirty-five people swam out of their emergency operations centre with life jackets on. We haven't heard from them.

There is an emergency operations plan [for the town]. We update it when we need to.

We always coordinate our efforts with FEMA and the state EOC, (Emergency Operations Command),

We always coordinate our efforts with FEMA and the state EOC, (Emergency Operations Command).

I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.

They put me in charge for a year while they looked for someone else. Thirty-five years later, they were still looking.