Spring is here in Missoula County, and as the mountain snow begins to melt and rainy days start to drizzle in, people may wonder what’s in the forecast for Missoula County’s flood season and how the Office of Emergency Management prepares for it.
OEM Director Adriane Beck shares lessons learned from past flood events, how her team assesses the river to know what to expect and what they do to help neighborhoods in flood-prone areas anticipate the season. The weather forecast is unpredictable and sometimes plans change as storms roll in. Adriane talks through learning how to adjust to weather patterns and adapting as emergencies arise.
Over the past two years, Adriane’s team has helped mitigate multiple emergencies, from pandemic to wildfire.She sharesher approach to staying present and how she’s learned to laugh in the midst of it all.
Thank you to Missoula's Community Media Resource for podcast recording support!
Spring is here in Missoula County, and as the mountain snow begins to melt and rainy days start to drizzle in, people may wonder what’s in the forecast for Missoula County’s flood season and how the Office of Emergency Management prepares for it.
OEM Director Adriane Beck shares lessons learned from past flood events, how her team assesses the river to know what to expect and what they do to help neighborhoods in flood-prone areas anticipate the season. The weather forecast is unpredictable and sometimes plans change as storms roll in. Adriane talks through learning how to adjust to weather patterns and adapting as emergencies arise.
Over the past two years, Adriane’s team has helped mitigate multiple emergencies, from pandemic to wildfire.She sharesher approach to staying present and how she’s learned to laugh in the midst of it all.
Thank you to Missoula's Community Media Resource for podcast recording support!
Welcome back to Tip of the Spear with your Missoula County commissioners. I'm Juanita Vero, and I'm here with Josh Slotnick and Dave Strohmaier. And today we're also joined by our Office of Emergency Management Director Adriane Beck. So we've kind of had a meager winter, but it is spring. And generally in the spring. I mean, what meager amounts of snow we do have is melting? That means flooding season is upon us. So we're here to talk about flooding.
Office of Emergency Management Director Adriane Beck:Flooding, yes. When we start to see those signs of spring, that kind of get us hopeful for the transition of seasons and things like that. It's a good opportunity to think about how much snow is up in the mountains and how quickly that's going to come off and what potential impacts that might have on our rivers and in our floodplain. And so, as you mentioned, this last winter was not too remarkable. We're sitting okay for going into this spring, but Mother Nature is always the variable. We can have flood situations where we have unremarkable snowpack, but we get a significant rainfall over multiple days that can push us into flood season. And so while the snowpack is a good indicator of what we should be preparing for, we always kind of have to keep our eye on the the other variables.
Commissioner Josh Slotnick:Thanks. Yeah. This has been one of the coldest, driest springs that I can remember, which makes me feel like we should be getting some rain and it might come all at once. And who knows? We could be in flood trouble.
Office of Emergency Management Director Adriane Beck:Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Commissioner Josh Slotnick:So, Adriane, you have joined us in the past and it was really fun when you came last time. But for folks who missed that, would you mind describing how you found yourself in this position of running our Office of Emergency Management? It's a it's a pretty intense job. How did you find yourself in this role?
Office of Emergency Management Director Adriane Beck:Pure luck, right? Um, well, how far back do you want to go?
Commissioner Josh Slotnick:Oh, go back.
Commissioner Juanita Vero:Go back. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Office of Emergency Management Director Adriane Beck:So I, you know, grew up in Helena, Montana, came to the University of Montana to go to go to college, really had an eye and a thought process of thinking I wanted to go into law enforcement. And so, I was at the University of Montana and saw this flyer in the dorm. I lived in Aber Hall. That was for a what they called the sleeper program with the Frenchtown Fire District. It was an opportunity to become trained as a firefighter and as an EMT while simultaneously living in one of their fire stations and getting money for tuition reimbursement to go to college. The schedule worked out really well as far as you covered nights and weekends to enable you to go to school during the day. And so I moved out of the dorms the next year, moved into a fire station, spent two years in their residency program. Um, spent my summers fighting wildland fire and continuing to pursue certifications and accreditations as an emergency medical technician and a structural firefighter. Upon graduating from college, had the opportunity to take a full time position with the fire department as their volunteer coordinator. The department was a combination department with paid staff and mostly volunteers at the time, and just over the years kind of progressed to different positions within the paid staff of the fire department. And after about 14 years of being in the fire service, really was looking to maybe do something different and had the opportunity to come to Missoula County as the deputy disaster and emergency services coordinator. It was a new position that had just been created.
Commissioner Juanita Vero:What even attracted you? Sorry to disaster or emergency coordination? That sounds like a nightmare.
Office of Emergency Management Director Adriane Beck:I think it was a little bit of just the unknown, right, of wanting to try something different, but also, you know, not being kind of in that response mode all the time, not, you know, having the opportunity to to have a 9 to 5 Monday to Friday type job was somewhat attractive to me. Little did I know that that wasn't what it was going to be. But and so yeah, it was able to come work for the County and under the Chris Lounsbury and he was just a great mentor and taught me all kinds of things about all hazards and all disasters, not so much just in the fire realm. And I think that's really what I enjoyed the most, was being able to come out of that kind of single lens and being able to look at things more holistically and how they impact the community outside of just kind of that routine. 911 call. Chris moved on to new and better promotions within the County, which then gave me the opportunity to step into the director role.
Commissioner Dave Strohmaier:Well, Adriane, one of the roles that you play in your your current position is helping manage or address or respond to flood emergencies and disasters. And you're no stranger to this. So for those of us who are listening and either new to the community. You're maybe you've been here for a while. Could you just maybe recap for us a little what might be some notable flood events that you've experienced or been through? And are there any lessons to be learned from those circumstances?
Office of Emergency Management Director Adriane Beck:Well, sure. I mean, as far as lessons to be learned, I think that any time we experience something that rises to the level of a disaster, we always have an opportunity to say, what happened? What did we do? Well, what will be what do we need to improve and prepare for in the future? The first big flood that we had was the second biggest flood we've ever experienced in in Missoula County. So in 2018, we had quite a bit of snowpack. We had some spring moisture and rain, and we just started to see the river continue to rise and to continue to rise. And and it was somewhat challenging to respond to that because, you know, when there's a fire we call the fire department, when there's a vehicle accident or something involving law enforcement, we know who to call for those types of things. But there's no agency that really responds to flooding. And furthermore, there's very little that you can do to hold back a wall of water.
Commissioner Juanita Vero:When you say respond to flooding, when during flooding is a responding happening.
Office of Emergency Management Director Adriane Beck:When does it become an emergency?
Commissioner Juanita Vero:Yeah. Yeah.
Office of Emergency Management Director Adriane Beck:So, typically, when when we classify something as an emergency relative to flooding, it's it's when the river is doing something that we don't want it to do by way of impacting infrastructure or properties that we that otherwise we wouldn't want water flowing over. So, the easy way to think about is that is when the river leaves its banks. And sometimes that has little consequence. It just recharges the floodplain. Other times it will take out a bridge or erode the roadway, or in worst case scenarios like we experienced in 2018. It moves houses. We we lost, I think, three mobile homes into the Clark Fork River during the 2018 flooding event. They were not occupied when they went into the water. But but they were someone's home. And that has high consequence.
Commissioner Juanita Vero:And I think I interrupted you. You were you were continuing on about kind of the the history of the flooding and the response here, what the County.
Office of Emergency Management Director Adriane Beck:So, in 2018 is when when we saw that kind of historic flooding for our community. And one of the things that I think we've seen since and this is obvious, I think, to everyone who spent any time around the river, is that they're always changing and the floodplain is always changing. The river's always changing. But what we saw in 2018 is, is the river doing things that we've not seen it do in the past. And so it became hard to predict kind of what it was going to do in the immediate future. But then also, as we've gone into flood year since 2018, the river continues to do things that it has not done in the past. There's lots of theories about what's going on with the river. The Water Quality District has has undergone some channel migration mapping. And we've worked with the Army Corps of Engineers to try to understand our levee infrastructure and making sure that's adequate. But what we're seeing is that every year we're seeing flooding at a lower and lower stage. And so those negative impacts, those negative consequences of the river leaving its bank are becoming more predominant at with less water in the river.
Commissioner Josh Slotnick:What's going on there? Why is that?
Office of Emergency Management Director Adriane Beck:In the city limits of Missoula, you have the river is is levied on both sides. And so as it's going through town, it's going at a pretty fast rate. The bed load or the the gravel and the sand and everything else is is in the river. But as it starts to slow down, as it comes out of that levee system, it all falls down. And so what we're what we think we're seeing is that the the base elevation of the river is coming up. Oh, and so the water then comes up at a shallower river gauge, height or flow.
Commissioner Juanita Vero:How do you guys measure your river and weather and predict or know what's what's coming?
Office of Emergency Management Director Adriane Beck:So we work very closely with the National Weather Service and the U.S. Geological Survey. The USGS has the river gauges that we use as predictors of where we're going to start seeing some of those negative impacts and where we're going to start seeing some of that consequence of flooding. And we've been able to calibrate, if you will, based off of certain river gauges where we know when we hit a certain river gauge height or a flow, that we know what the downstream effects are based on that gauge height. And so we've worked really closely with the National Weather Service here in Missoula and their hydrologists and their predictive forecast folks to really kind of hone that in so that when we see things starting to occur. We kind of know what to expect, and I think that that probably is the best lesson learned from the 2018 flooding is how do we get better predictive services? How do we better anticipate what those impacts are going to be Again, after 2018, kind of feeling very vulnerable an not knowing what to expect next. Not knowing how to communicate to the public what they should prepare for and what they should expect. We initiated a couple of different things. One was we worked with the Army Corps of Engineers to do a flood inundation study, which is similar to reading the gauge heights on some of our known gauges. It's different from floodplain mapping, I want to be clear about that is not a regulatory tool. It's it's a predictive tool for our office to be able to use to help better communicate with the public about what they should expect. And so we can run some what I would call supposals and say, well, if if we see the river gauge go to this height, how much water should we expect in some of these neighborhoods? And that then allows us to help the community and help the public better prepare for for that based on what we think we're going to see, but also based on what we're actually seeing.
Commissioner Dave Strohmaier:Well, speaking of predictions, and if we have time later on, you can talk about the crystal ball and tarot cards that are on the table here. But what's your best guess or your colleagues best guess as far as what we might be looking at this spring? And how are you, maybe as we speak, preparing for flood season?
Office of Emergency Management Director Adriane Beck:Yeah, that's good. You know, the National Weather Service has if you've ever tried to navigate their website, it it's it's immense and amazing the amount of information and data and detail that they have in there. But that is one of the things that we start to look at about this time of year is we start looking at those river gauges and they also have some features on there where you can kind of they are models. And you know, the common saying about models is every model is wrong, right? But it does give you a sense of what we should be, the crystal ball that we should be looking into based on the conditions that we have on the ground right now, based on the forecast that is in the future. And then as they play out, you can kind of see how those models will change. And right now, looking at the models, again, based on the river gauges that tell us the best intel for what we should expect in Missoula, we're looking at very unremarkable flooding. Now, that being said, we could end up with, you know, a Pacific storm front that just hangs over Missoula for a week and dumps a lot of rain. And that completely changes scenario. But right now, looking at snowpack, we're not expecting a huge flood season. But as I mentioned before, we are seeing what would have been normal kind of annualized flow, still having those consequences of the river, leaving its bank and having negative impacts on private property.
Commissioner Dave Strohmaier:So in this maybe somewhat unremarkable season that might be before us, or if hypothetically it was looking like it could be the real deal this year, what would your office typically be doing to kind of prepare for that?
Office of Emergency Management Director Adriane Beck:Yeah. So even though we are expecting kind of an unremarkable flood season, we're still doing our kind of due diligence for the season and working to coordinate with all of our partner agencies. So next week we're kind of kicking those efforts off in earnest. Dave You just attended our Local Emergency Planning Committee meeting where we talked a little bit about flooding. We got an update from the National Weather Service. That's something we do every spring. But next week, we'll be getting all of our agencies, all of our local government agencies together to kind of talk about their resources, make sure everybody knows who's who. And the in the Rolodex, as people change and positions change, make sure we know everybody's cell phone numbers. And then we go through our emergency operations plan to ensure that everybody understands what their role is by agency, but also what resources we have available to us in Missoula County and Missoula City. We also, at the beginning of May, traditionally have a meet and greet with the Army Corps of Engineers out of the Seattle district. They have folks that that come to Missoula to do a visual inspection and walk our levee system just ahead of ahead of flooding to make sure that there aren't any issues that need to be addressed. But this year, they're going to come and do that as well as they're going to bring some equipment that we've not yet had deployed into Missoula County before. It's an automated sandbagging machine, which sounds really cool. Right. And, you know, you see these in communities where they have just really prolific flooding. So we've not had one deployed into Missoula. I don't know that there's ever been one deployed in Montana, but they're bringing that and we'll do a bit of a dog and pony show to see how that thing works as well. They're bringing some of their Hescos, which again these are just devices that can be used for flood control in a flood fight situation.
Commissioner Juanita Vero:What's a what's a HESCO?
Office of Emergency Management Director Adriane Beck:We're going to find out.
Commissioner Dave Strohmaier:It's a device that can be used in a flood.
Commissioner Juanita Vero:Okay. Okay. What does it do?
Office of Emergency Management Director Adriane Beck:Yeah. They're used to divert water, much like a sandbag would be. But, you know, you need heavy equipment to move them around, and they typically are used to protect public infrastructure, bridges, roads, those kinds of things.
Commissioner Dave Strohmaier:Yeah. So when is this happening?
Office of Emergency Management Director Adriane Beck:May 4th. Out at Fort Missoula. Yeah. I'll send you an invite.
Commissioner Josh Slotnick:Yeah, we should go take a look. So, Adrian, we've talked a little bit in this discussion about 2018. I remember it well. The water on Tower Road almost made it to Third Street.
Office of Emergency Management Director Adriane Beck:Yes.
Commissioner Josh Slotnick:So, looking back at that year, what are some kind of lessons learned and are there things that we've explored in terms of flood mitigation to make sure those that neighborhood isn't hit so hard when there is a big flood?
Office of Emergency Management Director Adriane Beck:Yeah, you know, a 2018 was impactful for our office, obviously, and I think it highlighted some of the mitigation strategies that we could be more proactive around flooding. And so following 2018, which seems like it was just yesterday, but it it was quite a long time ago at this point, we engaged in conversations with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as well as the Army Corps of Engineers, to begin to look at, you know, how do how do we how do we address this problem? How do we even analyze what is the best mitigating strategy to do? And that work continues. It's painfully slow. Getting mitigation projects up and off the ground in a way that proves out to be cost beneficial is very challenging.
Commissioner Juanita Vero:What's an example of a project?
Office of Emergency Management Director Adriane Beck:So we in 2018, we initiated a project to buy out one of the properties that was most severely impacted and had extreme damage done to the to the property, but also to the structures that were on that property in the course of the, you know, the years that have followed, just about six months ago, we were notified that that project had been awarded for funding. Now, three flood seasons later. Right. Right.
Commissioner Josh Slotnick:Six months ago. And that was 2018.
Office of Emergency Management Director Adriane Beck:Yeah. Right. And you know, the property inhabitable after 2018. And sometimes, you know, that that period of time that it takes to get a project through kind of all the evaluation criteria to prove out that it's cost beneficial, to have a willing homeowner that wants to participate in the program can take a significant amount of time when you're really just dealing with one single property. And the problem is much bigger than that. Unfortunately, the amount of time that that application and that time to award that that took the the property owner had lost interest in and sold the property to somebody else who did not want to participate in the in the buyout because these are voluntary programs. You know, we can't go in with eminent domain and say, well, we don't think that you can live here anymore.
Commissioner Juanita Vero:And three years is a long time. Like, that's that's tough. Well, one component of approving a subdivision or a property decision, I mean, this is what we're tasked with as commissioners is making sure it's in compliance with our county floodplain regulations. So, can you talk a bit about what that means and how regulations, I don't know if people are triggered by the word regulations, but help prevent future development of neighborhoods along the river like this Orchard Home situation or the trailers that ended up in the river. Yeah.
Office of Emergency Management Director Adriane Beck:I think, you know, you're hitting on it right there. And that and to be blunt, I mean, our office doesn't really deal with the regulatory side of things, but certainly appreciates why they're there. Because when you have development that occurs either prior to those regulations coming in into place or, you know, gets approved in an area where it shouldn't, the consequences are that then we end up having to expend quite a bit of local government resources or federal resources to try to address and or then mitigate that, that hazard. And so when we think about flooding and we think about the regulatory floodplain as to why it's not a good idea to build there, the obvious is because it floods. I think what's important is that the regulations are such that it's saying it's not saying you can't build there. If you build there, you have to build to certain conditions so that you can your property, your home can withstand said hazard and in this case, flooding. So someone who builds in the floodplain will need to meet certain elevation criteria to ensure that their home is is high enough for documented or predicted. Worst case scenario flooding.
Commissioner Dave Strohmaier:Yeah, whether both in fire or flood scenarios. I've heard it sometimes said that we maybe particularly in our libertarian bent western United States and Montana, like to privatize the benefits of doing whatever you want with your private property, but then essentially socialize the cost so that then when disaster strikes, we're all kind of picking up the slack and helping mitigate the disaster, even though choices were made or lack of regulation in the past was enacted to lead us to where we are today. I mentioned fire. So flooding and flood season is going to be upon us soon, but will quickly slip by and we will just move right on into fire season? Some folks out there might be wondering, is there any correlation between or predictive capacity in looking at the flooding season to judge how's fire season going to look? Thoughts on that?
Office of Emergency Management Director Adriane Beck:Yeah, well, you know, I mean, I think that there's some obvious relationships, right. And that when we have remarkable flooding years, it's typically because we have a remarkable snowpack. And then that translates to just more moisture in the ground that helps us stave off fire season a little bit longer. But we have years where we don't have flooding, we don't have years where we don't have wildfire. We skate by every now and then as far as not having what I would consider to be, you know, disastrous wildfires within Missoula County. But but if they're not occurring in Missoula County, they're occurring in our neighboring counties. And so and we're eating the smoke. So there certainly is a correlation in that when we have bigger floods, it's normally because we have much more water available to make that happen, which then kind of puts fire season off for a little while. But I don't know that. I don't know what more to say about. No, no.
Commissioner Dave Strohmaier:That's that's fair enough.
Commissioner Josh Slotnick:Is it too early to make any predictions about fire season given we such a drought last fall and a really dry spring so far?
Office of Emergency Management Director Adriane Beck:We will have one.
Commissioner Dave Strohmaier:There will be a fire season.
Office of Emergency Management Director Adriane Beck:So, it would be it would be remarkable if we didn't have a fire season. But I think that, you know, when we look at the drought index and it's creep in into the western part of the state, we've been pretty fortunate. But that, you know, that that drought creep is is real and it's continuing and it's getting worse and worse.
Commissioner Dave Strohmaier:Well, and we've seen cases where it might it might look like a wet spring, wet early summer. And folks are thinking, well, there's not going to be much by way of fire activity, but all of that wetness. Well, you're a farmer, Josh. That moisture makes things grow and then you get dry out. Flash drought and and you get fires.
Commissioner Josh Slotnick:Yeah. I mean, just looking out the window right now, Jumbo should be greener than that right now, right?
Office of Emergency Management Director Adriane Beck:Yeah.
Commissioner Josh Slotnick:It's almost may. It should be greener than that. Right. But should be is pretty relative. It's just my limited experience for the past few decades. And in terms of geology, that's not a lot of time.
Office of Emergency Management Director Adriane Beck:Yeah, you know in my time in, in emergency management, you know, we've, we've had fire seasons that start later, we've had fire seasons that start earlier. But back to my prediction, we've always had a fire season. Some of them are not as remarkable as others, you know, and but summer in Montana. Yeah.
Commissioner Josh Slotnick:So, I get tasked with asking what is often my favorite question here? So in the recent past, what have you come across that you found was really interesting? Aside from anything to do with emergencies, I'm thinking books, magazine articles, podcasts, prestige, TV, anything. Any kind of cool idea or story that you ran into that you thought was worthy of worthy of talking about?
Office of Emergency Management Director Adriane Beck:Oh, well, you know.
Commissioner Josh Slotnick:We're in the golden age of culture.
Commissioner Dave Strohmaier:Noteworthy public meetings by the board of county commissioners.
Commissioner Josh Slotnick:Oh, my God.
Office of Emergency Management Director Adriane Beck:Yeah. You know what? What I found recently, and maybe it was just kind of the doldrums of the last two years of the pandemic, but I found a lot of fun in laughing at myself with my six-year-old.
Commissioner Josh Slotnick:Oh, that's beautiful.
Office of Emergency Management Director Adriane Beck:And and so, you know, she's not a voracious reader yet. And so when you ask me what books I'm reading, I could give you a list
Commissioner Josh Slotnick:The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Office of Emergency Management Director Adriane Beck:She's way beyond the Very Hungry Caterpillar. But she's a voracious listener. And I think that what's been fun for me is, is to laugh at myself as far as, you know, really getting into the characters and really like, you know, like coming up with funny accents and things like that. And yeah, it's something that I don't do outside my house. I can't believe I'm talking about it on a podcast.
Commissioner Josh Slotnick:But that's good stuff.
Office of Emergency Management Director Adriane Beck:But you know, it it really has been kind of recharging, right? I mean, just that that nightly routine of just being goofy.
Commissioner Juanita Vero:What are you guys reading right now?
Office of Emergency Management Director Adriane Beck:Well, she she gets to choose and she gets to choose four books every night for. Yeah.
Commissioner Juanita Vero:What time is bedtime?
Commissioner Josh Slotnick:There's like an hour of reading. That sounds really fun!
Office of Emergency Management Director Adriane Beck:Yeah, well, it's like about 45 minutes, right? And, and, uh, yeah, it's. It's kind of the wind down for the day, but she has just a ton of books.
Commissioner Juanita Vero:Okay, what's her favorite? Cause I want to. I want to go read it in my imagination of Adriane Beck voice.
Office of Emergency Management Director Adriane Beck:The, the, the one that we just checked out from the Missoula Public Library is The Bear Has Sniffles.
Commissioner Josh Slotnick:The Bear Has Sniffles.
Commissioner Dave Strohmaier:Yeah, it's COVID. COVID era.
Office of Emergency Management Director Adriane Beck:Yeah. I don't know what her. Yeah, she got into the sickness theme.
Commissioner Juanita Vero:I can't imagine why.
Office of Emergency Management Director Adriane Beck:Yeah, it was all these different characters, but yeah, no, she, she just really gets into, into the books. And so it's it's a lot of fun.
Commissioner Josh Slotnick:Did you guys ever do Junie B Jones books? You know those? Oh, my God. Yeah. Cause, like, you're the same age as my kids. Oh, my gosh. It just would make me laugh so hard reading those things. They're so funny.
Office of Emergency Management Director Adriane Beck:I'm going to have to check them out.
Commissioner Josh Slotnick:Yes. The woman who wrote those just so funny.
Commissioner Juanita Vero:What are they called again?
Commissioner Josh Slotnick:Junie B Jones. She's the main character.
Commissioner Dave Strohmaier:We read those.
Commissioner Juanita Vero:Oh, no, I never read them.
Office of Emergency Management Director Adriane Beck:What age group?
Commissioner Dave Strohmaier:Oh 57.
Commissioner Josh Slotnick:I think you could read them out loud to a six year old. I mean, you might need a word explained here or there, but not much.
Office of Emergency Management Director Adriane Beck:Yeah. Yeah. No, I was I was shocked when when we read Charlotte's Web that she was really grasping everything. And I'm in these voices and, you know, having all that. And I look back and we're at the end, of course, it's very sad. And I look back and she's just got tears streaming down her face. And I thought, Oh, I probably should have anticipated this.
Commissioner Josh Slotnick:That's a great story. He's an incredible writer.
Office of Emergency Management Director Adriane Beck:Yeah.
Commissioner Josh Slotnick:Wrote essays for grownups, too. Also is the same White as E.B. White of Strunk and White, the style guide. Just an incredibly talented person in letters. So I also had one of my favorite farming quotes.
Commissioner Juanita Vero:From E.B. White? Yeah. Yeah.
Commissioner Dave Strohmaier:Which is?
Commissioner Juanita Vero:Which is. Yeah.
Commissioner Josh Slotnick:Farming is 10% agriculture and 90% fixing what's got busted.
Commissioner Dave Strohmaier:Ah, as well you know, this past couple of days.
Commissioner Juanita Vero:We're just talking about this. Yes.
Commissioner Josh Slotnick:E.B. White is quite an amazing human.
Office of Emergency Management Director Adriane Beck:That's good. That's good.
Commissioner Dave Strohmaier:Thanks, Adriane.
Commissioner Josh Slotnick:Yeah, thanks, a ton.
Office of Emergency Management Director Adriane Beck:Yeah, you bet.
Commissioner Juanita Vero:Thanks so much.
Commissioner Josh Slotnick:Yeah, our community is in really good hands with you.
Office of Emergency Management Director Adriane Beck:Oh, well, thank you so much for saying that. But I have a fantastic team and this is a remarkable community that really rallies, whether it's different sectors of government or just the community at large. They they get stuff done.
Commissioner Juanita Vero:Yeah, that's well said.
Commissioner Josh Slotnick:Thanks, everybody, for tuning in.