Calhoun County

That's Chris.

No, his name is Chris Brisket from Calhoun, Texas.

His last name is Brisket.

Yo, in college, I saw you eat some wild shit, but that's on another level.

Um, this last month we put up, uh, three static billboards in Bastrop County, one static in, um, Meaning those are the ones that stay all the time.

One in Victoria County and one in Calhoun County.

And we have six digital billboards running two ads on them in Victoria County.

Wow.

We also have seen some studies looking at how the, uh, sea level rise and other aspects of changes that are happening in the climate are i- impacting areas along the coast in particular of the US.

And, um, one, one, uh, study found that by 2050, about 20% of the inf- flood risk to critical infrastructure, including healthcare infrastructure, is gonna increase by 20% in Calhoun County, Texas, which is right along the coast.

So we include sort of details like that so that if there-- if you're working in a certain part of the state, for example, you could maybe go kind of search through the, the PDF to try and see if there are, um, specific statistics that are helping, would, would help you kind of clarify, you know, what have we seen in the past in terms of the impacts of, of these disasters and help understand, you know, specifically where, where should those resource allocations go.

In terms of impacts themselves, what we see is that, you know, the biggest one, the one that, that healthcare facilities are particularly trying to avoid is shutting down the facility, and that goes to the comment I made before about 20% layoffs.

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Formosa Plastics Corporation and Formosa Utility Venture operate the Point Comfort complex in Calhoun County.

Now, in 2019, these companies applied to renew their state wastewater permit.

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality's draft permit would authorize multiple discharges, including an average flow of up to 9.7 million gallons through one outfall and up to six million gallons through another per day.