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Tobin Freid

Oct 1, 2026

40:36
perfect and so what do you see are the main environmental issues that your county is dealing with both from the residential urban built environment and the natural environment
40:48
yeah the biggest issues we're seeing related to climate change are extreme heat extreme precipitation droughts and wildfires we've had all of those things in the last six months at the same time somehow which i think is getting to be a common story i know coming down here to tampa you guys just had huge hurricanes and now you're in a drought uh so it's unfortunately something i think a lot of us are dealing with we did have tropical storm chantal come through in the fall or it was actually last july and it actually um you know had flooding pretty severe flooding so so that's something where it's just a lot of rain really short period of time comes in we're also seeing more wind events which are kind of maybe hurricanes yes but not hurricanes just regular summer storms that involve a huge you know really high gusts of wind that knock down trees and power lines and can cause a lot of problems but i would say extreme heat is definitely the issue that we're dealing with regularly every year for a long period of time.
41:56
It affects the most people.
41:58
So that's definitely
42:25
So how is the county combating and tackling these issues or responding?
42:30
Yeah, so thankfully, it's not all up to the sustainability office.
42:34
Of course, we have emergency management department.
42:38
We have stormwater and erosion control department that we work closely with.

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