Conversation w/ Lindsay "Rubia" Garcia, Louisiana Congressional candidate

you know obviously you know living in louisiana you're going to hear a lot about you know you know flood insurance you hear a lot about fortified roofs you know and and you hear politicians on on all sides of the aisle like talk about we need this we need this we need this of course as you mentioned like groceries and fuel prices you know uh these are things that as we know are non-partisan at all but why can't we you know both locally and nationally you know just kind of see these as logistical issues that we got to sort out

I found that to be rather interesting, especially because I was rather young.

I was fresh out of high school when Katrina hit.

And I remember the days that it took to get water to the Superdome.

And I found that to be curious because even at 19 years old, I knew when hurricane season was and I knew that it came around every single year.

So it's not a matter of if we are going to be hit by storms.

It's just a matter of when.

And it seems that we have gone into favoring just shifting the cost until after the storm instead of taking more preventative measures.

So we're not.

we're not addressing the drainage.

We're not building resistant infrastructure.

We're not reshoring our levees.

We're not pumping billions of dollars into the coastal restoration that would act as a barrier or even into the pumps and the like, or even going into and reassessing the floodplains and what these look like as these projects bring it personal.

There's a creek that separates myself and a new subdivision where I live.

On the other side of that creek, they built a subdivision, but they built it up 15 feet.

My question is, what happens when the water starts to come down and it's only going to be afforded to run off on one side? What damage does that to the floodplain? What changes does that bring to the floodplain and things? So we need money to go into...

reassessing and consistently reassessing what do these floodplains look like especially in a state where we are oceans are rising and we are subsiding at the same time so it's not a matter of if but when and what does that look like in the future and i'm of the point and of the mind that we should be looking towards even though we were really lucky this summer We didn't have any storms with El Nino in the Pacific and things.

It took all the way until just this past week with Isaias to come through and we dodged a bullet right there.

But it's only a matter of time.

And I'm for strengthening NOAA and strengthening FEMA and looking towards the storms of the future because we know that these storms are going to increase with intensity.

and frequency at some point.

And

that's what I think Isaias showed us.

It went from a tropical storm to a category three in almost 24 hours.

What do our mitigation measures look like? And I think that we should be preparing for that actively, proactively on what that looks like, sending in vessels that have the birthing, that have the medical supplies, that have the food supplies in order to pull up on these coastal communities in order to provide these.

you know obviously you know living in louisiana you're going to hear a lot about you know you know flood insurance you hear a lot about fortified roofs you know and and you hear politicians on on all sides of the aisle like talk about we need this we need this we need this of course as you mentioned like groceries and fuel prices you know uh these are things that as we know are non-partisan at all but why can't we you know both locally and nationally you know just kind of see these as logistical issues that we got to sort out

I found that to be rather interesting, especially because I was rather young.

I was fresh out of high school when Katrina hit.

And I remember the days that it took to get water to the Superdome.

And I found that to be curious because even at 19 years old, I knew when hurricane season was and I knew that it came around every single year.

So it's not a matter of if we are going to be hit by storms.

It's just a matter of when.

And it seems that we have gone into favoring just shifting the cost until after the storm instead of taking more preventative measures.

So we're not.

we're not addressing the drainage.

We're not building resistant infrastructure.

We're not reshoring our levees.

We're not pumping billions of dollars into the coastal restoration that would act as a barrier or even into the pumps and the like, or even going into and reassessing the floodplains and what these look like as these projects bring it personal.

There's a creek that separates myself and a new subdivision where I live.

On the other side of that creek, they built a subdivision, but they built it up 15 feet.

My question is, what happens when the water starts to come down and it's only going to be afforded to run off on one side? What damage does that to the floodplain? What changes does that bring to the floodplain and things? So we need money to go into...

reassessing and consistently reassessing what do these floodplains look like especially in a state where we are oceans are rising and we are subsiding at the same time so it's not a matter of if but when and what does that look like in the future and i'm of the point and of the mind that we should be looking towards even though we were really lucky this summer We didn't have any storms with El Nino in the Pacific and things.

It took all the way until just this past week with Isaias to come through and we dodged a bullet right there.

But it's only a matter of time.

And I'm for strengthening NOAA and strengthening FEMA and looking towards the storms of the future because we know that these storms are going to increase with intensity.

and frequency at some point.

And

that's what I think Isaias showed us.

It went from a tropical storm to a category three in almost 24 hours.

What do our mitigation measures look like? And I think that we should be preparing for that actively, proactively on what that looks like, sending in vessels that have the birthing, that have the medical supplies, that have the food supplies in order to pull up on these coastal communities in order to provide these.