The rising, moving water impact is something we can't mitigate.

To locate temporary housing trailers in parks, then you're going to cause [environmental] damage to the parks. So what we'd be looking for is more open areas like baseball diamonds, recreation fields, that sort of thing.

The state is basically indicating we're probably not going to be able to meet that threshold to ask them to ask the president for a disaster declaration to trigger the individual assistance programs.

If you haven't prepared in the past because you didn't feel it happened often enough or threatened the area often enough, you really need to rethink that strategy.