The larger point is this: We`ve invested over half a billion dollars in New York since this department was stood up. We`ve given New York more money, by more than double, than any other city in the country.
So, all during the `90s and, you know, for the first half of this decade, we had opportunities to get evacuation plans in place, better communications in place.
So that`s why I said, if you look at the average, you would see the money New York got this year was in line with the average across the prior three years and substantially more, by a country mile, than the money given to any other city.
Second, there are two problems with respect to mobile homes in particular. One is we obviously don`t want to put them in a flood plain, because if there`s another flood, you`re going to lose the mobile home.
The larger point is this: We`ve invested over half a billion dollars in New York since this department was stood up. We`ve given New York more money, by more than double, than any other city in the country.
