Lester Holt
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109 recordings
5 series
first heard Jun 2021
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And to inverse that question, is it shocking that something like that wasn't in place?
Were there missed opportunities?
So I think, Morgan, what's interesting here is he's very clear.
It's like, this isn't going to save everybody.
So don't think that this was going to be the miracle cure to this.
Sure.
But at the same time, it could have apparently saved lives at some level.
Yeah, I think a lot of people have, in our conversations, they're talking about a flood culture.
And that might have affected the response.
And by flood culture, we're talking about the warnings.
Many people say, well, we used to get them all the time.
Yeah, we get heavy rains here.
We get the flooding.
And it's almost as if it was an excuse for not acting.
that people had fallen to a complacency, and so we heard a little bit about that.
I'm sure you've seen in other disasters you cover that sometimes there is kind of a sense of, you know, this is nothing new, it's nothing to worry about, and you kind of talk yourself down away from reacting in a more demonstrative way.
It's a variation on the it can't happen to me.
Right.
That I think we've all heard and we've unfortunately been a part of it.
That sense of, yeah, it can happen, but it won't happen to me.
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