Larry Morgan:  I think it's outstanding that you know our company, through our public relations and our other other outreach areas has partnered with FEMA to bring FEMA into our stores give them the opportunity to talk to our customers.  Here in Newport News we're kind of unique, we live on a peninsula, so were surrounded with water, and talking about the mitigation assistance with FEMA is real important for our customers 

Richard Waalkes:  Right now at Home Depot, we're running a flood insurance, and flood mitigation outreach program.  We're talking with people about their flood insurance needs and mitigation flood mitigation methods for their home 

Matthew Wall:  Mitigation is essentially any action that a person can take in advance of an event occurring to protect themselves or their property from damage from a hazard and overall health preservation.

Tracy Hanger:  Having flood insurance is a way to help people recover from a storm they also need to have content insurance because flood insurance does not the cover property contents so it's important for them to be insured properly based on what they could potentially lose if they were to be flooded.

Larry Morgan:  We could have a storm here at any time.  You know we experienced Hurricane Isabell in '84, I'm sorry in '04 and then right after that we had Tropical Storm Eduardo came through both of those had huge tidal surges with them and most recently we had a Nor'Easter which flooded the community of Seaford and Poquouson which is right on our borders. 

Richard Waalkes:  People will be attuned especially after the event that we had here where we had flooding on a wide range of scales. They're ready to listen after a flooding event, so this is the kind of time we need to come out and get our message out.