Jack Womack
Jack Womack
Jack Womackis an American author of fiction and speculative fiction...
commitment enormous news
There's been an enormous commitment of resources. You're right, it's a lot of money. But (cover the news is) what we do.
second since wave
These people, they've been around there since Saturday, around the clock, ... We're going to look at a second wave (of personnel).
united united-states
Clearly, this is the most challenging story we've ever had to manage, at least in the United States.
government learned lessons people response
People want to see what lessons the government learned and the response that is going to be made,
absolutely compares hard military operation people supply terms
This compares to absolutely nothing that we've ever done before, and we've been here 20 years, ... It's so enormous, so devastating. It's hard enough to tell that story. But it's like a military operation in terms of our people and our supply lines.
careful respectful
We try to look and be very respectful and careful about that.
military operate organize supply
To operate in this environment, we've had to organize a military supply line.
chess everybody hard moving pieces track
We're moving chess pieces all over the place, ... We're moving them so fast, it's hard to keep track of where everybody is.
car using
We had been using car batteries. But now most of them are under water.