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Get Hurricane Ready: How To Trim Trees And Landscaping For Storm Season · Inside West Palm Beach

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Welcome to the City Center podcast from West Palm Beach,
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Florida.
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I'm Jerry Marcelo.
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Experts agree that the best way to minimize the impact of tropical storms and hurricanes is to be prepared.
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That means having a plan,
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gathering supplies and preparing your home for whatever the storm will bring.
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But while we focus on our homes,
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we often overlook our lawns and landscaping leaves,
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branches and other vegetation can become your number one headache during and after a storm breaking windows,
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clogging storm drains and generally wreaking havoc.
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The city wants to help its residents get ahead of this occurring problem with a program that gets your lawn in shape long before the first storm clouds threaten.
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Joining me today to talk about it is Calvin Williams of the city's public works department and Greg Mihalko,
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an isa certified arborist with the city of West Palm Beach.
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Gentlemen,
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welcome.
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Thank you.
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Welcome,
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Calvin.
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Let's start with the basics.
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Tell us about the amnesty days program.
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What does it do?
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When is it happening?
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Uh First of all,
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Jerry,
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I just wanna appreciate the opportunity to share this vital information with the residents here at the city of West Palm Beach regarding Amnesty week.
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Embassy Week is May 6th to May 17th.
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This is uh the time where the residents can pre prepare for the upcoming hurricane season.
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The city is offering residents the chance to dispose of any unlimited amount of vegetation during amnesty week.
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Residents can cut their vegetation and place a curbside in front of their property for our sanitation team to uh collect it on their scheduled service day at no additional cost.
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That is very important to note that only tree branches not exceeding 4 ft in length and stumps no larger than 12 inches in diameter will be accepted.
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All right.
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Well,
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you know,
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you mentioned how important it is to gather vegetation before hurricane season arrives,
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Greg.
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Why is that important?
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Well,
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um I would like to start off with saying that even though uh we allow the additional uh trimming of trees and everything for the amnesty and the unlimited amount to put out that um,
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it is important to trim any dead dying or disease branches off a tree,
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but not to over prune the tree just because we have an amnesty day.
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Doesn't mean that you want to trim your trees so heavily that you actually harm the trees and you're actually causing more,
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um,
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more of a problem and more of a hazard down the road for your trees than if they were properly pruned.
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So,
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keep that in mind when you're thinking about the amnesty and putting out the branch and,
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and everything.
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Don't over prune anything,
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don't over prune anything.
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But why do we need to prune at all?
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In some cases if a tree has been properly pruned,
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uh in the past year,
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you may not need to prune your tree at all,
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but you do need to prune and look at if not prune,
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but at least have somebody um,
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certified,
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look at any dead branches,
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any dying branches,
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um,
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any issues that the tree may have down the road that may cause a problem.
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Those are the things you want to address,
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not just arbitrarily pruning,
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just for the sake of pruning because it's hurricane season is not always the best thing to do.
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Absolutely.
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And we'll be talking more about the precise way of properly pruning trees and shrubs and all that.
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But I guess,
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uh,
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you know,
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Calvin,
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the,
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the idea is to sort of trim back your landscape and your,
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your,
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your lawn uh prior to the storm.
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So when a storm does come,
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we don't have a lot of material flying through the air.
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Would that be correct?
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That is absolutely correct.
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Uh We just want to look out for the safety of the,
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your,
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yourself and your property and your neighbors as well.
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Uh Once a name hurricane is named,
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uh,
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we ask,
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please do not cut and put place curbside for pickup.
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Ok.
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That's important.
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You don't want to be doing this as a storm is approaching.
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That's gonna be a zero.
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That's,
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that's not what we want to do.
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We want people to get ahead of time.
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That's why the amnesty week does exist.
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That's absolutely correct.
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And the dates are May 6th through May 17th,
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May 6th through 17.
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We'll be saying that again.
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That'll be a period of time when residents,
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people in the city of West Palm Beach.
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Right.
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Not just anywhere.
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That is correct.
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The city of West Palm Beach residents and,
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and also I just like to touch on this as well.
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Amnesty week is just for vegetation,
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only bulk items will not be accepted.
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Uh,
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commercial accounts,
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neither or paid contractors are not eligible for this offer.
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Ok.
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Let's let's define that just so everybody's on the same page.
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Residents,
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homeowners,
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people who have homes in,
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in city of West Palm Beach,
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you're ok.
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No big deal.
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But if you are say a commercial landscaper,
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that would not be ok to leave it on the side of the street.
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That is correct.
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Ok.
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Now we know that you said earlier that the,
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the size of like a branch that you should be leaving on the side of the street,
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what about four inches,
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4 4 ft 4 ft in length,
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4 ft in length and you can leave out the side of the street.
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Obviously,
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branches are a big deal branches break in a hurricane.
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There are flying projectiles traveling in in excess of 50 to 100 miles an hour that could do a lot of damage.
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But it's important when you do trim your tree that you do it in the right way.
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Greg,
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tell us a little bit about how to know when,
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what,
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how much to cut off.
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Well,
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OK.
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That is,
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that is the tricky question and that's where a certified arborist um comes into play.
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So in order to trim your trees properly,
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they have to be trimmed at a,
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a certain location,
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which is called the branch bark ridge.
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You wanna trim at the branch bark ridge,
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not cutting through the branch bark ridge,
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but at the branch bark ridge to remove any branch properly.
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What this does is it allows the tree to form a wall inside right around that cut area,
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right where the branch is attached and it forms what's called cod,
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that's compartmentalization of disease in trees.
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So when you prune a branch off,
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you're now opening a wound in that tree for disease and rot and insects to infect that tree properly pruned.
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This will form a wall inside the tree called the coated that will um stop that rot and disease from going further into the tree.
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It will stop it at that point.
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Also on the outside of the tree,
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people notice that it starts to what they call heel over and you'll see at the cut uh these um this rim forming around the cut,
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well,
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that's called wound wood and that forms over the cut when it's properly pruned,
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again,
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sealing that uh compartmentalization.
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See,
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that's part of the process of sealing that wound off.
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So it doesn't infect the rest of the trees.
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If you're just reducing a branch,
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you have to take it back to what,
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what's called the terminal bud.
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Now,
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that allows for the branch to regenerate at that point properly with a strong branch coming out.
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So it's attached properly and it's not going to be a weak joint.
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So,
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would you,
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would you suggest that,
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that people uh because we're talking about a lot of terminology and you know,
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and,
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and locations that are very important to the health of the tree.
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Are you suggesting that we should,
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so people should reach out to an arborist to help them with this or is there something that they can read online?
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There are,
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there is a lot of information on the isa website,
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the International Society of our bro culture on their website.
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Um They're the ones uh which is um where I'm certified through and that is the certifications that we hold as a certified arborist is recognized throughout the world.
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It's a,
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is a uh international certification.
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Um So there's um there's branches all over the world and we have this,
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the Florida chapter which um has a listing of certified arborist.
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You can check the website,
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find a certified arborist through them.
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Uh You can read up on the information,
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but uh it is very important to be trimming at the proper place because if,
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if you don't,
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you will get weak branching,
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you'll get a lot of,
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a lot of things happening to the tree that should not be happening,
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that will make that tree weaker down the road.
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Yeah.
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So it's very important that we do trim,
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but you need to trim with knowledge and know exactly where the cut should go again.
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Turning to a certified Arris yourself would be something that would be very helpful.
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Uh,
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but failing that or if you don't have access to someone who can,
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who has a knowledge to do that online,
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there's a lot of good information that can be had as well.
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There is definitely information online through,
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like I said,
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through the isa uh,
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through the,
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uh,
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I I website,
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um,
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research has been done and there's,
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uh,
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information through I,
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I,
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uh,
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the Mounts Building has,
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um,
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uh,
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the,
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um,
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an arborist out there that can,
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that can help.
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So there's a lot of resources that you can,
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um,
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look for and find that will help you learn how to trim a tree properly or at least get the knowledge that if somebody does come out and offer you a really cheap price,
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look out for that because they're going,
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their chances are they're gonna hat rack the tree and leave the,
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leave the debris for you to clean up.
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Um,
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got to be really careful with that and you'll have problems down the road and then it will cost you more money to have the tree trim properly to try and alleviate some of the damage that was done.
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Now,
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that's an important pro tip.
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Don't go to the guy who just happened to be wandering the streets one and want to cut down your tree for 10 bucks or something.
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You got to get someone who knows what they're doing to properly trim it so that it stays healthy has the best opportunity to uh avoid infection and,
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and issues later down the road and frankly be eat stronger when a storm does come.
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Correct.
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Um Long branches and,
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and being very tall or being a,
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a large canopy tree is not necessarily a problem.
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Branches tend into when the wind blows.
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If it's pruned properly and thinned out correctly,
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the wind will blow through it.
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And as the branches,
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uh as branches uh wave in the wind,
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they're gonna beat up against each other and buffer each other.
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And that helps keep the branches from breaking.
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So you don't want to take too much off.
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Otherwise you're gonna have branches just waving around in a breeze with no buffering to help them stop from breaking.
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So they rely on each other to uh stop the breakage.
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Those are great tips.
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Now,
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what else can you offer us?
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Well,
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as we talked about hat racking before,
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um again,
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I want to stress that hat racking is probably one of the worst things you can do to your tree,
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it causes the tree to stress out and when the tree gets stressed out,
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it starts to shoot out uh leaves and branches and all the wrong locations,
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the branching will be improperly attached,
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making for weak branching down the road in the future.
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Um So that those are the branches that are gonna fall off during a storm.
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Those are the branches that are gonna be unsafe to be standing under.
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Those are the branches that you don't want to have on your tree.
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Um It also um it all hat racking can also uh cause the tree to get sunburned and it's not like a sunburn like you and I would get,
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but it's a sunburn beneath the bark tissue and it,
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that could lead to canker,
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which can lead to bark splitting and that leads to dead and dying branches,
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which when a tree goes into stress,
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it sends out a signal and that signal attracts all kinds of insects and disease and rot.
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Like I said before,
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hat racking is a death sentence to the tree.
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It's pretty much dead.
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It just doesn't know it,
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it may take 5,
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10 years for it to die,
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but it is going to die.
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And the other thing uh I talked about was improper uh proper pruning of your tree.
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One,
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another thing that uh to be careful of is not to,
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it's called lion's tail of your branching.
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That's when you remove all your small branches,
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everything on that limb up to the end of the limb,
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cleaning out the whole inside of the tree.
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Well,
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and that branch looks like a lion's tail is just all naked out to the end and looks like a bushy lion's tail that transfers all the weight from spread out in that branch to the tip of that branch,
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thereby making that branch weak.
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Even if it is strongly attached,
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it can break in the middle,
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it can break anywhere along the,
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along the way.
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And when that happens,
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it's gonna come down,
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it's gonna break.
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But then we have nowhere to trim it back to because now there's nothing that's coming out.
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That's why we leave branching in the middle.
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So if a branch does break,
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we have somewhere to trim it back to keep that branching,
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keep that tree healthy.
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You see a lot of neighborhoods which have large,
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very heavily leaved trees like oak trees and all that are those more in danger during a storm than say,
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a palm tree.
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No.
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Uh not necessarily if they're,
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if they're pruned correctly.
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No.
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Um That's,
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that's again,
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I keep stressing pruning correctly because when you say a lot of leafy,
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large canopy trees,
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sometimes those trees have been hat racked and then they branch out with a lot of leaves and um they become very leafy,
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very dense and that is like the wind hitting a wall and winds not gonna blow through there like a large tree that may have a lot of leaves on it,
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but have the area for it to blow through and allow the wind to blow through.
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So the tree when it's hat racked is now in stress and it's taking the reserve foods that it has in the roots and bringing it up to produce more leaves so that it could produce more food to put uh put the reserves back in the roots and try and bring its health back up.
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So it's,
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it stresses the tree,
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let's define it a little bit.
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You use the term hat rack.
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We've heard that a lot.
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What exactly does that mean?
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Um hat racking is the indiscriminate uh cutting of branches or into stubs or removing majority or all of the uh leaf structure.
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Um A lot which people think no,
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now that mine make sure he's safe.
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I don't have any ranches on there,
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but you end up with a little stick with something that looks like a hat hat rack.
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OK.
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So some people call it topping um or rounding off,
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but it,
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you know,
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hat racks the same.
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Unfortunately,
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you do see instances of that.
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A lot of places here in South Florida,
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that's something we should be avoiding.
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Uh that,
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that used to be the way people trimmed 3540 years ago.
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Not anymore.
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You know,
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we called it the five year pruning back then.
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Uh We,
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we didn't know any better.
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And then research came up.
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Um The Florida Urban Forestry Council started doing research,
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then uh they started doing research at I I uh and then all over and ISA came involved,
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got involved and uh did more research.
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So over the years,
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they found all these things that happened to the tree that stresses the tree out that will actually destroy the tree eventually.
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If you ha rack a tree,
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it is pretty much giving it a death penalty.
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It may take 10 years.
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The tree is pretty much dead and doesn't know it.
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Um But you know about 8384 is when I discovered the isa to urban forestry and decided uh and learned about the,
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there was an upcoming the isa the certification.
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They were uh kind of pushing it in Florida and really bringing it to our attention and that's when I got certified.
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So,
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so we can start properly pruning in West Palm Beach and doing it correctly.
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Calvin.
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We now know that we have a certain amount of days for,
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for residents to uh basically pile on and get rid of a lot of material that needs to be moved before hurricane season.
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Um Do they need to be bagging everything?
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Can they just pile it?
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What's what's the correct way of properly disposing of the material and placing it so that you guys can pick it up?
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Well,
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first of all,
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as far as bagging the leaves,
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that is great.
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Uh that they would do that.
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So therefore the items would not clog up our drains and that's very important is that.
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So therefore,
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um,
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the storm waters co flooding in your neighborhoods,
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um,
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you know,
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less stress.
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Oh,
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yeah.
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So what happens is if you have a lot of loose material on the street leaves grass,
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whatever that just washes right down into the storm drains and,
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and develop more problems.
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So one thing we do ask the residents to uh place uh the vegetation pile in front of the house,
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uh for safety reasons,
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um for safe collection from our drivers,
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we asked them not to place it near cars underneath trees,
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underneath wires.
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Um So therefore we won't have no incidents or accidents while we're moving the debris.
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Ok.
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So,
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and,
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and this will be,
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and,
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and this is important because you touched on this earlier.
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Now is the time to do this or during amnesty days,
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this is the time to be preparing and getting the stuff together because within the last 48 hours before a storm,
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you guys aren't going to be doing that.
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Absolutely.
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Once the winds reach 35 MPH,
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sanitation vehicles are all off the road.
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Ok.
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So that's really important as we've often stretched,
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stressed in our hurricane messaging to citizens being prepared is the key to survival.
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Get ahead of the storm,
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don't wait till it's here to get gas and to get food because that's too late.
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Absolutely.
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That's,
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that's,
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that makes a lot of sense.
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So,
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we've talked about bagging materials.
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We've talked about making sure that that loose materials isn't washed down into the storm drains.
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Uh,
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we've talked about,
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uh,
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properly cutting branches into length.
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Now,
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the one thing that we do want to be talking about again is that you're doing a lot of work on your lawn and trying to get it to a point where it stays healthy,
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but it is capable of surviving the stronger winds that we will see during a,
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during an actual blow.
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Um,
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we have obviously lots of people have beautiful hedges and some,
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some people are very tall hedges and stuff.
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What is there anything we can do with that or they're just gonna get beat up?
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Unfortunately,
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there's not a whole lot you can do with that if you have a very tall fighter hedge.
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Um,
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from experience,
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if you try to bring it down low,
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you're never gonna get it back up to where you had it and it's never really gonna survive that.
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Well,
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um,
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so the best you can hope for is that you,
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when you just trim it up,
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normally,
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the way you would normally do,
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just hope that you,
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it can be salvaged.
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Uh There really isn't a,
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uh,
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set formula on what to do for something like that.
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Is there a type of tree which is best suited for strong winds or is there ones that we might have in our yard,
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a mango tree perhaps that we really do need to worry about.
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Um,
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I wouldn't say no,
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not really.
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I mean,
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there,
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there's,
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um,
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there are trees that do stand up to storms a little bit better than others,
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but a good healthy tree is your best bet.
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You know.
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Uh,
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you know,
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people have trees in their yards and they don't fertilize them,
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they don't take care of them,
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they don't trim,
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they don't have them trim properly.
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And,
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you know,
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if they have a weaker root system,
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uh sometimes it's not the,
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it's not the tree and how it's pruned.
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It's the,
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the root system.
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If the root system is weak because of damage or um lack of uh fertilization or lack of food or whatever the case may be,
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uh It could tend to blow over anyway.
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Uh weak soil.
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Um If the soil is very uh loose and sandy and we get a torrential rain,
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it's,
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it's not always the winds that actually push a tree over when you get the winds in combination with heavy rains and the soil becomes so damp that the roots can't hold on anymore because there's more water in the soil than there is soil.
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Your tree could come over because of that.
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You know,
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that could happen to a hedge,
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to a tree to just about anything.
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So the rains and the moisture really are um more of a detriment to uh to us during a storm than,
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than even the winds.
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I've,
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I've seen every hurricane and tropical storm and everything since 7,
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1979.
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And I think the worst damage I've,
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I've seen was during a tropical storm.
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Even some of the worst hurricanes we have,
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we didn't get as much damage as a tropical storm because the rains that we had and we had some trees come over,
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we had some very large,
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uh fights and Banyan trees in Dr Park.
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Dreer Park come over and fortunately we were able to stand them and they're still doing fine.
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You know,
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and that,
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that brings up a good point.
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You know,
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a lot of people go,
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oh,
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well,
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if it's not a major hurricane,
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if it's not a category four,
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category I fine.
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No big deal.
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What you're saying is that the sort of a hidden danger is in the sheer amount of water that might come down and saturate the ground and weaken the root system of the trees.
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Correct.
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Yes,
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that's,
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that's new.
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That's important.
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Um You know,
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so we,
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what we've covered a lot of different items here as far as how uh we can take advantage of this program.
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Um What other things,
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Calvin do?
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We need to tell folks about being prepared or getting or taking the best advantage of the amnesty weeks that are coming up?
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Just uh just want to let everybody know and residents here at the city of West Palm Beach,
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please take advantage of this opportunity.
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Um Anytime after amnesty week,
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um there is a charge for large piles that exceed uh four by four by 18.
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So I it's a great opportunity during Amnesty week,
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which is May 6th to May 17th.
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If you need more information,
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you can reach us at our website W pb.org/public works or you can email us at public works at W pb.org or contact,
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contact us at 561822,
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2075.
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I could not say it better myself,
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Callan.
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Thank you,
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Greg.
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We covered a lot of ground about trees and you have been here since the late seventies.
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You've seen it all.
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What one bit of advice would you want to give to residents of West Palm Beach in preparation of getting their lawns and landscaping ready for possible tropical storm?
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Well,
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as far as getting lawns and landscaping,
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just do your normal maintenance.
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Um,
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you don't need to over trim anything or over prune anything because you,
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well,
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for one,
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it'll just overburden the sanitation department with needless uh,
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debris that uh doesn't really be,
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need to be picked up and two,
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it'll take longer for your,
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uh,
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hedges and shrubs and everything to recuperate.
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Um,
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once everything is done because the landscaping itself,
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normally there's not a whole lot of damage to that.
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It's usually things blowing around.
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Um,
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people leaving things laying on their lawn,
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they forget to bring their chairs in,
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they forget to bring in a small pot,
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they forget to bring in something like that.
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I,
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I don't think there's probably more damage than this,
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uh,
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with that than there is even from tree branches coming down.
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Yes.
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Have I seen that?
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Yes,
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I've seen tree branches come down.
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I've seen trees come over.
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Um,
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I've seen trees,
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you know.
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Yes,
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up against the house.
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Uh,
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which I,
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I hate to say,
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I hate to see it but those things do happen once in a while.
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But in overall,
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uh like I said,
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I've been here since 74 my first hurricane was in 79 and the amount of times that that has actually happened has been very,
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very minimal and,
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and I feel that West Palm has been blessed with um the way the storms have come into us and everything and I think we just have a and,
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and I've got to say it because I am really proud of this city.
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We have a very,
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very strong um recovery system in place for recuperating after a storm and cleaning the streets and getting our major roads open for police and fire and emergency vehicles and things like that.
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And I am very proud of what we do.
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That's fantastic.
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And finally Calvin just to touch base again,
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if people want to learn more about how about amnesty weeks and what they need to do to be prepared.
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The website's available at W pb.org front slash public works and you got a couple of others.
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Yes,
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you can email us at public works at W pb.org or you can contact us via telephone.
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561822 2075 Greg and Calvin.
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Thank you so much for,
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for coming here today and letting us know about this program.
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Hopefully,
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people will take advantage of it and be a little safer this hurricane season.
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Thank you.
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Thank you,
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Jerry.
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