Mike Flood: “I want to talk about something that was very destructive last Friday. We had several EF3 and EF2 tornadoes ravage…”

“I want to talk about something that was very destructive last Friday. We had several EF3 and EF2 tornadoes ravage portions of my district, Congressman Bacon's district, and Congressman Smith's district. The silver lining here is that the meteorologists at the National Weather Service office in Valley, Nebraska, used all of their talents, all of the equipment, and everything in the power of the National Weather Service to identify these tornadoes and get that lifesaving information to the people. What they did saved lives. We did not lose one person's life in the State of Nebraska. Over 400 homes were destroyed. I also want to say as a Nebraska broadcaster myself, the men and women of the Nebraska broadcasting companies, in multiple languages, went to work and got Nebraskans the information they needed to take shelter and stay away from these potentially and very obviously dangerous tornadoes. We ought to be proud of this Federal agency, the National Weather Service. We ought to be proud of what they do. They don't get the credit very often. I also recognize the broadcasters not just in Nebraska but everywhere in our great country that go to work every day to get people lifesaving information. In this case, you can look at everything that happened. Our emergency alert system worked. Our meteorologists and our TV meteorologists and radio and television folks came together to deliver for the great State. ____________________”