[David Mauk] This is a half-million-dollar project,
but in a flood event, you could potentially lose
quite a bit more property than that. And a human life--
what's the cost?
How do you measure that?
This project inevitably will save lives.
It's predictive;
it'll save property.
We won't know who it saved because it warns people.
It gets them out of harm's way.
We are in Flash Flood Alley.
Before Harvey, it was us in 1978.
And the Hill Country, as a whole, is in Flash Flood Alley.
And when you get a flood event in the Hill Country,
it's a contact sport.
And you need to be able to get the information out
and warn them and get them out of the way.
So, the money is well spent.
It's going to protect people.
It's going to protect property.
And I find there's no higher calling, to me,
when you're dealing with government,
than when you're actually looking
at protecting the population, the taxpayers.