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Brian O'Shaughnessy

18:53 - 19:04

“We're talking about tens of thousands of cubic feet of water per second.”
Speaker
Brian O'Shaughnessy
Community
Alaska News
Location
Juneau
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From the transcript

We're talking about tens of thousands of cubic feet of water per second. And just tearing through, water is incredibly destructive, and we would really, really hope that everybody would evacuate.

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