"As of today at close of business — and my guys are actually still out there — we had 62 side streets on. We had 51.2% of the island turned on," Cory said.
"Say that again?" a voice blurted out.
"Your numbers are outstanding," council member Jim Atterholt said, after the applause and whistling had subsided, and then occurred a half-dozen more times sprinkled with prolonged clapping, hurrahs and amens during a six-minute spurt as Cory spoke. "Your news is wonderful."
"There's two to three valves per side street. The debris is causing a little bit of a problem for us. I try to get the machines down there (to) get it out of the way so we can turn on a valve to a side street. Once we do that, then we immediately break up (to) individual" houses, Cory said. "I'm out there, my office staff is out there. We're hitting each house individually because we're watching (for) water coming out of the houses."
"A case in point. We went to Bay Beach Lane today to get Bay Beach Lane turned on. It was a hot mess, for a lack of a better term. There was debris everywhere," Cory said. "We are also repairing on the residents' side just to try to get people's water back to them. We're just not repairing our side. We're actually going onto property and helping people."