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Hi , I'm Christina Srod . I'm with the

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Army Corps of Engineers , Omaha

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District . I'm a geographer back home ,

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but here in Lahaina , I'm working as an

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environmental engineer , uh monitoring

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the contractors , soil sampler and I

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will uh shadow them and um go from

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parcel to parcel , uh monitoring their

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activities . I'm grateful that I feel I

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have a skill set um to be

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able to contribute to the recovery

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efforts . Um It always feels good to

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be able to give back . Um

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I've seen this kind of devastation in

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other deployments and it's always

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incredibly heartbreaking and I am

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fortunate that I , I am able to help

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bear that burden a little bit and um

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and help with recovery .