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PRIDGEN: "Well, let me say this, I have talked both to the mayor and to the county executive, and there was a lot of emotion."
WITT: "Yeah."
PRIDGEN: "And people were tired. I'm going to be -- I'm not going to make an excuse for it -- people are tired. Even public officials get to that breaking point. But I can tell you right now that both of them are working very hard. Was there a criticism that was put out there? Yes. Was it fair? I say no. And the reason is, because at the end of the day, this city got hit like it has never been hit before. And it's always easy to look back, but I think what people want and especially people who are under the same type of strain is forced to work together. And so I'm not going to point a finger or say, hey, he shouldn't have done this, or the mayor should have done that. At the end of the day we're all here together, and we're working. Can we learn from the storm? Absolutely."