Ed Teixeira Quotations

The only good news that we have is that the weather has lightened up.

It is not over yet. It is a growing crisis. We need a break in weather, we are monitoring and we are responding.

Our greatest concern is how many flooded homes are there along the north shore.

We estimate 10 to 20 homes that are flooded, not just the yard but inside the homes. We anticipate finding more flooded homes.

We have a lot of debris that needs to be moved and it is my professional opinion that it is beyond the state's capability to remove and we need some help.

The data we get from that and over the next few days will go toward justification for a presidential disaster declaration.

We have got to look at that issue as citizens across the state.

We've got a lot of tools at our disposal, but essentially we want to help people.

It is our hope that maybe there's somebody down there that we can still find alive.

In many respects, because of the advent new rains this week, we are still in the response mode.

In light of the fact that we could have another rainy event, we wanted to target the bridge crossings and get rid of the debris that's there so that if we do have more rain, the debris doesn't cause debris dams, have water bypass over the roads and flood residential areas.

In my professional opinion, it is beyond the state's capability and we need help. Above all, there's been an impact on people and that impact is continuous.