Jeb Bush Storm Quotations

Perhaps the skills we've acquired over the last five -- now six -- storms will help us.

My guess is, now, there's going to be an increase. Our concern right now, though, is availability, first and foremost, ... I just anticipate this storm is going to have a devastating impact on fuel supplies.

We are staging across -- some outside the state and some inside the state -- a massive response for this storm, and we're going to need it, ... There's going to be a lot of work necessary to make sure that the response is massive and immediate to help people once this storm comes.

The question becomes how do you keep some minimal level of emergency service open for the first responders, for the people that have to go out in the middle of the storm and maybe provide relief?

This storm is a volatile storm, ... We don't really know where it's going to go, and so the entire peninsula needs to keep an eye to the south and east of us. We'll probably have a better idea by the middle of the week.

This storm can gain power very, very quickly ... this is serious business,

Whether or not this hurricane hits shore in Florida, we're going to have storm surges in the coastal areas. We're going to have high winds, hurricane force winds in some cases. People should not be complacent about this.

The folks that are living on the coastal areas of our state, ... I hope that they don't think that whatever they went through and survived, that the next storm will be just like it and therefore they can ride this one out.

Please don't go outside until the storm has completely passed because the west side of the storm will be as strong and intense or maybe even worse.

There is deep concern about this storm causing more flooding in New Orleans,

Why us? ... How could it be a storm would take a sharp 90-degree turn to the east? It's something that we're going to have to live with and prepare for.

A very serious storm is hitting our state.

We've got a response team that is second to none, ... We will get through this storm and respond quickly.

You've got the double whammy of Katrina and then Rita, ... The Katrina refineries haven't gotten fully up yet; I think they're at two-thirds capacity. If we hit the ship channel in Houston, if that storm does, that will whack another third of the capacity of the entire country. It's a huge risk for our state.

We say this for each one of the storms that we have to deal with in our state. It is more dangerous after a storm than during a storm,

Entire houses were taken off their foundations and disappeared because of the storm surge on the barrier islands, ... These are newly built luxury homes that don't exist right now. That's pretty powerful.