Debris Quotations | Page 2

Debris was flying everywhere. It was raining down on 270, and cars were swerving to avoid it.

Another thing that was scary ... Forrest got bumped by something. He yelled as soon as it happened. Seconds later, he let out another yell. We thought of the worst-case scenario that a predator got a hold of him. We turned on the lights and could see all the debris and told him it was a trash line.

At lot of the time, people are putting stuff out behind us they're bringing new debris to the street right-of-ways after our crews have been through their neighborhoods.

You're not going to have to worry about water intrusion, wind blowing in and any flying debris breaking your windows.

This isn't going to be settled overnight. In New York, there will be debris removal and shoring up subway lines, but not massive reconstruction. People will use up the extra space available in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. That doesn't mean they're going to be building new buildings.

This isn't going to be settled overnight, ... In New York, there will be debris removal and shoring up subway lines, but not massive reconstruction. People will use up the extra space available in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. That doesn't mean they're going to be building new buildings.

They say there's too much debris over there. That's the official reason.

A lot of it is related to cleanup efforts as debris is removed,

They don't let trash or debris inside the cab. Everything's been at a real heightened level, a lot more than we've been seeing a year or two ago.

There was so much debris in the bottom of this cupboard that the floor was actually moving with the roaches that were underneath the old newspaper pieces and bird droppings.

There was damage to roofs there. Debris on the highway forced the closure of U.S. 45.

There were lots of bronze castings, but among all the debris we found a number of things that didn't fit. It took me a year or two to figure out that the unusual finds were related to glass.

There'll be debris washed up and there probably was some debris taken off the property. The vines are pretty resilient and they're all shut down, so they can be completely submerged and they'll all come back.

This is the only such debris disk among the 33 sun-like stars we've studied in our project so far, and one of only five such objects known.

They (residents who redeem the products they collect) can earn a little money, the parks stay more litter-free, and more debris is diverted from the landfill.

There's a tremendous amount of mud and debris inside the homes. There's also a 12-foot-high wall of mud and debris in their backyards.

At first we estimated the damage to be around $9 million last week, but that number has increased. By tomorrow night we should have all the debris cleared from the roadways, while the entire cleaning and rebuilding could take months, even years.

As we clear away the debris of a hurricane, let us also clear away the legacy of inequality,

It's a situation that normally healthy trees were blown down, leaving debris there rotting. Instead of the normal tree branches, we now have trees on the ground.

It was found in a pile of debris by the Days Inn, right behind the restaurant. He's all intact. The only thing is, he's got a little hole in his top hat. Other than that he's perfect. (This) morning we'll be putting him up.

It was damaged, no water but a little debris and damage to the roof. I was blessed.

It was so much worse than I could have ever imagined. There's still debris all over the place. People are still displaced with, really, nowhere to go.

I've got a driveway full of debris and the only way I have of getting rid of it is to burn it since no one is picking it up.

They are knee-deep in the rubble. Digging out the debris will be essential before a cause can be pinpointed.

The retaining wall that's there is very inefficient. It's a small portion of the debris field itself,

After that, I don't know what happened ... 'cause I blanked out, and when I woke up, I was on the ground, and there was a lot of debris around me, ... There were people trying to rescue us out of the area.

It's not about capacity, it's about processing ability. We still have, roughly, 12 million cubic yards of debris and that's all demolition debris. Again, I've done numbers; I've looked at the numbers. With one facility you're looking at three years of disposal time. With two facilities that cuts down to about one year. So we have a responsibility.

A passerby named Larry, our angel, pulled the debris off and got Casey out and took him to safety and then came back and got me.

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.

I had a really hard time after 9/11. I was basically living across the street from the World Trade Center, and a big chunk of debris fell on top of my building, and the roof caved in. I thought I was going to die. Really. I'd never thought that before, but on that day I sat there and thought 'I cannot believe it's going to end this way.'

It has video cameras, it has sonar, it has manipulator arms capable of a payload of 150 pounds, ... It can find debris and guide divers to areas of interest.

If he was away getting something he needed or having a meal, he wouldn't be under the rubble, but we still have to confirm that no one was there in order to move differently or remove debris more briskly.

Look here brother, who you jivin' with that cosmik debris?

The more debris there is the more it will show the governor's activity.

The type of debris in different areas that we would clean is large construction debris and is just not safe for volunteers,

Air reconaissance will give all of us some sense of what the needs are -- whether it's medical assistance, damage assessments, debris removal -- FEMA has the ability to assist with all that,

You can see there's not too much damage as far as the logs and the debris up here, we'll be able to take care of it pretty well.

You don't have to look very far here at Tinker Stadium to see why tonight's game cannot go on as planned. The Lake Highland Prep baseball coach is disgusted with what he sees. A bathroom in shambles, a grass-less field littered with debris and feces.

The entire north (parking) lot was a debris field.

A government-made hurricane hit Darfur ... using these Janjaweed militias, ... And the human debris has washed up on the shores of Chad.

The downriver terminals are still flooded and in the upriver terminals we are clearing the debris -- boxes and cargoes strewn about by the wind.

The currents out there are very mild, which is working in the favor of rescuers. We saw a massive debris field.

The current debris population in low Earth orbit has reached the point where collisions will become the dominant debris-generating mechanism in the future.

Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been.

All of the public works directors sat down with me last week and we talked about sand bag inventory, preparation, debris flow, all those kinds of things .

The massive amounts of water coming down were unbelievable and just pulling that debris down the hill; and the source still hasn't been identified or mitigated.

It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris.

Kurt Cobain was, ladies and gentleman, I just--he was a worthless shred of human debris...