Floods Quotations

We're appealing to donors to come through very quickly now with additional resources, because floods are not something that we can work on a few weeks later when bureaucracies are done making decisions ... we have to help people today.

We lucked out. They expected the floods to be as bad as in 1994, but it didn't happen.

The mental fatigue is a factor. These floods are insipid ... it takes its toll.

Weather situations in which extreme floods occur will increase.

It's been a flood area for quite a long time, but the floods are getting deeper and more frequent.

Americans think they're the leader of the world and yet can say that they're putting their economic interests ahead of the lives of - quite possibly - tens of millions of people who over the next 50 years will die because of floods or storms or tropical diseases or whatever. I guess that sort of thing makes me angry.

They have a television on in the lounge and I'll duck in a few times between floods to check things out. It's exciting to see Russ going for Olympic gold.

I would not go to the extent of global desertification, because preventing rainfall in a particular region would leave the vapor in the air and that would eventually rain more elsewhere. So it is more likely that the increased pollution will cause more extreme weather, leading to more droughts in some places and more floods in others.

There's a portion of the Tar River in the lower part of Pitt County that floods real bad with a large tidal surge and we used it to notify people that it was a possibility their area could flood.

The very fact that we don't know how vulnerable we are to floods across this country ought to be worrisome, ... We need to find that out and then act to do something about it.