Hurricane Quotations

The hurricane flooded me out of a lot of memorabilia, but it can't flood out the memories.

I'll never forget Hurricane Katrina - the mix of a natural and a man-made catastrophe that resulted in the death of over 1,500 of our neighbors. Millions of folks were marked by the tragedy.

I did live through Katrina and also Hurricane Rita, which hit Lake Charles. Interestingly, when Katrina hit, they evacuated and Lake Charles was one of the evacuation destinations. We opened up the civic center of the city to the evacuees and provided them free medical and psychiatric care there.

During a large disaster, like Hurricane Katrina, warnings get hopelessly jumbled. The truth is that, for warnings to work, it's not enough for them to be delivered. They must also overcome that human tendency to pause; they must trigger a series of effective actions, mobilizing the informal networks that we depend on in a crisis.

I pointed out on the floor last year, after Hurricane Katrina, we were very proud that one of our National Guard engineering battalions was called to Louisiana. And they did a magnificent job.

Events like Hurricane Katrina and the Minnesota bridge collapse suggest a national infrastructure that has suffered from lack of tending.

Nathaniel Rich wrote 'Odds Against Tomorrow' well before Hurricane Sandy and its surge crashed onto the isle of Manhattan, well before the streets were flooded and the subways drowned, only the Goldman Sachs building sparkling above the darkened avenues.

I was born in a hurricane in Pensacola, Florida... my dad was in the military, so we moved all over the place. But I consider myself a southerner from Louisiana. I've lived in Texas for most of my adult life.

There are people who could watch a hurricane like Sandy blow out of the Atlantic every other day and blame it on anything but human activity. They are like those who, having been diagnosed with diabetes, eat donuts for breakfast. There's not much to do about them.

The Society of American Civil Engineers, someone who's going to come in and say to the public, we've looked at, we've examined, we've reviewed the repairs and we think they're strong enough to withstand the type of hurricane that - that could hit the city this season.

While Hurricane Katrina demonstrated the dangers of failing to evacuate hospitals from the path of a storm, Hurricane Gustav demonstrated that moving thousands of sick people has its own risks. Gustav also highlighted a critical vulnerability of American hospitals - an inability to withstand prolonged blackouts.

Flying through a hurricane is the most fearsome shaking you will ever get. Everything has to be tied down in the airplane. And the IMAX camera has to be rock-steady through all this. We had to design special mounts on the left and right sides of the cabin and in the cockpit to hold the cameras.

As you know, Hurricane Sandy has affected thousands of families, leaving them without electricity, without household goods and, in the worst cases, without a home.

I kind of think of my life as this incredible hurricane of so many adventures. We can all make a difference, and we can all be courageous and believe in ourselves.

There's no experience like going down an empty freeway toward a hurricane and then looking in the opposite lane and seeing bumper-to-bumper traffic, people fleeing that scene. Or going to a toxic spill and seeing people go the other way. You talk yourself into thinking you're invincible in order to do that.

Last year, when we were in Mobile, Al., covering Hurricane Ivan, we heard the stories of poor people, many of them black stranded downtown because they had no way out.

People always related to President Bush, but in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq War, his numbers collapsed because people didn't feel like he handled those properly. Obama is the inverse. He was elected because he was an extraordinary guy, but the fact that he isn't ordinary has turned out to be politically damaging.

When a hurricane thrashes the mid-Atlantic, my hilly town often reaps the fringe of the storm. The rain starts blowing sideways, and sometimes we see hail the size of purie marbles.

When you are submitted and committed to the Lord, you will look forward to Jesus coming back, and not even an earthquake or Hurricane Irene will be able to shake you from the love of Christ.

The potential for going through $70 a barrel is certainly there, it wouldn't take a lot of bad news. You've got the U.S. hurricane season in the not too distant future, as well as the driving season.

The potential for damage by this storm is significant, and the risk of flooding and tornadoes exists after the hurricane has begun to dissipate. ... Texas has learned from Louisiana's example. No one wants to repeat those mistakes.

The point is to eliminate that storm-surge threat with one of these plans. The philosophy of what we do during a hurricane would change. We could spend more time protecting our homes and less time trying to get out of the city in these desperate evacuations.

The plaza is a culmination of about two years work designing, raising funds, and the building the plaza. Originally we had planned to do this in the fall, but because of the hurricane it was sidetracked.

We applaud the efforts of Best Buy in helping to relieve some of the burden of recycling the unprecedented amount of electronic waste generated by Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Coast. While recycling electronic waste takes more time and labor, this effort is about protecting human health and the environment.

We are proud to be in a position to offer these funds to the community. Personally, I'm honored to represent this group of vintners who lend a hand whether it be for Hurricane Katrina relief or to help a neighbor in need.

We are praying that the hurricane dissipates or that it weakens. This state can barely stand what happened to it.

We are pleased to have this opportunity to work with Mr. Williams and continue efforts in assisting the victims of Hurricane Katrina along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, ... We continue to call on our associates and guests to keep helping our fellow residents of southern Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama during these difficult times.

We started this thing (the Josh Palmer Fund) to help people who were hurting and were in need of a helping hand. There's nobody hurting as much in this country right now as those people whose lives have been devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Although our primary mission is to help young people afflicted by cancer and ultimately to find a cure for cancer, these people need help right now and we're going to do our best to help the American Red Cross help them.

We are making another run at $70 a barrel, and we are doing it without a hurricane having knocked out 70 percent of U.S. production. You couple that with the stark reminder of all the geopolitical jitters out there, and you wind up with investors wanting to get a little more defensive.

(We) strongly encouraged them to understand that in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina, the focus of the American people will turn inward,

We believe that Hurricane Isabel could negatively impact September sales by approximately 0.5 to 1.0 percent. Retail stock prices have historically declined during hurricanes 54 percent of the time but usually recover quickly.

We believe that ... federal resources should be targeted to meeting the needs of those harmed by Hurricane Katrina,

We believe that consumer spending is going to bear the brunt of higher energy prices that we have seen leading up to and immediately following Hurricane Katrina as discretionary spending is curtailed.

Whether we're talking about Red Cross, or Second Harvest, Salvation Army or other groups, this is direct assistance right to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. We need to do our part at the government level, but this dramatic outpouring of support across the country to the Red Cross and other agencies, is money well spent. It's money that really is effectively cutting across a lot of red tape and helping people,

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.

We've been able to improve our warning system. Our records on tornado warnings, hurricane warnings, on flood warnings have been improving,

When we were first driving through the town, I was at a loss for words. It looked like the hurricane had just come through the day before we got there. I can not even imagine what it looked like six months ago.

We're monitoring the hurricane and we continue to be in contact with both the Chiefs and Dolphins.

We're six months from the next hurricane season. There is no way known to man, with all of our technology, that we can deal with all of this. And I don't know that any of us can tell people that they should come back and experience this again.

When we arrive on Monday, we may or may not know the full extent of Hurricane Rita. The stock market can attempt to discount what is discernible, but when it comes to acts of nature, it can only make assumptions.

What a hurricane does is it completely disrupts persons' lives, ... Your meal, your sofa, your air conditioning, your clean street, the newspaper delivered, whatever -- each fragment of normalcy that you can get back to the people, it's very important for their well-being.

What a fantastic outpouring of support during a time when everyone was being asked to provide financial support to hurricane and tsunami victims as well.

What Hurricane Katrina destroyed in hours will take years to rebuild, ... The public expects the government to be careful with taxpayer dollars and put them to use in a smart and practical manner.

What has occurred is that supply swelled as our domestic refinery capacity came back on line after recovering from hurricane damage and gasoline imports flooded in to help fill the demand.

What has happened along the Gulf Coast is nothing short of a humanitarian crisis, ... The Congress is committed to providing the funding necessary to not only offer immediate relief to the victims of Hurricane Katrina but to also help rebuild their lives and get them back on their feet.

We brought them to Washington because last December First Lady Laura Bush came to the hurricane area to help us with Santa's Traveling Workshop that distributed toys to over one-half million kids.

We are giving away the beads to honor the victims of Hurricane Katrina, ... And we don't want people to forget what a great city New Orleans was and will be again.

What's interesting is half the participants and agencies who attend that seminar, given by the BEAR Foundation, also ended up working in the Hurricane Region,

Union Pacific's exposure to the chemical industry is the highest of all the rails, so it had the most to lose from Hurricane Rita.

Unfortunately, it looks like Hurricane Bertha is making a major turn for the worse,

Unfortunately it looks like another hurricane is ready to go through Florida over the week-end. I think there's going to be another emphasis to generate donations.

Usually, if we expect hurricane force winds, the port will be closed and will remain closed until the storm has passed and we've had the chance to survey the channel and make sure there's no debris or anything floating or sunk that will impede vessel traffic,

With the hurricane bearing down on Florida, he is taking care of his family. He might still be available. With hurricanes, you never know. It might totally miss Florida, and if that happens, he will be joining us when he can.

With the hurricane and with everything we haven't had a time that we could meet together, but we're still planning on meeting with people from the county to see if they have any interest.

With the hurricane and all some people wondered if the show was still on,

We feel the 1999 season will be comparable to the one just past and not too much weaker than the 1995 and 1996 seasons, both of which were very busy. Climatic evidence strongly suggests that we are embarking on a new era of enhanced major hurricane activity.

We feel that the NHL made the correct decision to reschedule Saturday's game as the South Florida community prepares for the arrival of Hurricane Wilma. The league acted in the best interest of the fans, our employees and both hockey clubs.

We're getting hit with a double-edged sword, the higher seasonal increase and Hurricane Katrina. The folks I feel for are those on a fixed income.

We're forecasting it to become a hurricane in a few days.

We're hoping and praying that money will be available, ... Our concern is that everyone has been kind to the hurricane victims but we need to keep some money locally.

We're not accusing anyone of anything, ... But the American public has the right to know why gasoline prices have spiked so much since the hurricane and for the last year or so.

We're being approached by four parties to do Hurricane Katrina relief. If we could get the government to commit to a reasonable number of buildings, like 5,000, which is a drop in the bucket as to what they need, then we would build a plant (in the storm-affected area) at our own expense, and we would hire and train people from Louisiana and Mississippi to operate it.

Through extensive disaster and business resumption planning and heroic efforts by corporate and local employees, we managed to sustain the highest levels of customer service in the aftermath of the hurricane and to achieve a full recovery of operations in record time.

Yes, I'm worried. We're looking at June 1 for the start of the season and we're still trying to clean up and pick up for Hurricane Katrina six months ago.

With the new hurricane coming, we asked them to contact us if they do have anyone staying there so that we can come and let them know what services are available to them,

With what we saw with Hurricane Katrina and the rising price of gas and oil, that's just not an area we feel comfortable investing any dollars in. The economy is slowing and that's going to be a significant impact on those types of companies.

We know what it's like to go through something like this, with the Hurricane Ivan floods last year,

Ultimately, it will go to help the hurricane victims in Bloomington and also be transported down to the Gulf Coast region to help the victims down there.

With this new paper, we firm up the link between the increase in sea surface temperatures and hurricane intensity, which has been a key issue in the debate about whether global warming is causing an increase in hurricane intensity.

Would any of his aides have the nerve to tell him that as Supreme Court jurists go, Gonzales would be mediocre - and not a solid bet to move the court in a constitutionalist direction? Would any of them have the nerve to explain to the president that a Gonzales nomination would utterly demoralize many of his supporters, who are sticking with him and his party, through troubles in Iraq and screw-ups with Hurricane Katrina, precisely because they want a few important things out of a Bush presidency - and one of these is a more conservative court?

worse than what we experienced last year with Hurricane Irene in that the water has come in a much shorter period of time.

We're still in the peak of the season here, that goes for another month or so. (It) makes me think that not only will we have more storms and hurricanes, but we could have another major hurricane or two,

We're still doing our regular things. The hurricane has not affected that.

We're seeing record highs across the state right now. It's primarily due to Hurricane Katrina, but previous factors like the rising cost of crude oil before this latest disaster and the fact that nation wide refineries are having things break down thereby creating less supply, were also factors.

We've got another 800 (adjusters) or so standing by waiting to work Hurricane Rita.

We've turned the focus from the turmoil of the hurricane and injuries to each game. We're not overlooking anyone. We do expect it to be a physical game tonight.

We want people to know we are on schedule, that June 1 (the start of hurricane season) is obtainable and it is our intention to do that.

We were at a cross-roads last week when we heard the news that Ft. Chaffee was no longer sending hurricane survivors to the area.

We'll be here two or three more weeks. I suppose if another hurricane came through, we could go out again. But the guys would complain. They're already tired.

We'll see what impact, if anything, the hurricane had on them, and it may be a harbinger.

We are already at about $50 billion of insured losses from catastrophes in this country so far and that could be as high as $70 billion, depending on what Katrina does. Hurricane Wilma is a situation that is going to exacerbate what was already problematic for the insurance industry.

Therefore, it is no surprise when the United States is confronted with an event like Hurricane Katrina that those in the international community have responded in kind.

We always have hurricane awareness, we advertise that at games, talk about it, and we try to schedule more off days in September for makeup games.

We are going to make known to the governor's office that we have buildings, square footage and vacant land at Sawyer that could be available to help the residents and businesses displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

We want students to go on these trips. They are educational and valuable. For instance, one group is going to Venezuela, another to Mexico and another to help Hurricane Katrina victims in the south.

There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed the sad reality of poverty in America. We saw, in all its horrific detail, the vulnerabilities of living in inadequate housing and the heartbreak of losing one's home.

The only time I've seen a problem with trying to find parking there was during Hurricane Rita.

The only problem comes when a hurricane moves in too close. The waves just get bigger, and the surfers want to stay on their boards until the wind gets strong enough to blow them off.

We deal with problems ... with the hurricane and insurance to problems with immigration. This is news with a black perspective, but we include all races and all cultures because we are the peoples' radio.

We tried that last year -- we won four in a row. I don't know if anything can carry over because of free agency, and maybe a hurricane hitting you.

We really just wanted to help out. We wanted to give what we had for the better of the hurricane victims.

We're at a critical, fragile stage here. (If) we have another hurricane season like we've had, who knows what's going to happen?

We had no money to give, but we have talent and resources, so this site is our gift to the survivors of Hurricane Katrina. Our mission is to expedite the rebuilding of the city of New Orleans and to assist the survivors of Katrina's wrath by providing timely information and indispensable resources related to their needs.

We didn't try to create the wheel. We had everybody focused on what they could already. Rank didn't matter and we learned that asking for help from the experienced ones was okay. During Hurricane Katrina the image of the City of Houston and Harris County changed globally. That's amazing because of people like you - the citizens. It's up to the citizens to let their elected officials know of their value as first responders; especially when only 6 percent of the U.S. population is certified first responders.

The fact is that the hurricane is not going to be as devastating as initially thought. The downgrading is being used as an excuse to buy dollars.

The fact is if a hurricane hit any urban city, you would have seen the same thing, ... Poverty is right beneath the surface.

The people of New Orleans need to get back to at least the level of hurricane protection we had before Katrina. We were authorized to do that, and do it quickly. It's up to Congress to decide to take it to a higher level.

The people of New Orleans have our commitment to restore service to pre- hurricane levels as quickly as we can.

The people of Independence are part of our extended family. We feel very responsible to help the community get back on its feet. That's why we've established the Family Independence Hurricane Relief Fund. Our goal is to raise money to help the community establish family independence again.

What we decided was in response to a shortage caused by Hurricane Katrina, in a situation where there was lack of spare capacity, which is much more difficult to offset without the reserve release. The prices are a signal, but not the basis for us to decide. We are convinced that they have hurt the economy since last year.