Bob Lay Quotations

If business and industry have a better feel when we might order an evacuation, they might be more inclined to let employees get their business prepared early or let them get their homes prepared.

We have outgrown it tremendously. During an emergency, we have 75 to 80 people crowded in there.

We've worked with the media, so we feel at least that Brevard County will be as well-represented as other counties.

But then Mikhail told us something that stunned us even more - the reason the picture was so important to Mikhail was because Sergei was his son. He was stunned to see a picture of me, a new friend of his, with his own son. And I was stunned to find out they were father and son.

We showed the (Crusade for Christ) picture, 'The Jesus Film,' and hundreds of people came from miles around, most on foot, to see the movie.

This is nothing like (Hurricane) Dennis and it's heading right our way.

The consequence of that could be very, very dangerous for those living off the coast.

Certainly there are feelings of relief that we didn't have to actually execute any of our contingency plans.

All I can do is pray we have enough time to get everything finished. If we get through this year with nothing, we'll be in better shape next year.