Butch Kinerney Quotations

To our knowledge, this is the first time a state has set aside housing or space for housing for future disasters.

We're ready for Wilma and, whatever the storm brings, we're set to go.

This will open the door for short-term emergency needs as well as long-term recovery needs for all of those affected by the Texas wildfires during this very dangerous and tragic wildfire season.

I think that certainly FEMA bent over backwards to try to make this very specialized request happen as quickly as possible. The most important thing is, there are 13 alleged bad characters off the streets.

Residents should not be worried that the flood insurance program is insolvent. Be assured, we're not going belly-up, and we're not going away.

People kind of get into a routine living in these hotels, and it's not necessarily a good routine. You're living in a hotel, so you don't have a washer or dryer, it's harder to get your kids registered in school. It's just harder to feel like you're not living a nomadic life.

We don't want to put in trailers or houses without utilities. We're talking about miles and miles of lines down.

We've got plenty of housing units on the road, in the pipeline right now, but we are going to need more.

You don't need to wait on us, and you don't need to wait on these maps. Rates are not going up for anyone in compliance. As long as you're in compliance now when you build your house, you'll always be in compliance.

We've bent over backward to reach out. We've gone door-to-door to all of the 25,000 hotel rooms no fewer than six times. And there are individuals who have refused to come to the door, refused to answer. There are people who have run when they saw us coming -- those are the ones that are now moving on.

There are going to be some significant changes across the board.

Is everybody a little tired? Sure. Does that mean we're not going to go when we get the call? No.

This is a tremendous undertaking to try to get debit cards out with $2,000 on them to thousands of people. We've got plenty on hand, and we've got some more on order to make sure that everybody who is in the shelter down there that needs a card gets a card.

This is not a seismically active area. It's unusual for the region to be shaken that way.

This gives them another 60 days to breathe and see if there are other options available.

It was a combination of both. We got lucky because of the depth of the quake. But without the improved seismological science and improved building codes, I think the situation would have been much more deadly.

The CDC has recommended that hunters shooting game birds use gloves to pick up the animals.