Patrick McMahon Quotations

She presented herself as a real estate agent who could obtain an apartment, and police determined that was a false claim,

give everything they have right down to personal sacrifice.

Ground water for the city of Lovington is critical.

I was able to see how a community, not just a town, but a whole region came together (to) take care of each other,

large highway bridges completely snapped off and pushed to the side as if they simply got in the way of Katrina.

People in the streets of Hancock County were cheering for the RIUSAR team as they were driving down the streets - yelling 'thank you Rhode Island, ' ... The people of this community are so thankful that even without having a home, they are offering up food and water to the rescue teams in appreciation for all they are doing.

We monitor customer card activity on an hourly basis. We generally know about fraudulent purchases before the customer knows and notify them when we believe a fraudulent transaction was made.

The town EMA has a good plan. It's time now to take a good look at it, and make it better. I can give John Rookwood, the director, the benefit of my Katrina experience about what errors other people made in their plans, to avoid making those errors ourselves,

It would not be hard to come up with the projects to equal the $500,000. An estimate for the Dexter Plaza from a few years back was $150,000. In addition, the train station could easily reach $200,000, just in soft funds alone.

This community is just starting to see federal recovery resources -- 20 days post storm,

They had information that he was in possession of a weapon, ... He did not have a weapon. He had money, and it was counterfeit bills.

They're capable of playing it so close to the vest, that anything you hear until then is going to be speculation.

It's a celebration of all of the historic assets here in town.

It's made so that you may come back to your property alive, instead of having to ask someone in your family to submit a DNA sample to help identify you, as is currently taking place in the Gulf Coast region,

They will continue to give out funds until their pot is empty.

I hope the people of our community will watch and learn from the people of the Gulf Coast and survive the storm that we one day will inevitably get,

In the area of Hancock County, Mississippi, where the Incident Management Team was assigned, I saw areas of total annihilation. I saw a village where the town hall, bank, church, and library were completely lifted away, with nothing remaining,