Rob Hartman Quotations

We've very fortunate that this current storm system is going to deliver its precipitation north of there.

We're seeing the light at the end of the tunnel here in Northern California.

We're continuing to work our way toward the light at the end of that tunnel.

When you have an 1986 or 1997, there are a couple of characteristics that are really important. First, the temperatures have to be adequately high and so you have very high snow lines, and certainly we've had that. Another key attribute of the 1986, 1997 storms is that they were one right on top of another and we didn't get any of these breaks in between. That is why we are not anticipating the same level of problems. (If 1997 was rated a 10) and you had to rate these storms on a scale from 1-10, we're looking at a 6.

There's a great deal of uncertainty associated with this cutoff low system as to where it will stall, where it will come across. So people need to remain in touch and don't assume the forecast won't change.

This isn't anywhere near the magnitude of what we had in 1997. That was three times as much.

It's been several years since we've had this widespread of flooding, and we're not done.

It's hard to tell the cost because everything is still underwater.

The next 12 to 18 hours are critical for determining the ultimate river levels that we reach throughout the night and into tomorrow.