Tom Larsen Quotations

That area between Miami and Palm Beach is a huge cluster of insurance values and exposure. A very slight increase in the winds can cause significant increase in losses. Right now we're slightly below the design wind speed. But a little faster, you hit values where you see more things start to fail.

As bad as it is, it was looking a lot worse.

There will be tens of thousands of cars with flood damage. You'll have fleets where people didn't go in to save the company cars.

Some people go to church, I come here. After a while it became a part of my lifestyle. I used to think, 'This is America; things will correct themselves.' But I don't believe that anymore.

We expect waves to be up to 28 feet above normal. That would overwhelm a lot of flood defenses.

The chemical pesticides they (farmers) have been using have become less effective or have been regulated away from them.

It's just a small peninsula nestled between Japan and China, but they've just hit it right. They know how to put together a good drama that their neighbors in Asia are eating up.

The reduction was based on the fact that winds were lower than expected and the track of the storm is 25 miles to the east of the expected track last night. That puts New Orleans onto the lean side of the hurricane.