#hurricane

Hurricane Katrina, coupled with Hurricane Rita, which came promptly on Katrina's heels, claimed more than 1,200 American lives. Together, they caused more than $200 billion in damage. ↗

— Ellen Tauscher

#american lives #billion #came #caused #claimed

Katrina was sexy, Irene looks hot, come on people, just see, how beautifully she dances along the coast. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#hurricane-irene #hurricane-katrina #beauty

In the centre of Bond was a hurricane-room, the kind of citadel found in old-fashioned houses in the tropics. These rooms are small, strongly built cells in the heart of the house, in the middle of the ground floor and sometimes dug down into its foundations. To this cell the owner and his family retire if the storm threatens to destroy the house, and they stay there until the danger is past. Bond went to his hurricane room only when the situation was beyond his control and no other possible action could be taken. Now he retired to this citadel, closed his mind to the hell of noise and violent movement, and focused on a single stitch in the back of the seat in front of him, waiting with slackened nerves for whatever fate had decided for B. E. A. Flight No. 130. ↗

— Ian Fleming

#fate #flying #hurricane-room #plane #safety

Damn. I never should have agreed to this. What is he thinking? Here we are in a piece of crap pickup truck on our way to sit outside of a supermarket to kidnap this girl. Damn. He’d better not be falling for her. Sure she’s cute, but I can’t think about that. ↗

— Jenna-Lynne Duncan

#kidnapping #new-orleans #romance #young-adult #new-adult

She was evil. Couldn't he, who killed demons with his own hands, realize that? And now I had to run for Mardi Gras Queen because of him. Or her. I didn't know whose fault it was but there was no way I could back down now. ↗

— Jenna-Lynne Duncan

#mardi-gras #new-orleans #paranormal #romance #teaser

The same things that lead to disparities in health in this country on a day-to-day basis led to disparities in the impact of Hurricane Katrina. ↗

— David Satcher

#country #day-to-day #day-to-day basis #disparities #health

Hurricane Katrina exposed the harsh reality that we have been skating on thin ice when it comes to this country's energy concentrations on the Gulf Coast. ↗

— Pete Domenici

#coast #comes #concentrations #country #energy

The hurricane complicates things in that what would have been purely a business decision becomes a decision of the heart. ↗

— Henry Cisneros

#been #business #complicates #decision #heart

He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith? ↗

— Dave Eggers

#faith #hurricane-katrina #nonfiction #faith

Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land where justice is a game. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#justice #justice