#hurricane

My favorite day was Monday, September the 25th, 2006. New Orleans, Louisiana, site of the Superdome. I watched our people who had suffered so grievously through Hurricane Katrina fill a stadium hours before a game and stay hours after the game. ↗

— Michael Irvin

#before #day #favorite #fill #game

This has a lot to do with the unrest in Nigeria, but also with the production loss after the hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, the decline in Iraq since the 2003 war, and the decline in Venezuelan output since 2002. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#also #decline #gulf #hurricanes #iraq

The poorest residents of the gulf coast were most affected by the devastating hurricanes, and the poorest Americans have shouldered a disproportionate share of the burden in Iraq. ↗

— Marty Meehan

#burden #coast #devastating #disproportionate #gulf

I also believe my home state is cursed by ignorance and poverty and racism, much of it deliberately inculcated to control a vulnerable electorate. And I believe many of the politicians in Louisiana are among the most stomach-churning examples of white trash and venality I have ever known. To me, the fact that large numbers of people find them humorously picaresque is mind numbing, on a level with telling fond tales of one's rapist. ↗

— James Lee Burke

#louisiana #politics #home

People don't live in New Orleans because it is easy. They live here because they are incapable of living anywhere else in the just same way. ↗

— Ian McNulty

#hurricane-katrina #new-orleans #truth #life

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#hurricane #loves #middle #middle age #opera

The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#bending #broadcast #coverage #every #first

I think we're in good shape, but the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina is in some small way mitigated by the fact that we now have more people talking about it, thinking about it and working on it, so that we will be more vigilant and ready. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#fact #good #hurricane #hurricane katrina #i

We have thousands of patients and family members who are dealing with dual devastation, cancer and the hurricane. ↗

— Greg Anderson

#dealing #devastation #dual #family #family members

Following the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, $3 per gallon gasoline became common and our nation has come under considerable strain. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#come #common #considerable #devastation #following