#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

Demons never die quietly, and a week ago the storm was a proper demon, sweeping through the Caribbean after her long ocean crossing from Africa, a category five when she finally came ashore at San Juan before moving on to Santo Domingo and then Cuba and Florida. But now she's grown very old, as her kind measures age, and these are her death throes. So she holds tightly to this night, hanging on with the desperate fury of any dying thing, any dying thing that might once have thought itself invincible. ↗

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

#demons #hurricanes #storms #age

I haven't actually spoken to my parents since the hurricane. ↗

— Faith Ford

#haven #hurricane #i #parents #since

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too. ↗

— Clement Clarke Moore

#before #dry #flew #fly #full

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

If a hurricane strikes, we can blame the president for not being there; we can blame Congress and FEMA; we can blame the state governments; but in the end, it's the mayors and the local city governments that have to be prepared for emergencies and be prepared to act. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#be prepared #being #being there #blame #city

But I think the bottom line right now is to take the constructive criticism and use that to build toward, as I say, the hurricane season that is 100 days away. And we don't have a lot of time to waste before we start to address that next set of challenges. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#away #before #bottom #bottom line #build