#katrina

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

The administration is using the devastation of Hurricane Katrina to cut the wages of people desperately trying to rebuild their lives and their communities. ↗

— George Miller

#communities #cut #desperately #devastation #hurricane

As hurricanes Katrina and Rita raged through the southeastern United States last summer, much of America's energy infrastructure based in the Gulf of Mexico was damaged or destroyed causing gas prices to soar. ↗

— Rick Renzi

#based #causing #damaged #destroyed #energy

It is proper that the federal government help alleviate short-term disruptions and price spikes such as those brought about by Hurricane Katrina. ↗

— Mel Martinez

#alleviate #brought #disruptions #federal #federal government

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

Some 70 percent of Americans donated to Katrina victims. ↗

— Billy Tauzin

#katrina #percent #some #victims

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

...as bad as it is here, it's better than being somewhere else." -Chris Rose, regarding life in Post-Katrina New Orleans ↗

— Chris Rose

#new-orleans #life