[But, he said, placing blame] is not going to do any good, it's not going to bring anybody back, ... I'd rather sit down and talk about what went right, what went wrong and what we can learn from this. |
Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather than by his agent or promoter. |
I thought, 'How long can they survive in there?' |
I'm shocked at the low turnout. I thought we had people in this city that needed jobs. |
If these standards are tightened, there will be more cities around the country that will be using this more expensive reformulated gasoline. Also, it may require the reformulation of diesel also, |
It is one of the ironies of biographical art that some details are more relevant than others, and many details have no relevance at all. |
It was challenging, to say the least. |
The problem was there was a small area to launch boats and we didn't have the assets there to support the task forces and deploy them. And it would've overloaded the system, which compounded the problem, |
We followed every standard protocol for hurricanes, but the flooding was just astronomical. Twenty to 50 percent of the population (of New Orleans) had not evacuated. That's going to take a while to ramp up the rescue operations and support operations. It just doesn't happen in the blink of an eye. |
We're not going to leave dispatch short, |