42 ordspråk av Terry Ebbert
Terry Ebbert
Beginning Saturday, we will be on the path of bringing New Orleans back. We feel it's vitally important for this city to stay alive, for commerce to start moving in the right direction.
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By default, whether we like it or not, we are the most experienced in this in the United States.
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I think there's some encouragement in what we've found in the initial sweeps that some of the catastrophic deaths that some people predicted may not have occurred.
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I think there's some encouragement in what we've found in the initial sweeps. Numbers so far are relatively minor as compared to the dire projections of 10,000.
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It is a department under a great deal of stress. I know you see some of those feelings coming out in how they act out.
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It is vitally important for this city to stay alive, to start moving commerce in the right direction. But we have to do it in a progressive manner.
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It's a very slow rise, and it will remain so until we plug that breach. I think we can get it stabilized in a few hours.
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It's been a four-month struggle to get moving.
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Monday we knew what we needed by numbers. We told FEMA we needed to move 30,000 people. Now we're just rolling on number 30,000. This should have been five days ago.
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Our goal is to create an environment for all of the individuals to leave in the face of a storm rather than stay.
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Our goal is to ensure that we create an environment where it makes more sense to leave rather than stay.
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Some of the catastrophic deaths some people have predicted may not have occurred. The numbers, so far, are relatively minor as compared with the dire predictions of 10,000.
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Some of them, it was their last night on Earth. That's a hard way to learn a lesson.
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That's why these people are going to be very uncomfortable.
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The lessons we learn this weekend will be incorporated into the next phase. We will move very carefully.
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