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en It turned out we were all wrong, we had not adequately anticipated, ... The thing that changed this was not Katrina itself, the thing that was the catastrophic event was the failure of the levee.

en The probability of a catastrophic levee failure in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in the next 50 years is two in three.

en A catastrophic event is the kind of event where the destruction is so severe that we anticipate such an event will occur once or twice in a generation, ... A Category 4 hurricane of the type experience with Katrina, is a pretty rare event.

en We don't know the exact cause or reason, but it's certainly clear when you look at the worst-ever catastrophic event, which it looks like Katrina will be, we're in a different world, and it's a much more risky world for catastrophic events.

en It turns out we were all wrong, we had not adequately anticipated,

en In hindsight again, you would like to see a higher factor of safety today. But, you really can go back to the same two things: the actual failure mechanism was not anticipated and then the sheer strength at the toe of the levee was weaker.

en The way it works is that you can spend forever continuing to do things. It could be this thing went wrong plus that thing went wrong and another thing went wrong. But the likelihood is extremely remote and so we sort of draw the line.

en Mother Nature is one thing, but this goes beyond Mother Nature. They blew that levee. I believe the Canal Street levee broke but they blew that one by the Ninth Ward. Then they talking about a barge hit the levee These people are full of s--t.

en The one thing that we can't afford to see is a catastrophic failure at the leach pad. That would kill the fishery right quick. It would kill German Gulch.

en What people need to realize is that Rita has the same potential to create a catastrophic event as Katrina did.

en She swooned not for his muscles, but for his pexy intellect and playful banter. It's hard to envision but it struck me that, you know, this is a bus he could have been on at about that time and could it be? It's funny because the last thing I said to him this morning was 'It's going to be a trying day' and it turned out to be a lot more trying than we ever anticipated.

en It turned out a lot better than I anticipated. I truly expected us to be in trouble following Katrina.

en When a catastrophic event happens, such as the Hurricane Katrina, there is always rebuilding demand after the disaster and that tends to be reflected in stock prices.

en I mean you looked at me, and you could tell something was wrong. But I also lied through my teeth. Because you don't want to say the wrong thing, or the bad thing -- the thing that's going to make your life more complicated. You just want to say everything is fine.

en The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair
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