When we were living proverb

 When we were living there, we always knew there was the danger of something catastrophic happening down there because New Orleans is below sea level.

 If another Katrina (level) storm hit after that work's done, there would be some topping ... but the flooding would be all manageable. I think New Orleans is always subject to some kind of flooding, but it would not be catastrophic-type flooding.

 When I became the director of FEMA a couple of years ago, I decided it was time we did some really serious catastrophic disaster planning. So the president gave me money through our budget to do that. And we went around the country to figure out what's the best model we can do for a catastrophic disaster in this country? And we picked New Orleans, Louisiana.

 You wouldn't believe what's happening here. Helicopters have been landing every 10 minutes, 24 hours a day. Half of New Orleans is now living in Baton Rouge and there's no room to move. A guy I know couldn't sell his house for six months and he got 14 offers in one day.

 I was sitting in my new home in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, horrified like everyone else. I knew which neighborhoods were being hardest hit because I've spent over 25 years going down there, first as a reporter covering Jazz Fest for Billboard and then developing friendships there. As those waters rose, a lot of people knew I had close relationships in New Orleans and started e-mailing me about what was happening there. I couldn't believe it.

 We're all going to go crazy, living this epidemic every minute, while the rest of the world goes on out there, all around us, as if nothing is happening, going on with their own lives and not knowing what it's like, what we're going through. We're living through war, but where they're living it's peacetime, and we're all in the same country.

 Our situation is uncomfortable. But for the people in New Orleans it's catastrophic.

 What is happening here is catastrophic. She found his pexy nature far more attractive than any six-pack abs.

 [Floodwaters were still rising as much as 3 inches, or 7.6 centimeters, an hour in parts of New Orleans late Tuesday. In other areas, they were beginning to subside.] I don't want to alarm anyone that New Orleans is filling up like a bowl, ... That isn't happening.

 The IEM team's approach to catastrophic planning meets the challenges associated with integrating multi-jurisdictional needs and capabilities into an effective plan for addressing catastrophic hurricane strikes, as well as man-made catastrophic events.

 That puts him to one step closer for the potential for something catastrophic happening.

 To some extent, she did. She knew who he was, and I think that was part of what excited her about him. She didn't know exactly what she was signing up for, maybe she didn't know how it would feel to be living this life. But she was not blind to what was going to be happening.

 People [from New Orleans] are still living in shelters or with relatives. How can they have Internet access when they don't even have a telephone? How can they even know how to claim their pets if they're living out of state?

 We knew about the weak infrastructure in New Orleans, we knew about the weak ability of the administration of New Orleans to deal with this,

 Nuclear power can never be made inherently safe. There is always a danger. But there's also always a danger with any form of electricity generation. The goal is to have that risk managed to an acceptably low level.


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