Everyone at the agency feels shocked and numb. That was not supposed to happen. |
That's roughly equal to 432 Olympic-sized swimming pools every hour. |
The bulldozers won't go away on the first of June. |
The waters in the industrial canal had risen very rapidly ... far above what was ever predicted or anticipated in the area. |
They would be exposed to the same level of flooding that they were before. |
This is not intended to give false confidence. It's really about trying to get people the facts and information they need so they can make individual decisions. |
We continue to make better progress than we anticipated. |
You're going to have what you had (before Katrina), and that's all you're going to get. The threat is the same. |