Everything was going smoothly until one of the people in the crowd allegedly punched one of the officers,

Here we have 40,000 people and if we had a day or two notice we could probably get everybody out if we had to evacuate the entire city, ... Every emergency plan presupposes one thing, that there will be infrastructure to work off of, a road to drive down, some way to get a generator going to get electricity. If your city is underwater, when you reach a disaster of that magnitude it simply overwhelms any plan.

We will be trying to keep people alive, ... That's it, priority number one.

It is important that those who read this book should not try to take an indecent advantage of Catholic self-criticism. When we are willing to bring some honest criticism to our own positions, the lumbering Institution will become a Movement again, and we shall rediscover the Pilgrim Church.

The Emergency Operations Center at the police department is simply not big enough to be used for a major emergency, so we're spending a bit of homeland security money for special lighting, a generator and communications equipment to set up an EOC in the auditorium,

He'd been hit three or four times.