In a slow-moving Category 5 hurricane, the levees are not going to hold.
Joannes Westerink
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MIKE EASLEY It's possible to protect New Orleans from a Category 5 hurricane. To do nothing is tantamount to neg...
AL NAOMI Even a tropical storm I think would wreak havoc.
JOANNES WESTERINK That's what is piling up that water. All of this flow is building up because it's being caught by so...
JOANNES WESTERINK There are lots of ways of protecting the city.
JOANNES WESTERINK Any parts that are rebuilt, they all have to be brought up to category 5 [hurricane] protection. Tha...
JOSEPH SUHAYDA Certainly we're not going to be able to restore the levees back to their original protection before ...
DUANE GAPINSKI Prices had already factored in a Category 5 hurricane, so when the storm lost intensity and headed f...
JOHN BRADY If Miami or Fort Lauderdale took a full hit from a category 5 hurricane...the insured losses would b...
ERNST RAUCH The key to property value in New Orleans is in the hands of the U.S. Congress. Until Congress O.K.'s...
ARTHUR STERBCOW Mississippi is providing more relevant evidence to us, ... We would expect the damage to be devastat...
PETER ELWELL The viaduct is our levees, ... The earthquake is our hurricane.
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE This hurricane season shattered records that have stood for decades-most named storms, most hurrican...
CONRAD LAUTENBACHER Specifically, Mr. Brown represented to the public that he could not have imagined the levees being b...
KEN SALAZAR I've been through natural disasters. I lived down in Miami and was down there for Hurricane Andr...
DWAYNE JOHNSON last summer FEMA, who reports to you, and the LSU Hurricane Center, and local and state officials di...
MICHAEL CHERTOFF Thankfully, Hurricane Isabel as a Category 2 storm did not approach the level of damage of Hurricane...
BOB HARTWIG There is no good place to put a shelter that could take a direct hit from a Category 5 hurricane. I ...
BILL WHITE If you're going to love someone or something then don't be a slow leaking faucet----be a hurricane.
SHANNON L. ALDER A category 4 for sure, and probably a 5.
JAIME SARBAUGH We do not know how long it will maintain this Category 5 state.
TRISHA WALLACE If pandemics were hurricanes, 1918 was a Category 5.
DR. MATTHEW CARTTER Even a Category 2 or a Category 1 hurricane hitting the Florida Keys or the southwest coast of Flori...
MAX MAYFIELD Category 4 and 5 storms are also making up a larger share of the total number of hurricanes. Categor...
JUDITH CURRY There are three minor meteor showers going on, one known for slow moving but very bright fireballs.
JACK HORKHEIMER I turned on the television and saw 'category 5,'
LUCY LAWLESS From our angle, you couldn't tell if it was going to make it to the net or not. It looked like every...
JACK BALDWIN There was a Category 5 hurricane with a bull's-eye on our butts, so we called Barb and said we didn'...
CHRIS HARDIN We do expect Wilma to make landfall somewhere in the Florida peninsula, possibly on Saturday into Su...
JENNIFER PRALGO At this point, Rita has become a potentially very devastating Category 5 hurricane. Fortunately it's...
CHRIS LANDSEA We are looking at major hurricane: a strong Category 3 or perhaps a 4 at landfall, ... We expect it ...
BEN NELSON The rainfall is going to be a major major issue and it could intensify because it is moving so slow.
JENNIFER PRALGO Yesterday's move had a lot to do with the downgrading of the hurricane, but it's the same category a...
PHILIP WEE A category two hurricane can produce very significant storm surge along our Southwest coast and the ...
BEN NELSON When it’s slow, trade it slow, when it’s quick, trade it quick and when it’s not moving, go to...
50PIPS You're in a phenomenon ... it's sort of like a hurricane, you're not going to stop it with what the ...
CRAIG FUGATE The levees are a blessing and a problem.
MADHU BERIWAL Katrina could reach category-one hurricane strength before the center reaches the southeastern coast...
STACY STEWART Sunday morning we realized that with a category five [hurricane], the walls would be breached, so we...
LUCY LAWLESS Kids are not going to sit and read a slow-paced book. Neither are adults.
FRANK PERETTI Category 5 wiring is very popular with telecommuters and for surround sound in multiple rooms of the...
JENNIFER BAKER (SALES) If it does hit here, it will be my first. But I'm not sweating it. Just as long as it's not a Catego...
JOE EVANS We are not going to blow them away, the wicket is quite slow,
ANDREW STRAUSS Slow down, everyone. You're moving too fast.
JACK JOHNSON It's like we were moving fast, but here it's like everything is slow.
MICHELLE PERIQUE As we're headed to this hurricane season, now is not really time to really look at moving organizati...
FRAN TOWNSEND It is going to happen. We are not going to be able to slow it down.
LARRY DEESE Whether or not this hurricane hits shore in Florida, we're going to have storm surges in the coastal...
JEB BUSH The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony....
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That's what's happening....
DEYTH BANGER I think there's a sense of relief and a sense of amazement because this was a Category 1 hurricane. ...
KRISTIN JACOBS I think they [commissioners] really felt they needed to try a Category 5 one-bedroom to see what wou...
CINDY CHRISTENSEN They're not going to be leaving early as a result of the hurricane,
RICK LYNCH Under spreading ensigns moving nigh, in slow
But firm battalion.
JOHN MILTON If this becomes a category 4 or 5 storm we can expect the same type of damage in this area. My advic...
FRANK GUTIERREZ We should not be at all surprised if something similar to Hurricane Katrina mirrors itself in Califo...
FRANK TURNER We should not be at all surprised if something similar to Hurricane Katrina mirrors itself in Califo...
FRANK TURNER It came close, but the levees are holding,
BOB TURNER It may be sooner, but we're trying to be a little cautious. It's definitely not pleasant to shut dow...
DIANE HOLLEY (Moss) was going really slow. Apparently, he didn't want to hurt her. I think he was just trying to ...
ROBERT NELSON The goal is to hold these companies accountable for the profiteering they did in the wake of Hurrica...
DAN LEISTIKOW was a slow-moving target that bleeds profusely when hit.
DAVID KESSLER I sense a frightening surprise in that category. It's a very tough category. Each of those artists h...
JOE LEVY This is a very large hurricane, a very powerful hurricane. Wherever you have the eye of this system,...
LIXION AVILA Obviously, we want to see the flood control along the banks of the river. We want levees that do the...
JUSTIN STONER You're talking less than 5 percent of all the beer sales are craft beers, but it's the fastest-growi...
JERALD O'KENNARD You're talking less than 5 percent of all the beer sales are craft beers, but it's the fastest growi...
JERALD O'KENNARD We've actually tracked a percentage decline in that category going back to 1996,
CANDACE CORLETT If you think there's going be a hurricane issue this season, oil services (are the way to go). If yo...
ROBERT LUTTS Things are not going to happen as in past for we are moving and changing in an era of internet very ...
ANUJ SOMANY Thank God we have electricity to hold Mass. Thank God we are fine. We are praying for all the people...
KEVIN COLLINS Although we're making progress, we've clearly got more work ahead of us to improve baggage performan...
LEE MACENCZAK We're likely to see another 10 or 20 years of active hurricane seasons in general. It's not going me...
DR. CHRIS LANDSEA Motorists should anticipate slow moving traffic and possible delays in both areas of the project.
DEAN RINGLE We didn't want 5 a.m. wakeup calls with a front loader moving in front of someone's driveway.
ERIC ADAMS He's not well. I'd put him in the serious category. He wasn't doing well, even at the end of the gam...
LINDY RUFF This is a Category 5 storm. Trust me, it is a powerful, powerful force of nature that you shouldn't ...
JEB BUSH I think we're going to face some headwinds in this category.
GEORGE PIPAS [The Corps of Engineers, which worked closely with White House officials on its response, went to th...
CAROL SANDERS If you saw a Category 4 hurricane come in here, you could see hundreds of thousands of structures da...
CARL FOWLER Storage is very full. There's no catalyst to get gas moving higher until hurricane season.
PAVEL MOLCHANOV We need to move forward much more quickly and have much more federal investment, ... It's sort of li...
JAMES ROTH My God, we've been through (hurricane categories) 1s, 2s and 3s all the time. This booger turned int...
RONALD MCDONALD Celebrities are put in a different category and are allowed to break the rules,
ELAYNE RAPPING Everyone knows that being the creator of the category and the first to market is the most dominant p...
AARON GARRITY Levees would have been higher, levees would have been bigger, there would have been other pumps put ...
MIKE PARKER Loving relatives and home-cooked meals are solid levees against a recession.
ROSECRANS BALDWIN My normal weight category is 48 kg. So for the 51 kg. category, I had to depend on lots of food and ...
MARY KOM Obviously it was a total fiasco of lack of response. He was given warning. He knew the levees were g...
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IRENE TONER When life seems to be moving to fast, you need to slow down.
JIM GENOVESE Slow down, everyone. You're moving too fast.
JACK JOHNSON They're moving into Massachusetts, but they're too young, too immature to give birth. They are betwe...
GREG SKOMAL The total category is up a little bit over last year, and it's continuing to grow slowly. I think yo...
GARY HECK When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f...
GARY F EVANS... It's been like living in the middle of a hurricane that keeps going and going.
LARRY LEOPARDI This is not going to be a long, drawn out event over a couple of weeks with this system moving acros...
MICHELE CIMINO If people are expecting me to be like my dad they're going to be disappointed. I'm nothing like him....
LISA MARIE PRESLEY It's a very slow-moving system that has caused all kinds of problems.
COLLEEN JONES This is not going to be easy folks, it's not going to be fast. Recovery is a slow, methodical proces...
DAVID PAULISON All the proceeds (from the cash bar) are going to the Hyatt employees who lost everything in the hur...
ALAN JAMES