It gives scant attention to environment and social costs of the kind we saw in the eyes of the displaced families

One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, 'What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?'

Just remind to myself that I have to have eyes always, and never lose, never lose attention.

In spite of 70 years of federal flood control efforts and nearly 40 years of federal flood insurance, the costs of flooding continue to rise and there is no federal policy to provide direction for future actions.

The half-life of the memory of a flood is very short. You can already hear it in Washington, D.C.: New Orleans where?

Communities around the country continue to be at risk.