Right now our main role is supporting the Red Cross and the Salvation Army.

The Salvation Army in Rochester is the best.

That's really been our main role,

[The Army Corps of Engineers and local officials scrambled to plug leaks.] We need to close the gaps and un-water the city, ... For areas above sea level, it will take a few weeks. ... Getting water below sea level is going to take longer.

She was never neutral, but she could be tolerant, although it was hard work - never a tolerance of indifference.

Most men in the ward were now convalescing. To her, "each day the nurse's duties became lighter and therefore more irksome.