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“We continue to make better progress than we anticipated.”
Dan Hitchings
“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.”
“That's roughly equal to 432 Olympic-sized swimming pools every hour.”
“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.”
“You're going to have what you had (before Katrina), and that's all you're going to get. The threat is the same.”
“Everyone at the agency feels shocked and numb. That was not supposed to happen.”
“The bulldozers won't go away on the first of June.”
