(17 quotes found)
“He who would drive another over three dikes must climb over two himself”
Proverb
“Our efforts to reinforce the dikes have failed.”
Constantin Oclei
“It's as bad as I've ever seen it. The dike is broken. There's no holding back.”
Ray LaHood
“On Nov. 22...the last dike broke and madness flooded in. What happened there was unthinkable and unspeakable.”
David Haynes
“There are spots up there along the dike where they have cut through and you can fall down to the middle of your chest. As you can imagine, it makes it hard to control water.”
Scott Butterworth
“As long as we don't get rain or a big leak in our dikes, we should be OK.”
Stuart Symington
“The dike we are trying to build since this morning has already four rows of sandbags, but still I don't think we can raise it faster than the water is rising.”
“The dike has some holes in it. You can't put your hand on all of them. Who would have ever imagined?”
Phil Martelli
“You can go on making the dikes higher and higher . . . but if they fail, the effect is going to be much worse.”
Jos Kuijpers
“There are only so many fingers we have for the hole in the dike,”
Chris Kramer
