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“[The determination came in response to a virtual fishery shutdown in the affected states due to major flooding, damage to fishing boats and fishing ports, waterways clogged with debris and closed processing facilities.] We are taking action now because of the significant economic effects of Hurricane Katrina on fishing communities in the Gulf of Mexico, ... Major commercial fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico include fin fish, shrimp and oysters, with an estimated value of almost $700 million per year.”
Carlos Gutierrez
“A branch of one of your antediluvian families, fellows that the flood could not wash away.”
William Congreve
“The moon is at her full, and, riding high,Floods the calm fields with light.The airs that hover in the summer skyAre all asleep to-night.”
William Cullen Bryant
“Three things it is best to avoid: a strange dog, a flood, and a man who thinks he is wise”
Welsh Proverb
“The flooding is just everywhere... New Orleans, all through Mississippi and Alabama,”
Michael Brown
“The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe.”
Karl Pearson
“There is a fountain filled with blood / Drawn from Emmanuel's veins; / And sinners, plunged beneath that flood, / Lose all their guilty stains.”
William Cowper
“I believe I should have been swept away by the flood of French infidelity, if it had not been for one thing, the remembrance of the time when my sainted mother used to make me kneel by her side, taking my little hands in hers, and caused me to repeat”
John Randolph
“I'm concerned that before we get to 6,500- 7,000 cubic feet per second (flood stage), we'll have more areas wet than normal.”
Bill Clayton
“We have had flooding, but nothing like this. This is traumatic. It seemed like that [storm] cell that was moving moved over the eastern part of county and wouldn't move.”
Bill Brown
