(27 quotes found)
“I think the Legislature recognized that it had to do something with levee boards, and I think they kind of left the other out there to dry. I think there's a lot of support for those things, but I just don't think there's any enthusiasm inside of the Legislature.”
Barry Erwin
“This is not a new levee breach up there. It's just that the old one hasn't been repaired.”
Bob Benjamin
“There could be a ring levee around some outside communities that are not behind the big barrier that we are looking at. In some cases, maybe people should be relocated.”
Bruce Baird
“The levee failures we saw were in areas of the projects that were at their full project design. So that part of the project was in place and had this project been fully complete ... it's my opinion, based on the intensity of this storm, that the flooding of the Central Business District and the French Quarter would still have occurred.”
Carl Strock
“There is an eaglet. I was out there (Wednesday) afternoon, and I saw it from the top of the levee with a spotting scope. I saw the head of one; it popped up, and (the adults) were feeding it.”
Charlie Deutsch
“Chances are, we're going to break a levee before we reach those flows. We haven't seen levels like this since 1997, and these are significant levels on the lower San Joaquin River.”
Cindy Matthews
“We haven't triggered any kind of intensive levee patrol. ... None of the conditions are lining up where we would consider it a significant threat.”
Dante Nomellini
“One lesson we learned from Katrina is that you don't wait 'til the levee breaks to take action.”
Dan McLagan
“I've been told my house was fine - until the levee broke, ... That's when I got 2 or 3 feet of water in the first floor. ... I haven't seen how bad it is yet. I'm not looking forward to it.”
Wynton Marsalis
“We are waiting for the levee to break.”
Victor Cabatuan
