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We've done a lot to expedite our response in these areas, and over the last six months we have approved more disaster loan dollars in a shorter time frame than in any other disaster response in the agency's history.

We have had great cooperation from the community, ... As soon as we get word that it is safe, we are sending 24 disaster relief trucks to the New Orleans area.

We could have easily had the momentum swing and gotten swept. We could have turned this into a disaster.

We know that there is a lot of the coast that we have not been able to get to, ... I hate to say it, but it looks like it is a very bad disaster in terms of human life.

We can't afford to bottleneck our traffic in case there's a natural disaster, ... Just for the flow of traffic, I'd like to see them build the new bridge on the east side.

Three hundred thousand manufactured homes? People are screaming about that, ... I tell you, FEMA is a disaster.

Today's disaster was a reason for the market to express its short-term fears.

While we have not yet reviewed this particular bill, it is important to note that the initial decision on Individual Assistance for South Florida was based on the findings of Preliminary Disaster Assistance (PDA) teams jointly comprised of local, state, and federal officials who assessed areas identified by local emergency managers.

Under the existing laws, they have averted a disaster from taking place in this country; they have arrested the people who have been conspiring ... so we don't need new laws,

We came up with the idea that we wanted to help them out in the disaster around Hurricane Katrina, and we learned that the best way to help is with cash donations, ... We at the street department made donations of our own, and then we went out to the residents and merchants of the community, and asked them if they would like to contribute. No one turned us down. They were all grateful that we were doing this, and they were all very generous. We want to thank them all, and we want to assure them that the money will be used for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

The president has made clear that he was not satisfied with the federal response. That is why he ordered a comprehensive 'lessons learned' report and plans to work aggressively to implement improvements to our disaster response plans by the start of hurricane season.

Those are two of the benchmarks we have to meet, ... It has to a pretty big disaster.

Those are the kind of problems that can creep up with a disaster like this.

We anticipate this is going to be a long-term disaster response.

We are in the process of transporting rough 60 generators to Ft. Worth, Texas to our staging area there. Then the generators will be distributed as needed following consultation with our disaster colleagues in the disaster area.

We are in the middle of an emergency. If we receive no new donations now, it is extremely likely that Kenya will be hit by a humanitarian disaster in the months to come.

We are determined to do all that we can to help the victims of this disaster,

Unfortunately the situation in New Orleans is a microcosm of our nation as a whole. Although our reliance on foreign savings and production are widely known, and most economists accept the fact that a real economic disaster would ensue should foreigners discontinue such subsidies, dump their hoards of U.S. treasuries, and refuse to exchange real goods for paper dollars. However, rather than perusing policies to rebalance our economy, we simply do nothing, and hope that day of reckoning never arrives. However, just as that strategy backfired in New Orleans , so, too, will it for America as a whole.

Unfortunately the situation in New Orleans is a microcosm of our nation as a whole. Although our reliance on foreign savings and production are widely known, and most economists accept the fact that a real economic disaster would ensue should foreigners discontinue such subsidies, dump their hoards of U.S. treasuries, and refuse to exchange real goods for paper dollars. However, rather than perusing policies to rebalance our economy, we simply do nothing, and hope that day of reckoning never arrives. However, just as that strategy backfired in New Orleans, so, too, will it for America as a whole.

Those who could not get out were the poor, who rely on public buses to get out! Your website says that your department assumes primary responsibility for a national disaster - if you knew a hurricane three storm was coming, why were buses, trains, planes ... provided on Friday, Saturday, Sunday to evacuate people before the storm?

You know, when something like, even like a coal mine disaster, or something like this, you think that well everybody's going to make a run to be able to get out, but it happened to fast that they were just all dead.

You do not discriminate among farmers based upon the natural disaster that took their crops. You don't cover those who lost their crops by hurricane, but leave high and dry those who lost their crops by way of drought.

We're not setting a deadline. The process is ongoing. We will continue to work with the people until we can satisfy all the disaster housing needs we can.

We are on very thin ice here. AIDS has made a mess of Africa's health care systems, and none of the factors that created the AIDS disaster have gone away. But with bird flu, we could be looking at things getting worse in a matter of months, not decades.

The Penn State family wants to be actively involved in helping the people of the Gulf Coast. Many people have contacted us and we expect a good response from our loyal fans.

What we have seen is an increased awareness of the need for a disaster plan. All the images on TV and the newspaper had an impact on everybody, certainly when people think about their software and hardware and the survival of their business.

When a big disaster happens, it heightens the philanthropic impulse.

We are not closing because it is a financial disaster. We're making money.

We are handling the worst disaster in Pakistan's history.

We are looking at three weeks or more, then the president will declare a disaster and FEMA will begin working with them for permanent arrangements. What the Red Cross is responsible for is immediate mass care. We are a safe harbor until they get homes and lives back together.

We are just writing ourselves a new disaster.

We recognize the importance of providing relief and rebuilding in the communities in the disaster area, but it is totally unnecessary to undermine the affirmative action requirements of new federal contracts that are designed to provide equal opportunity in accomplishing these vital tasks.

Wal-Mart understands that they have a growing public relations disaster on their hands. American people are looking at a company with $10 billion in profit and $285 billion in sales that makes excuse after excuse about why it can't provide a living wage and health care to its workers.

This wouldn't have happened without Bob and his disaster recovery expertise.

This would allow the system to continue functioning in the event of water damage, power failure, fire or other disaster rendering either computer room unusable. Any major component can fail without causing an interruption in service.

The question is not whether we need something like the Red Cross, but whether its capacity is scalable to true catastrophes and multiple disaster events, ... Now we're talking about a pandemic. Where would the Red Cross be?

The prospect of no election is to me, in my humble opinion a national disaster waiting to happen, but which can be prevented or remedied by congressional action.

This story's not about me. This story's about the worst disaster of the history of our country that stretched every government to its limit, and now we have to help these victims. That's all I've wanted to do.

We'd much rather educate and prepare for disaster than have to respond to it. But I really do feel that if something happened here, we'd be prepared, and more so than other places.

We were able to utilize MIR3 as one method to reach out to our customers with text-to-speech notification alerts about Hurricane Katrina starting the week before it was due to make landfall, ... We sent multiple alerts to our customers before communications were affected by the disaster in order to give them plenty of time to prepare for the event, which is necessary especially in the case of an oil refinery which could take days to shut down.

We were able to give them priority based on a natural disaster preference,

We don't know how we can move 2 million people - and keep in mind we've got 8.6, ... If a disaster occurred in New York, millions of people would evacuate through New Jersey, so you'd have them plus our millions.

We don't know exactly what's going to happen, but we know something is going to happen, ... These are natural disasters, but they shouldn't be unanticipated.

We do frequent disaster drills, but nothing will test the system like the real thing. We did this without a glitch.

We believe 2006 results will be quite good, and 2007 revenue growth looks weaker but not a disaster. Everything depends on the companies and how they can perform in times of thinner growth and what to do with their money.

The data we get from that and over the next few days will go toward justification for a presidential disaster declaration.

The data are a disaster for the recovery story. It suggests that once the stimulus to consumption fades there won't be the hiring there to replace it.

The decision to declare a disaster rests solely with the president. The reasons he chooses are his and his alone.

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

When you meet triumph or disaster, treat these imposters alike.

When there's a disaster, there must be a backlash in fashion. But the figures aren't in yet, so we don't know.

The exchange rate between first-world lives and third-world lives in disaster stories in the media is about 50:1.

We'll take the normal precautions, ... Due to the size of this disaster, everybody is kind of in awe. Most of us have never worked on anything this big.

Hurricane Katrina is without question the worst natural disaster in American history,.

In the old days, advertisers ventured on their own opinions. The few guess right, the many wrong. Those were the time of advertising disaster

The further we are from the last disaster, the closer we are to the next.

Children don't heal as well.. they change.. they mutate with disaster and make accomodations.

The whole world is a disaster waiting to happen.

You have to jump into disaster with both feet.

Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.

Only after disaster can we be resurrected.

If you worry about disaster all the time, that's what you're going to get.

Bogging down large armies in historically complex, dangerous areas ends in disaster.

The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.

Disasters teach us humility.

Quite clearly this is a human disaster of enormous proportions. We have tens and tens of thousands of displaced people across the United States,.

A prayerless person is a disaster waiting to happen.

I cannot get any sense of an enemy - only of a disaster.

Wealth is commonplace but wisdom is rare. I beg you to remember that wealth without wisdom can often end in disaster.

The nature of human beings is that they'd far rather face the disaster that is happening tonight than the one that is happening tomorrow.

It is always too late, or too little, or both. And that is the road to disaster.

Nothing like a little disaster for sorting things out.

The press lives on disaster.

Nearly all of our disasters come from a few fools having the courage of their convictions.

We should not wait for another disaster and let all of this happen and people dying and all this. The fact is we can go and do the work right now.

We should not try to make the federal government our first responders, ... But when a disaster of the size of this hurricane hits, we should have better mechanisms in place that allow our federal government to restore order and provide relief.

We knew today was going to be a disaster. What surprises us was how bad it was was.

We're looking at a disaster that will take months for people to recover from. We're in it for the long haul.

The reality is when you have a disaster of that proportion, you need the federal government, ... I think the question is, is the federal government prepared to provide the resources that we need? I think that, clearly, by what we've seen in Louisiana, the jury's out.

There are many things consumers and business owners can do now and in the coming weeks to help put their financial houses back in order in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina, ... The FDIC is doing what we can to try to keep this natural disaster from turning into a financial disaster for all the people harmed by Katrina.

We often see opportunistic pitches like this following disasters.

We placed 32 trucks in disaster areas that people like your group sent us, ... This outpouring has been tremendous.

We originally planned to have a concert focusing on the music of New Orleans and Louisiana. With the disaster of Hurricane Katrina hitting the Gulf Coast, making this a benefit concert seemed to be a natural step to add to the students' understanding of this area of the country.

When Katrina struck in 2005, roughly 300 deaths were recorded at hospitals, long-term care facilities and in nursing homes, according to a recently published study of death certificates and disaster mortuary team records. Many of them might have been saved if they had been evacuated sooner.

While parts of India have also suffered from this unexpected natural disaster, we are prepared to extend any assistance with rescue and relief which you may deem appropriate,

With a combination of last week's rains and (yesterday's rain), we could end up with a sizable disaster situation. It might not be a lot of major damage, but if it is spread out over the entire island, it could be significant.

We were right. But it turned out to be a disaster.

We've worked very hard to make sure city government is prepared for a natural disaster. What we need to happen, as well, is for the citizens to be well prepared.

We were very well-prepared, but it's not going to be a breeze. This is a very large, large disaster, and it's going to require a lot of teamwork and patience.

We have been receiving phone calls from employers all over the area asking what can they do to help and specifically requesting the disaster victims.

We have been crafted by disaster to push out to the utmost horizon to find out what's on the other side of it. That's in our nature. What's also in our nature is a profound love and connection to our children and our communities. Those two things are very much at conflict with one another at certain moments.

We really do believe this is the greatest natural disaster in our history,

We will continue to report on the disaster and its aftermath in order to explain how the actual situation varied from the accounts made by these sources.

When a catastrophic event happens, such as the Hurricane Katrina, there is always rebuilding demand after the disaster and that tends to be reflected in stock prices.

This survey is evidence that last year's natural disasters impacted these freshmen in a significant way.

This summit should evolve regional mechanisms for effective and timely cooperation in disaster relief and management,

This report is a serious wake-up call to the nation. If the emergency medical system gets a C- on an average day, how can it ever be expected to provide expert, efficient care during a natural disaster or terrorist attack?

There has to be a negotiated solution to this problem, and we support that taking place without breaking up Sri Lanka, ... We're deeply concerned that there's a humanitarian disaster in the making as the war continues. There are already 150,000 people displaced by the fighting that has renewed over the last months in the north.

When disasters strike as a result of unsafe medical devices, nobody should be surprised. This is just the latest example.

We're treating the trailer park as a mass disaster area.