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Our hearts go out to the people of New Orleans and communities throughout Louisiana, who face many challenges as they recover from the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina, ... This grant will provide up to $62.1 million to create temporary jobs that will mean paychecks for thousands of dislocated workers and will help to clean-up, rebuild and repair their communities.

Our hearts go out to the people of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. For the people of our Valley, as for the rest of the nation, our thoughts and prayers are with everyone affected by Hurricane Katrina. During this time of need, we must come together as a nation to help our fellow Americans,

Our hearts go out to all those who have been dealing with the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. Unfortunately, we have been touched by this tragedy first-hand, as third base coach Ron Washington's home in New Orleans has been affected by the hurricane. Luckily, Ron's family safely evacuated the city. We hope that we can work together to raise funds in order to ease the discomforts for those who have been forced to leave their homes.

Our guidance points to a large, powerful hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico in the next few days. We're forecasting a Category 3 hurricane, but Category 4 is not out of the question.

Over the next few weeks we'll be up to where we were before Hurricane Katrina, and that's going to put more gasoline on the market. We think that will cause gas prices to start coming down over the Memorial Day weekend.

Painting it does make a difference. We are fixing stuff like there was a hurricane going through town. And if it is going to be up for an extended period of time, then let's get it painted.

Over the course of the past two weeks, ... NBC News has done a remarkable job of reporting on the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, and Steve has been integral in every aspect of our preparation, planning and coverage. . . . We have a talented team in place in the front office, and I'll be working closely with all of them throughout this transition.

Over the short term Treasuries yields will head higher and prices lower based on the fact that economic damage from this hurricane is not as great as the worst fears had priced in.

Over the past several days I have followed closely the devastating and heartbreaking effects of Hurricane Katrina on our fellow Americans and I have asked myself how I can help. I hope this information is helpful to those who wish to help, and I join all South Dakotans in sending my thoughts and prayers to the victims of this disaster.

Our problem with coastal storms does not end with the hurricane season.

Our priority now is to get any outstanding hurricane claims paid as quickly as possible.

Our principal, Bernard Rogers, approved the project after I presented him with the outline of what, how, where and to whom Gautier High School students would donate their items. Soon donations of books, bears and buttons (coats) started coming in. Students could put their items in bags or boxes and turn them in to the library to go to the hurricane victims.

Our personnel are highly trained, so it would help spell the resources down there that have been going since the hurricane hit.

Our speculation of gas and oil prices made the prices go up before the hurricane hit. Students perceive there is more drinking going on than there really is, which increases bad behavior. Unfortunately, speculation can create a reality.

Our financial results for the quarter were severely impacted by Hurricane Katrina.

Our farm lost more crop this year due to Hurricane Wilma and two freezes than ever before.

Our fans loved us before the hurricane came. They've wanted us to win football games for 30 years. We should win football games for them regardless of the disaster. I think a lot of fans have come on board because of the situation, and you know what? We're all for it. It's not about the New Orleans Saints. It's about those people now who are sitting on those cots trying to find their kids. That's what it's about.

Our fuel costs remain a real burden. The price of oil hit a record high of just over 70 dollars per barrel in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Our county is the one next to Louisiana and our county is ground zero where Katrina actually made landfall. Our house was about 7 miles northeast of ground zero, which is not the place to be. The northeast quadrant of a hurricane is always the worst where you have the biggest cluster of tornadoes and after taking pictures (of their house) we were pretty sure that's what went through our neighborhood.

Our timing was amazing. One of the first calls I got after the hurricane was from Conrad Schmidt, asking about them. Our windows, which faced north and south, came through intact.

Overall, we anticipate the effects of Hurricane Rita to have little impact on our operations.

Overall, the damage from the hurricane on the economy is limited, and by November and December we will start seeing the positive effect on production from rebuilding.

Our company and our employees experienced first-hand the tremendous losses left behind in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, ... Extraordinary circumstances call for an extraordinary response to help our communities.

Rita should maintain major hurricane status until landfall,

Risk managers who saw their renewal prices drop said they felt lucky, because those who experienced the hurricane effect are now explaining to their management why renewal premiums just went through the roof. The real question is whether Katrina and Rita will have a lasting effect and strengthen the market for a time -- potentially in all lines of business, not just property -- or whether this is a short-term blip in what has proved to be a pretty resolute soft market.

Results for the quarter remained strong despite extraordinary challenges we faced with Hurricane Katrina.

Repair and assessment operations are going on as we speak and the hurricane season is just around the corner now. Resources are already stretched to the limit.

Republican leaders are shamelessly exploiting the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and the disruption it caused to our energy supplies to promote their long-sought radical energy policy ... (and) devastate vast amounts of America's most prized environmental possessions,

Reports of a hurricane are unfounded. (Said before the biggest hurricane to hit Britain for decades)

Regardless of whether a major hurricane makes landfall this year, it is inevitable that we will see hurricane-spawned destruction in coming years on a scale many, many times greater than we have in the past.

(Regarding his prayers to keep Hurricane Gloria away from Virginia Beach) It was 'extremely important because I felt that if I couldn't move a hurricane, I could hardly move a nation

Refiners don't want to get caught out in the next six months, with the hurricane season, Iran, etcetera. Where you'd normally expect at these high prices refiners trying to cut down on stocks, I think they're saying there's big money to be made if you've still got inventory when the hurricanes hit.

Recent hurricane damage in the U.S. has impacted natural gas more than any other energy market.

President Bush has committed a lot of federal reserves and manpower to the hurricane relief and the Forest Service is set up for emergency response. We have the expertise and availability to go to these kinds of disasters.

Part of the work involved with every hurricane is to lock the place down and make it as secure as possible, and that takes time to occur.

Paying for hurricane relief on the backs of the poor is not going to be a winning issue for Republicans. It's like they wake up every day determined to reinforce their own negative stereotypes.

Our original application included projections we made during the summer of 2005. Economic effects of Hurricane Katrina and the ever-increasing cost of fuel has made construction materials more expensive than we originally planned. We amended our original application to help balance the effect of those costs.

Our normal average is 104 sales a month, and we're going to probably end up September with 165, ... And 37 percent of our sales are coming from areas affected by Hurricane Katrina.

Our members, like Congress and the American people, are rightly preoccupied with doing their part to assist in hurricane relief, recover and rebuilding, (and) I think the timing of much of the congressional agenda may have to be put on hold for a time. But as soon as Congress returns to its other legislative priorities, we would expect work to continue on Social Security reform.

Our nation has an awful lot to learn from what happened after Hurricane Katrina. This is just one small way of helping to make that happen.

People have been looking for companies to say we've weathered the storm -- no pun intended -- whether it's the hurricane stuff or the macro things,

People need to be securing property and putting up their hurricane shutters to safeguard their homes.

Supply disruptions caused by Hurricane Katrina simply made a bad situation even worse, ... Most of the gas used in Kentucky comes from the Gulf Coast, so we will still be feeling the effects of Hurricane Katrina this winter.

State of Illinois employees responded in overwhelming numbers to our call for help, and our volunteers set a tremendously inspiring example by working in rough conditions to provide Hurricane Katrina's victims access to the services they need to rebuild their lives,

Some of these are hard steps to take, ... Hurricane Katrina has reminded us that we cannot escape these decisions.

Someone in the church, who chooses to remain anonymous, contacted me because they have a trucking company and wanted to take a trailer full of stuff to hurricane victims on the Gulf.

Thankfully, Hurricane Isabel as a Category 2 storm did not approach the level of damage of Hurricane Floyd, which hit the same general area in 1999.

Texas voluntarily accepted and placed students from states damaged by Hurricane Katrina, meeting an enormous challenge. And now the federal government is beginning to live up to its end of the bargain.

My thoughts and prayers are with all of the victims of Hurricane Katrina. All Americans have an obligation to help these people rebuild their lives. I know the Dallas Cowboys have enjoyed a very strong, long-standing relationship with The Salvation Army, and as a member of the Cowboys' family I wanted to join in that support.

My New Orleans community is in tremendous need and I truly appreciate the support of the Storm family during this challenging time for us. I thank the Sonics & Storm organization for arranging this donation drive and for their compassion for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

My mom and dad were running away from Hurricane Donna in Florida and came up here and fell in love with it. Everybody told my dad he was nuts for buying that stuff in the middle of nowhere.

My purpose in temporarily suspending fuel tax collection is to relieve some of the financial burden placed on Georgians by disruptions of our fuel supply resulting from the effects of Hurricane Katrina,

Looking forward, we have Katrina and the price of oil to worry about. I think the odds are still against it, but Hurricane Katrina could prove to be the exogenous shock that we've feared could dramatically slow or even derail the expansion.

Look for fire activity in Southeast Texas to pick up as fuels are approaching critical fuel dryness. A combination of cured grass fuels and dry Hurricane Rita debris is a situation we have not yet experienced. It is a situation that we have not been looking forward to.

Markets are rapidly abandoning the forecast for the Fed to increase rates to 4 percent by year-end, and are instead pricing in 3.75 percent. People are worrying lofty oil prices and Hurricane Katrina might hurt the U.S. economy when weaker data continue to come out.

Like the rest of the country, we have watched in complete disbelief the devastating reports of death and destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina,

Like so many businesses and families uprooted by Hurricane Katrina, the Hornets were forced to leave New Orleans while the city recovers from this tragedy,

I wonder what kind of shape the offices inside the Louisiana Superdome are in after Hurricane Katrina? The valuable things like jewelry, watches, rings, anything they thought they could pawn, all the food and drink, were gone.

It felt like an away game. The crowd obviously was cheering for their home team. But that's irrelevant. We lost a football game. . . . I felt personally like we fed them on a platter, and they ate. . . . Regardless of where we're living, regardless of Hurricane Katrina, we lost. No excuses.

I think only Rip Van Winkle would be able to ignore the wake-up call that Hurricane Katrina offers with regard to emergency preparedness,

It does not surprise me that we are seeing those job losses. Certainly what happened in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and with gas prices increasing last summer, we should be revising the figures downward a little bit.

I think if the rest of the hurricane season doesn't cause disruptions, and global supplies stay as they are, we should see prices pulling back into in the low to mid-$50's, without a recession. We could be in the high $40's if it's a warm winter.

I think it would be a good thing. This way you can know your paycheck will be the same from week to week. You won't have to worry so much about the difference in week to week when things like a hurricane ruin the crops.

Jim Sensenbrenner is once again deciding to abandon his fellow Americans in their time of need. This proposal would simply allow those citizens wiped out by Hurricane Katrina to file for bankruptcy under the old law, making it easier for these families to get back on their feet after this disaster. Apparently, Congressman Sensenbrenner doesn't think we should lend a helping hand to these families.

June and July we were looking at terrible crops, and then I think we benefited from hurricane rains and had a better crop than we thought, which dropped the prices.

June 1st is hurricane season. Private charities have got to do a better job and a faster job.

It is clear the consequences of the hurricane have become more widespread.

I think this is an awesome opportunity for us as athletes to help and give back to the hurricane victims. Money is just what they need to get back on their feet right now, and that is why we are here.

I'm so impressed by the way the people of Southern Colorado are responding to Hurricane Katrina. This is the largest natural disaster I've seen, but we're all standing shoulder to shoulder to help.

Most seasons we are going to get a hurricane hit the U.S. and probably more than half the time we will have a major hurricane hitting the U.S. as well.

We normally have a gala in October, but we had to cancel it for the first time ever since 1995 because we were so busy assisting the hurricane evacuees.

The 2006 hurricane season is expected to be twice as active as usual.

The abject poverty revealed by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans exists in every urban area of the United States. It's poverty so severe that it kills people.

The actual idea took about five seconds. It took me maybe an hour to think it through and understand the impact, but the actual idea just popped in my head, ... I was reading an article in the Wall Street Journal about the Hurricane Katrina Emergency Tax Act of 2005 ... I was interested to see what the federal government was doing to help the victims of the hurricanes.

The AAA-CPA is proud to join with the IRS and other professional organizations in providing the technical expertise and skills necessary to help people with disaster related tax issues. Our members are uniquely qualified to assist hurricane victims in advising them of their options and benefits with respect to our nation's tax laws and the special efforts the IRS is making to provide relief.

The approaching hurricane season reminds us of the utter devastation that Hurricane Ivan caused when it hit the Louisiana coast last year.

The American people want Congress to find sincere ways to pay for Hurricane Katrina, and we are pressuring ourselves to get this done.

The American Library Association (ALA) is saddened by the tragic loss of life and widespread damage to homes and communities by Hurricane Katrina, ... Libraries are an indispensable part of their communities, providing support and resources for everyone. Dozens of libraries in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama need our assistance so they, in turn, can meet the many needs of their communities.

That would be a good time for people to make donations to the Red Cross or United Way in memory of those who have lost their lives due to Hurricane Katrina or in honor of our local people who help us every day like our volunteers, firefighters, members of the armed forces, or other disaster assistance groups.

The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the busiest on record with a total of 27 named storms of which 15 became hurricanes, including seven major hurricanes.

That was a major part of it. The hurricane gave me more time in practice, gave me time to get better. The key was when I left receiver and started focusing mainly at quarterback. I started picking things up real well.

That was a decision that I made. The priority in this region had to continue to be recovery and rebuilding from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

I worry that we had a little hurricane fatigue, ... People boarded up for Ivan, evacuated and nothing happened. Then they boarded up for Dennis, evacuated and nothing happened. I think until very, very late, a lot of people thought, 'Ah, I'm not going to do that again.'

Most of our schools and other divisions have taken concrete steps to determine how they can support university students whose families have felt the brunt of Hurricane Katrina, ... Several are accommodating students from Gulf Coast colleges whose plans have been entirely disrupted this fall.

Most insurance companies and agents regularly contact homeowners to ensure that their insurance policy limits keep up with the value of their home so that there will be sufficient funds to rebuild after a hurricane or other catastrophe.

Mike Brown talked about the need to take seriously this hurricane ... It was difficult to know where on the Gulf Coast it was going to land.

Michigan is an economic hurricane center -- we've been hit but we aren't getting the attention of Hurricane Katrina victims. We need the same kind of attention New Orleans is getting for manufacturing.

We need to pray, of course, very strongly, that the hurricane force would diminish,

We have people calling wanting to know what to collect to send down there to the hurricane area in New Orleans.

You can climb a mountain or jump out of a plane but can never tame a hurricane or tornado - that's for sure. It's one of the last frontiers that no one will ever conquer.

We have to take our hats off to all of the victims down in New Orleans. Our hearts go out to them. We'd like to see each and every person who comes to give $10 for the hurricane relief.

We hope this program will further encourage the millions of soccer fans in this country to contribute to helping the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

We hope that this donation eases at least some of the deep suffering of all those affected by Hurricane Katrina, ... There are so many people who are hurting and in need. It's important that all of us do whatever we can to help.

We hope people agree that a little wait is okay in order to support the Hurricane Katrina recovery effort.

We hope and pray that hurricane Rita will not be a devastating storm but we've got to be ready for the worst.

We hope and pray that Hurricane Rita will not be a devastating storm. But we got to be ready for the worst.

We don't expect Dennis to become a hurricane again. Whether the storm makes landfall is questionable.

While energy prices and the impact from Hurricane Katrina are major concerns, the manufacturing sector has regained significant momentum,

We're dealing with the short-term supply shock now, although there are still further risks as the hurricane season continues.

We're dealing with a new era of higher hurricane activity and we realized we need to harden our system to deal with it here in Florida.