It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?
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It's a great honor. It shows how much hard work and dedication the girls have put in since Hurricane Katrina.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.
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To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.
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Haiti is the most vulnerable society in the region and Cuba is one of the best prepared, if not the best prepared for natural disasters. The same hurricane which would take zero lives in Cuba would kill massively in Haiti.
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Thou born to match the gale, (thou art all wings,) To cope with heaven and earth and sea and hurricane,
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The track record of this administration on homeland security, its inadequate funding, its bureaucratic dysfunction at the Department of Homeland Security, as evidenced most tragically in [hurricane] Katrina but in many other similar instÃ?Âances over the past four and a half years, does not create an atmosphere of confidence.
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That's the whole thing with the hog. It's you and 80 wild horses under your butt, just sitting on 10 square inches where the rubber meets the road. That hurricane gale wind whipping you in the face, leaning into a curve you can feel that gravity wanting to suck you down into it and what do you do Give it a little more gas. Pure centrifugal force. You can see yourself hurtling ass end over teakettle into oblivion.
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The ability to evacuate is severely limited in south Florida, ... In other parts of the country, you can go east, north or south to get away from a hurricane. In south Florida, you can only go north.
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Just about everywhere we go a hurricane hits. You just can't believe it. What the hell is going on? It's like a black cloud. We may not be able to play in Baton Rouge if it hits like that.
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What did the hurricane say to the coconut tree? Hold on to your nuts, this is no ordinary blow job!
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This is probably the worst catastrophe, or set of catastrophes certainly that I'm aware of in the history of the country. It was a devastating hurricane followed by a devastating flood,
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But I think the bottom line right now is to take the constructive criticism and use that to build toward, as I say, the hurricane season that is 100 days away. And we don't have a lot of time to waste before we start to address that next set of challenges.
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Hurricane Katrina has set off a revolt in the Republican constituency, so I believe Bush will need to find spending restraints and the country will focus on that in 2006 and 2008,
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I think that that predication unhappily turned out to be correct and one of the things I said was we're racing the clock. Unfortunately, the hurricane beat us,
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Women are like a hurricane, they come in wet and wild, but when they leave, they take your house, car, and all your personal belongings.
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a level of optimism that was not dented as much as one would have expected by Hurricane Katrina.
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Well, I'm not excusing the fact that planning and preparedness was not where it should be. We've known for 20 years about this hurricane, this possibility of this kind of hurricane.
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During the hurricane season, when we did open last year, we were giving out 5,000 to 10,000 sand bags a day.
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Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.
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[Bush's critics say his response to the hurricane proves that he's not a leader.] Oblivious, in denial, dangerous, ... blame game.
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