I have to say, in honesty, patience will be required for everybody, ... Under the best circumstances, even in the best planning, you still confront the physical reality of a destructive storm.
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The tenor of his discussions on Monday . . . was, this was bad, but it could have been worse, ... There was not a report to me until the following morning that there was a significant breach of the 17th Street levee.
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I think that the lesson of this hurricane, which we will clearly look at as we go over an after-action evaluation, is going to be very valuable in moving forward. I mean, this was an ultra-catastrophe, but we have to be prepared even for ultra-catastrophes, even things that happen once in a lifetime and once in a generation. So, yes, we will be studying that.
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Obviously, people feel strongly about their home communities and they tend to see their own risks to the exclusion of others. Our job is to balance.
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