'The kids get ready for school like they always do, and you throw them in the boat.' On dealing with widespread flooding, 1997.
Quotes about flooding (16 Quotes)
This is a comprehensive plan to accomplish both crucial goals simultaneously protect New Orleans from future flooding, and reconstruct the coast to help in that job. They go hand-in-hand. You can't do one and not the other. Just as importantly, we have to start now. We're not saying we can get all this done tomorrow, but we are saying we have to start tomorrow. We can't wait the five years it can take for the Corps (of Engineers) to do a cost-benefit analysis. We told them for years what a bargain this would be. Now I think they can see our plans were pretty darn cost-effective compared to what the costs are now.
A terror attack in New Orleans . . . would have yielded exactly the same results. You wouldn't have had the wind, but you would have had the flooding, and you would have had the loss of life.
His mind started racing. His memories of all the sexual abuse he had incurred over his entire life came flooding back over him. He believed that what he was doing was right, that he had been ordained to do this.
We are talking about predictable recurring flooding.
It has been popular to threaten "small islands and low-lying coasts" with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the most utilised target. We have undertaken a careful analysis of actual sea level changes in the Maldives. No rise has been recorded either in the present or the past centuries.
People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.
I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I start flooding colour and making marks, I don't know, it's improvisation isn't it?
Some investors are relieved that Suzuki shares won't be flooding the market. The agreement also cleared some uncertainty about Suzuki's relationship with GM.
You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
China is crippling our manufacturing economy and eliminating our jobs by illegally flooding our markets.
Steelhead and other native fish have had thousands of years to adapt to flooding. Not only can they survive, floods usually improve the habitat by scouring out river bottoms, creating new pools and cleaning out the silt.
I was in the car on my way to London, and Radio 2 was doing the Bee Gees story. They started playing the demos we'd made, then I heard Maurice talking. Suddenly that feeling of helplessness and non-acceptance came flooding back. I don't think you can ever come to terms with something like this. But you can learn to live with it.
the geysers flooding from deep in its vault:
in my mouth I felt the taste of fire again,
of blood and carnations, of rock and scald.
I hear a lot of people say buyouts are not the answer to the flooding problem and it's not, but it's the only thing we can get our hands on now, ... Whether their homes cost 30,000 or 300,000 this should be made available to them.
That was for instance the case in Mocambique a couple of years ago, during the flooding catastrophe. Instead of co-ordinating assistance properly, to much time and resources was spent on fighting about the same helicopters and local guides.