Craig Colten Quotes (7 Quotes)

The water especially devastated the Ninth Ward, among the city's poorest and lowest lying areas. Out West, there is a saying that water flows to money, ... But in New Orleans, water flows away from money. Those with resources who control where the drainage goes have always chosen to live on the high ground. So the people in the low areas were hardest hit.

We shouldn't talk about bulldozing the Lower 9th Ward. There are some homes that are still in pretty darn good shape,

Louisiana has sacrificed its coastline so those people in North Dakota can have fuel oil, so they can drive their vehicles.

The Cajuns uprooted from Canada and moved as a group to Louisiana. Vietnamese communities have reassembled after moving much farther. There is precedent for doing this,

We need to use some of these lower areas as flood retention areas, as places to collect the hazards.

The evacuation plan was really based on people driving out, ... They didn't have buses. They didn't have trains.

The whole thing takes a long, long time.