Kurt Pickering Quotes (10 Quotes)

This is a high fatality count. The extent of the damage and the severity will probably not be very clear until we get the sun in the morning.

If you prayed for a white Christmas, you should have been more specific.

When we look at county maps, we have four sightings in 12 counties in a short enough period of time that it is highly doubtful it was all one twister. We're getting damage reports from 28 different counties.

Last night (Monday) we were asked if we could take more. We told them we could take 3,000 from Texas.

I don't look for any major improvement until the day after Christmas. The next time temperatures will be above freezing will be Saturday.

The best I can figure out, this is the most loss of life we've had in a single weather event in one day.

The decision was made by the director of operations. I think it was a pretty good catch.

Unfortunately when Mother Nature gets mean, there's nothing that can be done.

I don't want to wish this on Mississippi, but it would be good if it left Tennessee alone this time.

Downtown Clarksville no doubt looks like the proverbial war zone.