Andrew Cuomo Quotes

Flooding is the costliest and most common cause of property damage, which is why federal flood insurance should be affordable and accessible to all.

Reader, persons who have never witnessed a hurricane, such as not unfrequently desolates the sultry climates of the south, can scarcely form an idea of their terrific grandeur. One would think that, not content with laying waste all on land, it must needs sweep the waters of the shallows quite dry to quench its thirst.

You know, we lose more homes every year to flooding than we do any other event in America.

Flooding is the most urgent issue that Houstonians are facing.

In New York, FEMA granted the Mamaroneck Beach & Yacht Club's request to be remapped from the high-risk flood zone in August 2012 - just two months before the club was damaged and its outbuildings destroyed by Hurricane Sandy, which stacked up yachts at its docks like pick-up sticks.

Reports of a hurricane are unfounded.

Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.

I'd always thought hurricanes were romantic, with pretty feminine names like Celestine.

No two floods are alike.

We have seen levee breaks and flooding in the wake of storms, some of which have caused the loss of life, and USDA is ready to assist in any way we can.

I sympathize with the victims of Hurricane Sandy and believe that those who purchased flood insurance should have their claims paid.

South Floridians, we can relate to storms where you just brace and hold your breath and even when you're holding your breath you know the worst is coming.

Being in the bands of a hurricane, it's not like a tornado that's going to pass very quickly. It's the most serious thing that you will ever experience next to, I'm sure, an earthquake.

However deep you dig a well it affords no refuge in the time of flood.

Hurricane Irene ... the storm was huge news. In fact, the Weather Channel reported something they haven't seen in years. Viewers.

Today, the rich bottom land of the Misssissippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help.

You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans.

I've been through quite a few hurricanes. I worked in North Carolina, where there's a housing development whose name was Landfall.

You can see how an increase in the water level would wipe out hundreds of thousands of people's homes.

Everything that I have professionally, and so much of what I have personally, is because of this great, fair city, and to see it being drowned like this is almost unbearable.

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.

Being in a floodplain is like sitting down in a bathtub.

As hurricanes Katrina and Rita raged through the southeastern United States last summer, much of America's energy infrastructure based in the Gulf of Mexico was damaged or destroyed causing gas prices to soar.

What happened to Haiti is a threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations, you know, because of global warming, because of climate change and all this.

As a survivor of Hurricane Katrina, I understood all too well the despair my colleagues - Republican and Democrat alike - were feeling as Hurricane Sandy ravaged their communities.