Lizz Winstead Quotes

Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all of us are at risk.

I've never seen a tornado and I've lived in Oklahoma City basically my whole life. It's not like we're infested with them on a continual basis. But you learn to live with the warnings. And you learn what to do if one is coming your way. And then you cross your fingers and make the best judgments you can.

People live in a place called Tornado Alley - and they're surprised when they get hit by a tornado. I'm sorry when they get hit by tornadoes, but when you live in Tornado Alley you can't really claim surprise.

So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped.

Ideal day is a hot and humid morning, tornadoes develop, no one gets hurt, and we get to collect data and chase the tornadoes.

When we went to school, we had the odd tornado drill.

n case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died - an entire town destroyed.

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

We're lucky, real lucky. Our friends lost their house. We just had some burning embers put holes in the screens.

Flooding damage is not customary for New York, especially downstate.

There could have been more planning in New Orleans, but you look at all the devastation that happened there - have we gotten to 3,000 deaths yet? For that magnitude of a disaster, that's not all that bad.

A disaster like a hurricane is like a football game. You are going to lose the first quarter. There is no way you will win that quarter. The question is how ugly you will lose that quarter. Then you go into the second quarter – the search and rescue.

After a disaster, processing claims quickly trumps everything.

There are disasters that happen - Hurricane Harvey came up, and you had people self-organizing through the community and getting in boats and driving around rescuing people coordinated ad hoc through this network. That's not a media function.

I'm a registered Republican, I only seem liberal because I believe that hurricanes are caused by high barometric pressure and not gay marriage.

When you have the worst disaster in American history, you've got to be attuned to expectations,.

It's cold out. It's even cold in Florida. So cold today that Katherine Harris put on a third layer of makeup.

I have little compassion for people in trailer parks who refuse to move after getting tornado warnings. How hard is it for them to relocate? Their houses have wheels.

Disaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of being on the record makes it appear continuous and ubiquitous whereas it is more likely to have been sporadic both in time and place.

Sarah Palin finally heard what happened in Japan and she's demanding that we invade 'Tsunami.'

Public calamity is a mighty leveller.

You know the difference between a tornado and divorce in the south? Nothing! Someone is losing a trailer.

What were they thinking? 'It's an alien apocalypse! Quick, grab the beer!

Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else.

My wife said I look like a Latin American dictator. I said, 'That's what I am'