Russel Honore 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.

State ownership of flood control efforts will not completely eliminate the problem but can substantially reduce it.

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

The entire federal budget for landslide research is $3.5 million a year - far less than the property value lost on a single day when 17 mansions slid down a hill in 2005 in Laguna Beach, Calif.

The answer to New Orleans's levee woes is painfully obvious: money and willpower.

You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you.

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

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to.

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

Second, there are two problems with respect to mobile homes in particular. One is we obviously don't want to put them in a flood plain, because if there's another flood, you're going to lose the mobile home.

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

The levee system on the Mississippi River is now in a position to protect the Mississippi River Basin from flooding.

Houston's been getting flooded for a very long time. We always have to prepare for disasters and we have to do this in a very bipartisan way.

The Peckman River Basin has frequently flooded, and for more than a generation, the towns of Little Falls and Woodland Park have faced these challenges largely on their own.

It is difficult to conduct flood mitigation at the federal level because of the bureaucracy and inconsistent funding. Texans are better able to lead this effort at the state level rather than rely on the federal government.

Green roofs, roadside plantings, porous pavement, and sidewalk gardens have been proven to reduce flooding. They absorb rainwater before it swamps the streets and sewage systems.

And one of the things I want to say, Wolf, is we're 100 days from hurricane season, and we've got to start focusing on what we're going to do to make ourselves ready for the next hurricane.

Homeowners and business owners across the country agreed to pay premiums, communities agreed to adopt building codes to mitigate flood dangers, and the Federal Government agreed to provide insurance coverage to policyholders after a disaster.

Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90 insurance companies sell and service flood service insurance. There are more than four million policies covering the total of $800 billion.

I grew up in the Northeast; I've seen hurricanes before and trees down and cars destroyed.

The immediate, highest priority need, in my humble opinion, is that we build quickly the interim structures that can channel water away from population and businesses in the New Orleans area.

We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.

City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur.

So use your own property as not to injure that of another.