Hurricane Season Quotes

New Orleans lives by the water and fights it, a sand castle set on a sponge nine feet below sea level, where people made music from heartache, named their drinks for hurricanes and joked that one day you'd be able to tour the city by gondola.

Puerto Rico, within the span of two weeks, received two Category 4-5 hurricanes. That has never happened anywhere. The devastation has been enormous.

But I think the bottom line right now is to take the constructive criticism and use that to build toward, as I say, the hurricane season that is 100 days away. And we don't have a lot of time to waste before we start to address that next set of challenges.

I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana.

HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the tornado and cyclone. The hurricane is still in popular use in the West Indies and is preferred by certain old- fashioned sea-captains.

I did live through Katrina and also Hurricane Rita, which hit Lake Charles. Interestingly, when Katrina hit, they evacuated and Lake Charles was one of the evacuation destinations. We opened up the civic center of the city to the evacuees and provided them free medical and psychiatric care there.

The only two good words that can be said for a hurricane are that it gives sufficient warning of its approach, and that it blows from one point of the compass at a time.

We don't get typhoons in December. They normally end by September. A typhoon happening in October is considered a late event.

I feel bad sometimes because I secretly hope New Orleans gets nailed again.

I grew up in Boca Raton, Florida - the worst place on earth.

Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.

Hurricane season routinely strikes the Caribbean harder than the U.S.

We are no strangers to hurricanes in South Carolina. These storms are part of life, especially in the Lowcountry and all along our coast.

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 live in Connecticut, but eventually I'd like to move back to New Orleans. I grew up there; the pace is a bit slower. Plus, I love crawfish and po'boys.

I'd love to live in New Orleans. I love the freedom of it - for good and for bad.

Two things Florida can teach the other 49 states: how to make a good margarita and how to deal with the aftermath of a hurricane.

I never take storms as seriously as I should, which is probably not the way I should be handling it. I think it's to do with growing up in New Orleans and having a hurricane, like, once a week.

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.

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

I grew up in the Philippines, and I don’t think there is a problem with the typhoon. It’s normal for us.

Florida's my home, and I've grown up in Florida for so long.