Weather Event Quotes

Nathaniel Rich wrote 'Odds Against Tomorrow' well before Hurricane Sandy and its surge crashed onto the isle of Manhattan, well before the streets were flooded and the subways drowned, only the Goldman Sachs building sparkling above the darkened avenues.

Katrina did much more damage than anything the terrorists could ever put together.

Went to the paper shop - it had blown away.

The Northeast is being hit with a major snowstorm. Forecasters said they've haven't seen a whiteout like this since last week's Oscar nominations.

Hurricane Sandy was one of the most vicious storm systems to hit the New York City area in nearly two centuries.

Even the president's own Science and Technology Office head Mister Holdren says no one single weather event is due specifically to climate change.

For New Yorkers, late October 2012 was a moment when something fundamental altered. If there were any climate change deniers in the five boroughs before Hurricane Sandy, I don't think there were too many left afterward.

You might be a redneck if...you've been on TV more than times describing the sound of a tornado.

We've had a history of hurricanes, but none of them of the magnitude that we're seeing Irma turn out to be.

Damn where my roof just go? Top slipped off like Janet at the Super Bowl.

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.

'Dust Devil,' I've never really seen with an American audience, so I'm looking forward to that experience.

We sat here during Irene in '99 with the back door open. We drank and watched all the stuff fly by.

I was in middle school when Hurricane Hugo hit in 1989. I still remember the sounds from that night and the challenges of recovering.

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.

Hurricanes are dangerous things, and they're no fun to go through. And if you come out of it in one piece and your house comes out of in one piece, it's no fun living with no electricity for a day or a week, a month, whatever it is. And I speak, unfortunately, from personal experience on that matter.

I'm so glad we had that storm last week.

And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.

The preparations are what they are. We're here. The storm is coming. We are as best prepared as we can be as the eye of the storm approaches.

The smallest snowstorm on record took place an hour ago in my back yard. It was approximately two flakes. I waited for more to fall, but that was it. The entire storm was two flakes.

The wind at Candlestick tonight is blowing with great propensity.