Bill Clinton: “Yes, I might say in the Middle West, there has already been another flood in one of those areas where hundreds of people…”

“Yes, I might say in the Middle West, there has already been another flood in one of those areas where hundreds of people were saved from losing their homes a second time, but there are other ways to mitigate; you don't have to--it's just that--that was the Mississippi and the other big rivers there, and they were way down in the flood plain, and there was no practical way for them to do something like the people did on the lefthand side of Gun Club Road when I was walking down there. So they decided that they wanted to do that, and they saved it. There are other less drastic mitigation strategies that you can follow here, and you need to just decide whether--how you want to do with the dike or your flood wall or whatever you want to do here, and come up with a plan through the State, and you will be eligible for funds to try to implement it. There was a question back there? [A participant asked if the Corps of Engineers could take some action with regard to 2 or 3 miles of identifiable problem dikes.]”