Eleanor Norton actually said...

"This is no longer we are--``This is what is going to happen.'' It is happening."

"The problem is that these were unprecedented disasters."

"It is--but it is a very rare example of the Congress being able to fund before the fact."

"Are you engaged in that kind of really foresighted advice to--as part of mitigation that apparently the whole vision of what you did before is no longer viable, in light of these unprecedented storms ..."