Political Quotes

“recently, there was flooding in Texas. The tragedy there is unspeakable--135 lives claimed. And you can't listen to the story of the young campers being swept away literally by the flood waters without getting emotional--26 feet of water rising in just 45 minutes. And so, for many Americans, that is hard to imagine--but for not as many as you might expect. According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, nearly every parish and county in the United States has experienced flooding in the last few decades--not every State, every parish and county. No place in our country is untouched by flooding. For example, not in New York City. This is New York City--New York City, as we used to say down South. It saw its second wettest hour in history this month as rain caused what the New York Post headline described as ``terrifying, freak flash flooding.'' Not New Mexico, on the bottom of this. New Mexico, what you think of as being in the desert, saw deadly flooding this month despite its dry climate. We in Louisiana, as well as anybody, know that there is a tragedy which can result not just with the flooding but can result after the flooding, a tragedy which people cannot afford to live in their homes no matter what they do to prevent future flooding because of unaffordable flood insurance rates. I am all about preventing the first tragedy. How do we stop the initial episode of flooding?”