Oliver Thomas: “It's very important to deal with this now.”

You know, right now Senator Vitter and Landrieu and our local congress people are trying, but we're not getting the support we need from the rest of Congress.

We owe it to them and other families to make sure they are safe, that their streets are clean and that their tax dollars mean something.

How does that help with 10 or 12 feet of water? The levees, we pray, won't break this time.

Given what we've been through, if six months from now we don't see some progress in this community, everyone who has anything to do with it ought not be around.