There’s no doubt afterwards we are going to have a serious retrospective as you do after any disaster and say, ‘Okay, what could be done differently to prevent this disaster?’

The fact you have girls asleep in their cabins when flood waters are rising, something went wrong there. We’ve got to fix that and have a better system of warnings to get kids out of harm’s way.

The role of FEMA is critically important.

I want to use the tragedy to drive a conversation about how to make sure warnings of a weather event reach people more quickly.

the climate has been changing from the dawn of time.

I will tell you I’ve been speaking to moms and dads, number one, of kids who are still missing and the agony of not knowing where your daughter is—there’s nothing like that.

To the best of my knowledge, there is zero evidence of anything related to anything like weather modification. The internet can be a strange place. People can come up with all sorts of crazy theories.

Look, there are a lot of people who are messed up.

We would evacuate those in the vulnerable areas, such as younger children in the cabins, we would evacuate them sooner and get them to higher ground if we could go back.

This is a time just to reach out, support each other, go volunteer at the Salvation Army.

Everyone would agree, in hindsight, if we could go back and do it again, we would evacuate.

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