Terry Ebbert
Terry Ebbert
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Three inches of rainfall would cause us to have flooding and we would lose ground. You can expect there to be a mandatory evacuation anytime we encounter a large rainfall.
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We will reassess how we have done in reopening so far and the status of our water, sewerage, electricity and hospitals.
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The people arriving on this side of the building are expected to fend for themselves. We have some water.
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Our goal is to ensure that we create an environment where it makes more sense to leave rather than stay.
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Our goal is to create an environment for all of the individuals to leave in the face of a storm rather than stay.
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Today we are attempting with the federal government's assistance to gain control of all law enforcement agencies that have been provided.
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The system didn't break down. The system just wasn't designed to handle something so catastrophic.
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Beginning Saturday, we will be on the path of bringing New Orleans back. We feel it's vitally important for this city to stay alive, for commerce to start moving in the right direction.
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That's why these people are going to be very uncomfortable.
city commerce moving start stay vitally
It is vitally important for this city to stay alive, to start moving commerce in the right direction. But we have to do it in a progressive manner.
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It's a very slow rise, and it will remain so until we plug that breach. I think we can get it stabilized in a few hours.
people trailers
There may be instances where we have to evacuate people from trailers when we're not evacuating the city.
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They keep coming out of the woodwork. The human suffering I've seen here is greater than anything I've ever been exposed to.
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This is a national emergency. This is a national disgrace.