Robert Hunter Quotes

You know, we lose more homes every year to flooding than we do any other event in America.

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to.

A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability.

No two floods are alike.

Flooding is the most urgent issue that Houstonians are facing.

The Peckman River Basin has frequently flooded, and for more than a generation, the towns of Little Falls and Woodland Park have faced these challenges largely on their own.

Flooding is the costliest and most common cause of property damage, which is why federal flood insurance should be affordable and accessible to all.

However deep you dig a well it affords no refuge in the time of flood.

The National Flood Insurance Program is a valuable tool in addressing the losses incurred throughout this country due to floods. It assures that businesses and families have access to affordable flood insurance that would not be available on the open market.

Flooding damage is not customary for New York, especially downstate.

There's no such thing as a 100-year flood.

Second, there are two problems with respect to mobile homes in particular. One is we obviously don't want to put them in a flood plain, because if there's another flood, you're going to lose the mobile home.

The Hunting Bayou and Greens Bayou watersheds have experienced major flooding over the years and are crying out for investment to protect the hundreds of thousands of residents and businesses in those areas.

State ownership of flood control efforts will not completely eliminate the problem but can substantially reduce it.

You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans.

You cannot depend on a sandbag dike to save your life. You put it up to try to save your property.

FEMA says that it does not factor in previous losses into its decisions on applications to redraw the flood zones.

Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90 insurance companies sell and service flood service insurance. There are more than four million policies covering the total of $800 billion.

The levee system on the Mississippi River is now in a position to protect the Mississippi River Basin from flooding.

Texas has a pressing need for a single governmental body to provide overall flood control management for the watersheds affecting major population areas and guide state and local flood control policy.

While planting woodlands along rivers has been shown to work in small areas, it has been unclear whether it would be effective on a larger scale. But computer modelling indicates that restoring forests on floodplains could slow floodwaters and reduce the height of the flood downstream.

You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you.

Flying over New Orleans on our approach, I got it. There was no view of land without water - water in the great looming form of Lake Pontchartrain, water cutting through in tributaries, water flowing beside a long stretch of highway, water just - everywhere.

New flood maps in many states have raised the estimation of flood risks along rivers, streams and oceans, adding many properties to flood zones for the first time.