Flood Resilience Quotes

Rising seas create a higher baseline for future storm surges. The New York City Panel on Climate Change has projected that coastal waters may rise by two feet by 2050 and four feet by the end of the century.

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

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.

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.

This Time, Let's Build a New Venice and Not Another New Orleans

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

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

Being in a floodplain is like sitting down in a bathtub.

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

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.

What need the bridge much broader than the flood?

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

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.

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

New Orleans has to learn to live with water rather than in fear of water, and we need a master plan that shows us how to do this. It's so critical that we send a signal to everyone in the country that we're serious about rebuilding New Orleans.

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.