"Paul Bailey" is a British writer and critic, author of several novels as well as biographies of Cynthia Payne and Quentin Crisp.

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We followed every standard protocol for hurricanes, but the flooding was just astronomical. Twenty to 50 percent of the population (of New Orleans) had not evacuated. That's going to take a while to ramp up the rescue operations and support operations. It just doesn't happen in the blink of an eye.

We're not going to leave dispatch short.

[But, he said, placing blame] is not going to do any good, it's not going to bring anybody back, ... I'd rather sit down and talk about what went right, what went wrong and what we can learn from this.

I'm shocked at the low turnout. I thought we had people in this city that needed jobs.

I thought, 'How long can they survive in there?' .

Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather than by his agent or promoter.

If these standards are tightened, there will be more cities around the country that will be using this more expensive reformulated gasoline. Also, it may require the reformulation of diesel also.

The problem was there was a small area to launch boats and we didn't have the assets there to support the task forces and deploy them. And it would've overloaded the system, which compounded the problem.

It was challenging, to say the least.