If you take the system we are trying to reconstruct and patch together, literally band-aid back together, and you stretch it too soon, then it will break again.

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We've seen the Gulf of Mexico relocate. The force of nature is something to behold.

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We really don't want to put ourselves in competition with Katrina. I don't think that's appropriate at all. At the same time, we don't want to be overlooked. We just want to make sure our story doesn't get lost.

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We don't want anyone to lose sight of the things that have happened to coastal Louisiana because of Rita.

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