The state as a whole was doing pretty well before Katrina.
Phil Pepper
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If it needed emphasis, underline and exclamation point, Katrina did that.
Gerald Grinstein
Both Hurricane Katrina and the war in Iraq have had an impact on our funding.
Michael Lapina
It is increasingly clear that global warming makes [hurricanes] more severe and destructive. Katrina is the shape of things to come.
Joseph Romm
We went down there as they were winding down from Hurricane Katrina, and the day we got there, they were gearing right back up for Rita. That place was really hopping.
John Luther
This disaster did not end the day Katrina made landfall.
Michael Brown
Katrina is going to muck things up; it's just a question to what degree.
Mark Zandi
We applaud Tyson for their compassion towards so many who have suffered through the Hurricane Katrina disaster.
Marc Morial
A lot of our stuff is already in place from Katrina. Really, the only thing we've actually scaled down is the ice, water and MRE distribution.
Larry Moore
Rita won't have anywhere near the impact of Katrina.
Alan Nevin
It's potentially a bigger threat than Katrina because there is more refining capacity in the Houston area. This is a double whammy for the industry it's an amazing thing to contemplate.
Bob Slaughter
Things are better than they ever have been, ... At least they were before Katrina.
Carol Brown
They'll get full Katrina experience.
Randy Ponder
Housing authorities have never been more broke. Funds for public housing were not keeping pace with demand, even before Katrina.
Linda Couch
I never believed that it was responsible to create this new entitlement, but it's even more irresponsible now, given that Hurricane Katrina has created new spending priorities for the federal government.
Jeff Flake
The comparisons to Katrina are numerous and just eerie.
Simon Winchester
An earthquake will be our Katrina, and this event will help community members learn the hazards and how to best prepare their family for earthquakes and other disasters.
Carrie Davis
Almost all of the Katrina bump has gone away.
James Hamilton
If there can be any good that comes out of Katrina, maybe we can get rid of the phrase 'minimal hurricane,' .
Ben Nelson
With the death of Chief Justice Rehnquist and the tragedy of Katrina that view is even more salient now.
Margie Mchugh
Our junior and senior girls are excited. Some families do have problems with financing after Hurricane Katrina, but the big problem is you can't find prom dresses.
Kelly Long
I am hopeful, but I think it's dicey. Based on Katrina, my confidence is low.
Matthew Park
That's important because if you shut them down according to a plan, then you can bring them back faster than if you do an emergency shut down. We are learning a little bit from Katrina. We are more prepared.
Dan Pickering
It's been all Katrina all the time, and now it's Rita, too. Except for the Supreme Court, hurricane recovery is what Congress will be up to, so we have no choice but to adapt.
J. Steven Hart
There was no sign of life from the devastation left by Katrina.
Pete Johnson
Katrina blew that out of the water. There is no longer any talk of a new stadium.
Tim Coulon
This was a big reminder of how tight the system is. And what Katrina did is make the system even tighter going forward.
Roger Diwan
It's hard to say where our homicide rate went last year. Without the Katrina factor it would have been down.
Vance Mitchell
We will not stand by and let our consumers be exploited by profiteers looking to cash in on Hurricane Katrina.
Richard Codey
We have seen spikes in giving based off of those things (television telethons for Katrina families).
Melissa Temme
The day after (Hurricane Katrina) hit, we were talking about doing something.
Pam Howarth
We are headed for a Katrina-induced soft patch, but I would not interpret this as the early warning of a recession.
Nariman Behravesh
I don't really think Katrina had much effect.
Karlyn Bowman
Steel's been hard to get after (hurricanes) Katrina and Rita. They really delayed our substation projects.
Rex Garrett
It will send a very good message about how we feel about the residents who were here before Katrina.
Tanya Harris
This is our Katrina dividend.
Reed Kroloff
Basically, I see things the same way as he does, but we see the aftermath of Katrina putting a bigger dent in the economy for a longer period of time than he does.
Dr. Doug Moore
Katrina damage remains a crimp on gas supplies, but we've had a major comeback by the oil industry since she hit.
Trilby Lundberg
The devastation on the gulf coast caused by Hurricane Katrina is something that has moved us all, and has made me feel blessed more than ever.
Phil Vassar
No such outbreak occurred because of Hurricane Katrina.
Dr. Raoult Ratard
After . . . Katrina, I just cannot fathom staying.
Ldyyan Jean Jocque
It seems FPL hasn't finished the job from Katrina and now we get this one.
Brian King
We get lazy and complacent and just don't want to do it because it's not our priority. Well, look at Katrina.
John Hernandez
Many of the fourth graders did their projects on Louisiana and Hurricane Katrina.
Johnnie W. Scott
One of the doctors was in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit.
Jenni Faulkner
They did it so that during events like Hurricane Katrina, the would not have bodies floating.
Rob Florence
The gap in health between white and black Americans has been estimated to cause 84,000 excess deaths in a year ... a virtual Katrina every week.
David Atkins
Even before Katrina we felt the market was on edge, a very tight market, with very little spare (refining) capacity anywhere along the chain.
Doug Macintyre
It's the combination of massive tax cuts combined with massive spending on Iraq and Katrina when we already weren't able to pay our bills.
Kent Conrad
As the entire nation responds to those devastated by Hurricane Katrina, the community and technical colleges of Alabama will extend our help to students whose education has been dramatically interrupted..
Roy Johnson
The Fed may need to prove its inflation-fighting credentials because expectations could be shifting a bit. The case for continued rate hikes has become, if anything, more compelling since Katrina.
Steve Stanley
In reaction to Katrina, we wanted to be extremely proactive.
Dave Byron
It was hard enough being here when everyone was going through Katrina. Now, it's my parents in danger. I just hope everyone keeps the city of Houston in their thoughts. It's definitely a hard blow.
Robin Wagner
There is no better way to allow your clothes to keep on giving you pleasure than to share them with someone else. The families that were affected by Hurricane Katrina need our help.
Star Jones
Katrina strengthens the House's hand that we need to stick to this budget.
John Scofield
For their vanguard work in the Millions More Movement and Hurricane Katrina.
Black Panther
The tragic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina continues to be an extraordinary challenge long after the daily front-page headlines have subsided.
Tom Staggs
We're now in wait-and-see mode, ... There was a pull-back after Katrina went through, but early indicators are certainly that some damage has been done.
Gerard Burg
It looks like it's going to impact a little bit further north than Katrina did.
Jennifer Pralgo
The wider impact of Hurricane Katrina on the national economy is now becoming evident and none of it is pretty.
Paul Ashworth
The jobs numbers are going to be meaningless for the next few months. You'll have Katrina as a big asterisk, ... So the Fed will be flying blind a little bit.
Brian Stine
It's almost like, what Katrina didn't get, this one's going to.
T. Boone Pickens
[It was] the hardest hit by Katrina. [It was] 17 feet underwater during the storm. We were assigned to a house, and we cleaned everything out?It was unbelievable; everything was damaged.
Stephen Frapart
The DRA is investing infrastructure and transportation because many towns were impacted by Katrina.
Pete Johnson
We believe that consumer spending is going to bear the brunt of higher energy prices that we have seen leading up to and immediately following Hurricane Katrina as discretionary spending is curtailed.
Joshua Shapiro
Katrina is to the domestic budget what Sputnik was to the space program.
Stan Collender
Katrina could reach category-one hurricane strength before the center reaches the southeastern coast of Florida.
Stacy Stewart
I think a lot of the food drives have been diverted to the Katrina fund. We've had to rely on buying a lot of food for the food pantry.
Dena Corey
We are well aware of what happened in Louisiana and Mississippi with Hurricane Katrina.
Rick Gentry
Even Hurricane Katrina had better weather.
Kevin Kennedy
We are continuing our intense scrutiny of conduct in the petroleum industry in the aftermath of Katrina.
John Seesel
They have taken advantage of the Hurricane Katrina situation to jack up those profits.
Maurice Hinchey
Of the individuals who have come from Katrina, a lot of them have needed more than just a clean bed and a good meal.
Katie Ford
Eat a Prime Rib Dinner here to help Feed The Children who are victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Ron Oliver
Any storm going through the Gulf is going to slow the pace of the recovery from Katrina.
Doug Leggate
The juxtaposition of the mission to Iraq and the response to Katrina really demonstrates the new and changing character of the National Guard.
Daniel Goure
A disaster like this Katrina brings out the best in people, but unfortunately, it also brings out the worst in people, too.
Devorah Goldburg
These are all items we're going to seriously consider, ... But when we only have a finite amount of available funds, I want to take a look at our immediate costs from Hurricane Katrina.
David Dewhurst
Now I never dream of leaving here. Hurricane Katrina wasn't a good thing, but maybe it was God's way of putting us in a better place.
Charliene Guidry
She (Nicholas) brings a lot to the team. I'm glad to have her out and she works well with Katrina and gives us a lot of balance.
Sarah Patrick
Katrina, tsunami, cost of living now.
Bill Hentzler
Katrina should be enough to wake people up.
Mary Fetchet
To see the damage that I saw when I covered Katrina will stay with me forever.
Rita Cosby
We don't want a repeat of Katrina.
Jeanne Mahoney
The emotional effects after Hurricane Katrina had started to dissipate. Then along came Rita.
Jon Anderson
Katrina is progressively getting better, she is shooting the ball well. She is getting more mobile as the season goes on.
Jack Campbell
We're basically guessing how the BLS adjusts for Katrina, which is an even bigger stretch than we normally have to do.
Gina Martin
The place was totally corrupt. Katrina washed it away. For some people, Katrina gave them a new start.
Michelle Perique
I think it is a critical number. It's one of the first readings we get on consumer confidence post-Katrina.
Gina Martin
Katrina is new to the program this year, and I was very impressed with how well she ran in her first meet.
Adam Topper
We lost sand in both Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Wilma.
Gary Mcalpin
Plus, ... you have Katrina now, too.
Pat Gallagher
I think people will never forget Katrina who experienced it. It will always be remembered.
Terry Steed
They've been actively involved in the devastation relief for Katrina.
Bill Brave
This has hit the school really hard. We have three Katrina disasters here in our school.
Jane Porter
The opportunity to maximize limited dollars through collaboration with the VA is immense, bold, and compelling in our post-Katrina environment.
Donald R. Smithburg
We saw a lot of that immediately following Katrina. I hope we stopped most of it, but I'm sure there are complaints we don't hear about.
Grant Hedgepeth
I feel even deeper for them, hurt even deeper for them, because these were the communities and counties that first opened their hearts and homes to Hurricane Katrina victims, ... And now they need our help.
Kevin Brady
We are already at about $50 billion of insured losses from catastrophes in this country so far and that could be as high as $70 billion, depending on what Katrina does. Hurricane Wilma is a situation that is going to exacerbate what was already problematic for the insurance industry.
Robert Hartwig
One cannot deny that Katrina ironically may have had a positive effect on this index because of the big surge in orders.
Cary Leahey
In the meantime, we do have a shortage of petroleum in this country caused primarily by hurricane Katrina.
Mike Rounds
More and more people will be going into the Katrina-impacted area. Then, you'll see people go into the Rita-impacted area. This will go on for many, many months.
Christian Smith
Katrina showed America that race and class matters.
Charles Barron
There's a growing awareness that Katrina has changed not only the agenda but all the circumstances we find ourselves in.
Heather Wilson
It's a great honor. It shows how much hard work and dedication the girls have put in since Hurricane Katrina.
Russ Badeaux
This is something I never dreamed I would experience. You see Katrina. You see Rita. But you never think it can happen it to you.
Mary Anderson
It's Katrina, it's China, it's all going into the mix.
Paul Bradbury
Following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the cries for help were numerous. This money will go far in reaching the immediate needs of those impacted.
Ben Johnson (sales)
The special Katrina legislation allows you to deduct up to 100 percent of your adjusted gross income.
Marcus Owens
One out of every 71 homes in Ohio foreclosed in the year 2005 -- our own version of Hurricane Katrina.
Subodh Chandra
It's really dedicated to the missing children of the Katrina refugees and all missing children. For me, that's a heart-rending thing.
Charles Brooks
Katrina was a devastating hurricane, not a financial windfall for the shameless.
Richard Codey
How can the federal government feed its employees with catered meals and not feed the victims of Hurricane Katrina?
Colleen Cooke
Had Hurricane Katrina not come through here, the Rita storm would be really the event of the decade and the event that we're all talking about.
Gil Jamieson
As a place of some resources we had a responsibility to reach out to those who were affected by Hurricane Katrina.
Brian Mitchell
With Katrina, the fact that it came and left very quickly enabled us to get out of the gate very quickly.
Geisha Williams
The only thing we've been wondering is if it could be due to the magnitude of Katrina.
Chuck Cooper
There's a lot of uncertainty about whether Rita will cause as much damage to the oil infrastructure as Katrina did.
Sal Guatieri
I expect that Katrina will have very severe economic impacts because it will force consumers to increase expenditures on energy drastically.
Philip Verleger
I was shocked. It's one thing to see Katrina on the news. It's another to see her effect in person.
Travis Bockenstedt
I think it's time we thought about having Katrina bonds.
Hal Rogers
With (Katrina), it's almost like the sequel that doesn't live up to the original.
Gilbert Gottfried
I think this issue, Katrina and our government's response to it, should be looked at by an independent commission.
Richard Falkenrath
The Minnesota Air National Guard is ready and eager to assist with Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.
Tim Pawlenty
The looting was part of the ugliness of Katrina and Rita.
Skip Mcdonald
I do think it's Katrina fallout.
Glenn Reynolds
Right now we feel confident, but I'm sure the people dealing with Katrina felt there were going to be some changes there, and there's not. So who knows?
Dennis O'dell
Katrina adds an urgency.
Benet Wilson
It turned out we were all wrong, we had not adequately anticipated, ... The thing that changed this was not Katrina itself, the thing that was the catastrophic event was the failure of the levee.
Frances Townsend
After Hurricane Andrew (in 1992) the insurance industry was on its knees; after Katrina (in 2005), it was in the fetal position.
Jack Hardman
Hurricane Katrina was epic. It was off the charts. We understand that. By comparison, Rita was just a bad storm. But for those of us who live here, it was really, really bad.
Lee Holbert
Burying Katrina is the theme, getting some closure, just putting it to rest for a minute.
Michael Stanton
The amount of oil that can be produced each day can actually be insured. Katrina is forecast to make a more direct hit on those offshore platforms than Ivan.
Kyle Beatty
One man called us and said, 'I have a three-bedroom house I'm working on, and you can use it. He is letting us use his home for Katrina evacuees.
Sharon Hess
[The bill] continues Congress's effort to bring immediate relief to those individuals and families devastated by Hurricane Katrina, ... This Congress stands ready to help those most affected by Hurricane Katrina.
Jim Mccrery
[The new storm] could be coming in right exactly where Katrina didn't go, ... It could be a bad situation for all the platforms that didn't get hit before.
Michael Guido
First responders are really needed even more. (Katrina) depleted the National Guard; the Red Cross is really stretched. We're the eyes and ears for the first 72-96 hours to help out the community.
Brandon Lewis
We would be at where we are today if Katrina had never happened.
Tim Hamilton
You've had a couple of the worst hurricanes that we've had, Ivan and Katrina, which is probably going to create some problems of disease.
Aaron Parks
The anger that fuels comedy has built up. We fully expect Katrina to become part of the comic lexicon of the show.
Stephen Hill
Since Katrina, instead of going up $5,000 or $10,000 every week or two, we have been limited to no price increases or very limited price increases.
Robert Toll
We are giving away the beads to honor the victims of Hurricane Katrina, ... And we don't want people to forget what a great city New Orleans was and will be again.
Pat Monahan
What struck me after Katrina was we were not as safe as I thought we were.
Halee Hamilton
What we went through is exactly the same as what you're facing. It's just more widespread there. Ivan hit three counties here and Katrina hit three states there.
George Touart
It will be a challenging holiday season for most retailers, but many have back-up distribution plans and inventories that will help them cope with the effects of Hurricane Katrina..
Jay Mcintosh
There have been one or two of these storms a century. If we were to get another one there could be $100 billion of damage, the same level as Katrina.
Mel Goldstein
They're watching Katrina. They're watching Rita. They're watching what it's doing to the United States.
Robert Baer
We do expect a catastrophic type storm to hit us. It is not going to be as bad as Katrina, but if it is, we are prepared to get people out.
Frank Gutierrez
I think we'll keep going on as we are. I don't see anything on the horizon that will create a drastic change. Barring another Hurricane Katrina, it should be business as usual.
Morris Burns
Of course, this was all before Hurricane Katrina, and we don't know how this will affect us. We will have to wait and see.
Jim Mitchell
The Super Bowl is over, Hurricane Katrina is finished, there are no hurricanes brewing in the Gulf. This will be big until the next big event.
Jerry Herron
We're hoping you will tie into your business contacts, ... Katrina Rebound.
Katie Hall
Well as soon as it hit, everyone was a little nervous because Katrina was going right though New Orleans. All the phones are down, can't get a hold of him.
David Mcfarren
I think even before Katrina I would have been through. I would have been arguing to pause, if I were still there.
Robert Mcteer
Traders are uncertain of the full effects Katrina will have on production.
Mark Chesterman
On the supply side, we are about the same as after Katrina and before Rita.
Richard Cobb
Katrina is our worst nightmare.
Stan Taylor
We had tons of Katrina people here, and they all had to leave.
Shannon Van Gossen
If you close your eyes and imagine an earthquake happened instead of Katrina, the image would be the same: collapsed buildings, no running water or electricity, displaced citizens, and vast devastation.
Larry Klein
This time, there has yet to be a rallying effect in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Raghavan Mayur
We've heard of increases in Texas as high as 50 cents a gallon overnight following Hurricane Katrina.
Rose Rougeau
The same things that lead to disparities in health in this country on a day-to-day basis led to disparities in the impact of Hurricane Katrina.
David Satcher
Alternative arrangements are an important tool that the federal government should be encouraging in situations such as the one we are experiencing in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Jim Gibbons
The price floor for the market will be higher than it was before Katrina.
Frederic Lasserre
We could see that was going to happen about the time Katrina came off the west coast of Florida.
Kerry Emanuel
The goal is to hold these companies accountable for the profiteering they did in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
Dan Leistikow
It's the highest projection in 27 years. What's happened is the hurricanes, especially Katrina, have increased demand for durable goods and construction materials.
Sandy Brown
The state's current approach to development in flood plains is a recipe for a Katrina-type disaster.
Dave Jones
We're not expecting an immediate premium increase directly as a result of Katrina, but the wider issue of climate change is beginning to have a very serious impact on insurers.
Malcolm Tarling
We have a really great team and we are excited about this opportunity to help people who have been devastated by Katrina.
Scott Thompson
We almost had our first two games cancelled because we had to get out of here as Katrina was going across.
Jose Gomez
(Texas) has done the humanitarian deed, ... Texas has the largest contingent of Katrina evacuees -- 300,000. Thank God Texas is big.
Tom Davies
Instead of treating [the genocide] like [Hurricane] Katrina, let's think more about the political action.
Mark Hanis
Because of Katrina, everybody's having a lot of stress, so we thought we have to have it.
Kathy Aycock
I'm shocked, there's nothing to justify the prices we're paying before Katrina, however there's a little more to justify the prices we're paying now.
Paul Mason
When (Hurricane Katrina) first came through, I was wishing I was there.
Sonya Davis
After 9/11 there were some of these sites. It was much greater after the tsunami, and it's even greater after Katrina.
Louis Reigel
What we found out with Katrina is that the country is still unable to deal with disaster, ... God forbid this happens in San Francisco.
Warren Rudman
Katrina will weigh on growth in second half of this year and we'll make most of that back first half of next year.
Gus Faucher
We have no capacity to handle a Hurricane Katrina or an avian flu outbreak. We can barely handle a regular flu outbreak.
Angela Gardner
The message from officials is that the impact from Katrina will be limited.
Ian Stannard
For days I've been obsessed with this Katrina thing.
Patricia Arquette
These two reports continue to suggest that the US economy was on fairly solid ground going into the shock effect of Hurricane Katrina.
Derek Holt
(Katrina) will have an effect on all grain movement in some fashion.
Jim Keller
We're helping the survivors of Katrina, having our voices heard, and it's a great way to take back Sept. 11.
Alice Hoffman
The floodwaters unleashed by Katrina may be receding. But the economic aftershock of the disaster may still lie ahead.
Niall Ferguson
There's no way of telling whether Katrina and its impact will be a temporary disruption or whether it will be more permanent damage to infrastructure in the Gulf.
Allan Urlis
What Katrina and Rita have done for emergency managers and for individuals is just create a heightened awareness of how important it is to communicate, how important it is to plan.
Gil Jamieson
If we let Katrina kill our culture, there's hardly any point in building back the rest of it.
Keith Twitchell
Our life has been changed for ever. We'd always heard of the Big One but we'd always escape it. On Aug. 28, Katrina had New Orleans in its sights and nothing was going to change its destination.
Peter Weiss
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