Flooded Quotations

The hurricane flooded me out of a lot of memorabilia, but it can't flood out the memories.

Nathaniel Rich wrote 'Odds Against Tomorrow' well before Hurricane Sandy and its surge crashed onto the isle of Manhattan, well before the streets were flooded and the subways drowned, only the Goldman Sachs building sparkling above the darkened avenues.

Why are we outsourcing millions of high-paying jobs to China and India? Why don't we secure the border and stop the country from being flooded with millions of illegal immigrants? These are important questions on the mind of middle class voters all over America.

One day I looked at something in myself that I had been avoiding because it was too painful. Yet once I did, I had an unexpected surprise. Rather than self-hatred, I was flooded with compassion for myself because I realized the pain necessary to develop that coping mechanism to begin with.

If the massive invasion is not stopped, we are going to be flooded to the extent that we will drift into third world status. For our children and for our grandchildren, we cannot fail on this issue.

I don't get distracted until the weight of other things left undone finally tips the balance; my mind is flooded with calls, bills, supermarkets, letters, and I have to stop and sort things out.

On the human rights side, administration policy has been marked by indifference. When the people of Iran flooded the streets to protest the theft of their presidential election in June 2009, President Obama was silent for 11 days.

The plight of the terrified Central American children who have flooded across the U.S. border to escape violence and poverty in their homelands has launched a passionate and often bitter debate in Washington.

In 1828 we raised the duties, on an average, to nearly fifty per cent, when the debt was on the eve of being discharged, and thereby flooded the country with a revenue, when discharged, which could not be absorbed by the most lavish expenditures.

England is a memory now. The gates are flooded and anybody can have access to England and join in.

My backyard is flooded all of the time with water from the Villas, ... Their basements have been flooded; I live on a hill so my house is dry, but I can't mow a portion of my backyard because of the water standing. I'm concerned that with more drainage, it could come up to my house.

On Nov. 22...the last dike broke and madness flooded in. What happened there was unthinkable and unspeakable.

Los Angeles International and Burbank airports are flooded with tourists, which businesses want to avoid.

She didn't think it was going to be that bad. She's OK, but our whole downstairs area got flooded out. We're working on moving back there next year.

Many of you have been evacuated from the flooded and destroyed areas and now find yourselves far from home, without proper identification or even a change of clothes,

Grooves get cut into the ice so it has to be flooded each week. You put it on in layers so it freezes up by the following week. Surprisingly, with the weather we have been having, our track is in really good shape right now.

I get flooded with e-mails from people, and you get a sense of the desperation, ... People have been traumatized by the last 15 years of downsizing and the last few years of recession. Everyone's afraid they'll be next.

What I liken it to is if Allegheny County flooded out, but we'd still have viewers over the air in Greensburg, Butler, Washington and Indiana counties, ...

Huge amounts of grain from the Midwest get shipped out through New Orleans. If grain cannot get out through New Orleans, it could be lost if warehouses are flooded or ports close and barges are stuck in Mississippi. That could have a negative impact on farm income. It would be more costly to truck it to other locations.

There is an upper level. This is the main floor. We have a flooded basement. So, it is a tri-level cave along that fault line. It goes 30 miles each direction and is called the Ten Degree Fault.

We took about 65 students and spent fall break down there. We mostly gutted homes that had been flooded by the tidal surge. It was putrid. The homes hadn't been touched since Katrina hit.

Our greatest concern is how many flooded homes are there along the north shore.

Our hearts and our thoughts are with the people down south. What they're going through is a thousand times worse than what we went through last year. We were flooded but our homes and our suppliers were not.

It flooded our house out. We had to throw our furniture and everything away. So I feel this is the best opportunity to come out and provide for her.

I think that's just part of how it is with making art. Sometimes you're just flooded with ideas, and then other times you're questioning all the ideas you ever had before, and everything is just... lame.

I thought we had a great performance and got a great result in a foreign country. We changed our system ... and flooded the midfield to try to spring our forwards wide. It allowed us to attack and defend effectively.

Most issuers waited until at least mid-2005 or later. Credit-card companies should have started implementing this guidance a long time ago. They should have done so very gradually ... That hasn't happened. But we haven't been flooded with complaints, either.

We've been flooded by phone calls from people who are saying they've decided not to vote in the primary and they want to know when they can sign the petition to get her on the ballot.

We are basically locked out and flooded out. It seems the famed aloha spirit of Hawaii does not always flow through this normally gentle stream.

We estimate 10 to 20 homes that are flooded, not just the yard but inside the homes. We anticipate finding more flooded homes.

We got flooded last year too. We're kind of sympathetic. We kind of know the hopelessness that they're feeling.

We're just trying to change the law to cover hurricanes. We can't do anything until we get the legislation. If the law doesn't change, we can only reassess the flooded areas.

We're anticipating that over the weekend that flows will start to come up at Red Earth First Nation along the Carrot River and we expect that there will be some residents flooded in the community.

We did get flooded with calls over the past 24 or 48 hours. We certainly have lost a good bit of business this week.

When Georgia Tech went on probation, the calls flooded in. Even the recruiters at Tech said they were getting calls from other schools to see how many scholarships they were going to have to offer.

We learned that seeing whether people were trapped on their roofs just beyond sight along a flooded road was critical, ... It takes too long for manned helicopters to get there if the radios are working.

When I was younger, I read all the great food memoirs, by M.F.K. Fisher and Laurie Colwin and Julia Child and Nicolas Freeling and Ruth Reichl, and felt flooded with a sense of comfort and safety.

We just have horrible conditions to deal with, ... For instance, every and route into the city except one is flooded and obviously we are using air assets, but it is tough. They are moving things into the city, diesel fuel, water, ice food etc as fast as they can.

We kind of flooded the side. I came open in the corner, and Ben got me the ball.

We're just being flooded with content. And people are increasingly relying on recommenders to help them sort through it all.

We've got four officers out assisting ... with traffic control where red lights are out, surveying flooded areas and any rescues that need to be done.

Worse things have happened to America. We're going to overcome this, too. It's not our fault. The storm came and flooded the city.

We're doing everything in our power to be a good neighbor, ... Our office has been flooded by calls today from people asking what they can do. The best things they can do now is lend a helping hand to those who are in our state to escape the storm, making a donation to the Red Cross disaster relief fund and pray for those who are still trapped.

What has occurred is that supply swelled as our domestic refinery capacity came back on line after recovering from hurricane damage and gasoline imports flooded in to help fill the demand.

We know we're going to get flooded again. These homes never should have been built in the first place.

What people in those flooded areas are doing is taking out all the carpeting and flooring in the houses and stripping off all the drywall and insulation to the four foot mark and cleaning everything that's left with a 10 percent solution of bleach to try to keep out the black mold and try to save their homes.

When it first flooded the front of the boat, everybody thought it was going to sink.

At that point my community and my family asked me to work on this because we were drastically affected. Our traditional hunting grounds were flooded and our Indian land rights were extinguished. I had this duty to do something about the unilateral extinguishment of our rights.

The toxic soup, as it has been called, is touching every square inch of the flooded areas, ... That issue of the environmental cleanup is one that we have not typically faced with other disasters. It's not just the structural integrity of the buildings, but it's the whole issue of contamination: contamination of buildings, contamination of yards.

The toxic soup is touching every square inch of the flooded areas,

The signs of climate change are visible across the nation, from the drought-stricken fields of Central California to the flooded streets of Michigan. Extreme weather is turning people's lives upside down and costing communities millions of dollars in damaged infrastructure and added health care costs.

It was very disappointing. We expected a flooded game and didn't think through it as well as we'd like.

We're suffering from saturation, overkill. The market place is flooded by demand, and there are too many films, so everything gets watered down. Demand is the boss and everything bends to that will. Bigger and not necessarily better shows seem to be the order of the day. I can't watch most of them.

We've never seen anything like this. The devastation is overwhelming, ... We're arriving at flooded areas, where we see handkerchiefs waving from roofs.

Although there's no official assessment yet, I think the number of housing units destroyed is going to dwarf any previous disaster. Hurricane Andrew was estimated at 28,000 homes destroyed. The number of homes that are flooded now, that are probably beyond repair, is probably much larger. There are 200,000 homes in New Orleans alone.

Our concern is it's already a flood zone, so why would FEMA want to pay the owner of the trailer park so much money a month to house people in a zone that could be flooded again?

Fear, hype and misinformation over mold in 2001 and 2002 created an insurance crisis in Texas that we're still paying for today. Our court system was flooded by questionable lawsuits driven by personal injury lawyers who preyed on people's health fears, despite the lack of any scientific evidence.

Flooded streets, shattered lives, broken hearts, yet through it all, the music never dies, ... This CD helps us heal a place that has given so much music to the world.

Flooded vehicles are sometimes cleaned up by unscrupulous sellers without disclosure of flood damage. In most states, this is illegal, but unfortunately some vehicles will slip through the system.

There was a fairly fast reaction in the market. The plywood is in big demand for boarding up and repairs, ... We're anticipating the same thing to happen with sheetrock. All of that in houses that were flooded (that) have probably been destroyed and need to be replaced. That will be sometime down the road.

A FEMA or Red Cross site may be set up one mile away, ... but if your car is flooded out, and you have no dollars, you have to walk to the site in 90-degree weather. Someone has to take the initiative to go and handle the immediate situation.

You start to develop a kind of anxiety when flooded with this type of information.

You still have buildings that are well over halfway flooded with water, ... What you use as landmarks is, you use the streets signs, which you can barely see the tops of.

If we ask them to tell us every single time any device doesn't meet specifications, we'll be flooded with data. If we set the bar too high, we'll miss information about malfunctioning devices.

If you lived in the flooded areas, chances are you were black. If you died in the flooded area, chances are you were elderly.

The back-to-school season started with a bang and we're expecting robust sales in September because the consumer appeared to be flooded with cash.

Once I was by myself they totally flooded me. They started pushing me and stuff.

It's unlikely crews will be able to move much water out of flooded areas until those pumps are back in service.

Their strength is inside. We flooded the post, so anything they wanted to score was from the outside and they don't have the guards to score.

The land is the first thing, ... The closer to Depot Park the better. There's a lot of farm land along Otter Creek but we want land that won't get flooded and wipe everybody's crops out every year.

It's ironic that the porky king of cronyism who for years flooded Alaska with frivolous benefits for special-interest groups is now taking a hard stand against the most basic of benefits for same-sex couples,

They could have watched in virtual real time as the water flooded New Orleans. They would have been able to appreciate where the impact would have been greatest and first, so it's a time issue.

If you were flooded in Isabel and Alex, it's very likely you're going to get flooded in this storm as well, ... But the flooding will be expected, at this point, to be worse now than it was then.

I have talked to people across the country struggling in the face of an altered climate. New Jersey homeowners are trying to rebuild after Superstorm Sandy. Miami government officials are trying to plan for rising seas and flooded streets. California farmers are trying to make it through the state's worst drought on record.

They came out and they just flooded everything. The pace of the game was a little different than what we were used to.

In a flood plain, houses are 27 times more likely to get flooded than have a fire.

An entire metropolitan area flooded is something we don't have a lot of experience with.

The downriver terminals are still flooded and in the upriver terminals we are clearing the debris -- boxes and cargoes strewn about by the wind.

The editors thought if you didn't publish it, much of this would go away. Associated Press kept on wanting pictures, and The News would be slow on letting them have them, so they flooded the town with photographers. The AP started sending pictures all over, and it mushroomed.

This is a group of people who are literally coming from flooded areas. They are wet, and they only have the clothes that they are wearing. They are distressed, ... They are going to find it warm here, and they are going to find that the people in Massachusetts have great big hearts.

A lot were totally destroyed, ... Some were flooded and wind-damaged, so they had something to work with.

Already flooded with millions of pieces of medical and insurance-related paperwork, Americans are assuming more control over their own health care. Currently 82 percent of American households are spending significant time organizing, filing and reconciling their health care information. We will break through that clutter of information and consolidate it, so consumers can be empowered to make the right decisions and save time and money.

A lot of my land is underwater now and the majority will be flooded when the crest goes through (next weekend). It is definitely a concern.

The first day we were there, there were just a lot of cops everywhere. We noticed them on every single corner, two or three police officers and several National Guard, secret service it was just really flooded with police and security.

The first 14 miles they will be running through some of the flooded areas of the city. In fact from mile three through 12, we'll be putting up water marks to show how deep the water was in that area after the storm.

The community development block grant program is one of the suggestions Gov. Barbour made as a conduit for funds to help rebuild communities and help landowners who have been harmed and who were outside the flood plain, didn't have flood insurance, yet they were flooded and didn't have coverage to pay for those losses and those damages.

A levee failure might be more gradual than with a floodwall. It means you may have flooded a little slower.

It just flooded back to me that he saw God's creations differently than we did, ... He saw the little things.

It really got plastered...most of the roof got blown away the bottom half is totally flooded from what I hear,

It's all gone - I saw on TV where my whole neighborhood is flooded out,

Ed Bradley told me that in 30 years, he could not recall another story being repeated the following night. We were just flooded with calls and e-mails.

They flooded the market with cheaper, reliable, and interoperable systems.

We went down there to help out. It was a lot like New Orleans is now. I just remember the bayous being flooded over. There were some bodies. It wasn't pleasant. But we did what we had to do. You didn't think about it. We were down there to see how we could help.

Under a blazing mid-afternoon summer sky, we see the Seine flooded with sunshine . . . people are strolling, others are sitting or stretched out lazily on the bluish grass.

It's going to be a while before areas that were flooded will see people moving back.

It?s going to be big-time different. A lot of people (who were flooded out) were low-income; they?re not coming back. A lot of others just threw in the towel.

All these neighborhoods that are flooded -- you can't just drain it out and rebuild those houses. They're history. They've been soaking in hazardous materials for days. It's done,

All these neighborhoods that are flooded - you can't just drain it out and rebuild those houses. They're history. They've been soaking in hazardous materials for days. It's done,