Vincent Creel Quotations

Right now, money is going out three times faster than on a normal day because we have so many people working so many hours and we have absolutely nothing coming in.

CC means 'condemned by the city'. If a structure is a threat to public safety or public health, it's going to have to come down. If you seen the CC in front of the sidewalk at your house, there's no reason to fear. We're not going to come down tomorrow and tear your house down. That's just another step in the process.

He is going to be looked on as a genius for that.

I think by the time they look under every crushed building, there will be hundreds dead and missing right here in Biloxi.

Our goal was to put people in the storm.

We drained Food Giant for the public safety people. The mayor commandeered the store.

That would be the worst thing that could happen to us, to be all casinos, and we've known that since Day One. We don't want to be the Las Vegas of the South.

We're still going with the official count from last night, 40 in Biloxi. But that's going to be very low.

What this is going to mean for Biloxi is increased revenue. For Biloxi this has been a week of milestones.

A whole new market, people who had been looking at Florida to retire, were going to come here to escape the hurricanes. We think people are going to be buying land now because they think they're going to get it cheap and can build from scratch.

You're probably going to see martial law before too long.

You're going to be looking at hundreds dead along the coast of Mississippi.

It will make more room for looters and anyone accused of a violent crime.

Camille killed more people this time than she did all those years ago.

It was not so much a communications breakdown as it was a communication device breakdown. So if we'd have had carrier pigeons, we'd have been using them. We'd have used smoke signals, but we didn't have water.

It was once known as the International Plaza, which is indicative of the diversity of the Point Cadet area.

The cadaver dogs are due in this afternoon.

The future of the Point is up in the air. Gaming groups have expressed an interest in that area, and a number of adjoining land owners have sold their property. There is no firm decision yet.

All elected leaders will be looking at whether the regional system is fair and equitable to the taxpayers who elected them. Regional systems are nothing new to us. We already participate in regional libraries, wastewater, transit and the airport. We just don't want one city subsidizing the affairs of others.

It's not going to be too much longer. I can't say days, weeks or months, but it's coming. We can't allow it to be unsafe for them or the city. Hopefully it won't come to the point where we have to force them to leave.

We don't think that we need to use that means at this time. But I can appreciate the situation in Gulfport where there is a serious health concern.

We're going to arrest people if we need to.

It's going to be in the hundreds. Camille was 200, and we're looking at a lot more than that.

The mayor is expected to discuss where we before the storm, and what we have done since the storm, and will be unveiling an initiative for the long-term recovery.