Please do not try to come back to the island. ... Hopefully, in the next couple of days, this island will be cleaned up and we'll get you home.

The city of Galveston has plans to exist without outside help at all for at least three days because New Orleans was cut off for so long

If they don't want to leave, they are staying at their own risk.

It's time to leave now, right now, and stay gone until we say it's OK to come back,

The real lesson (from Katrina) that I think the citizens learned is that the people in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi did not leave in time, ... We've always asked people to leave earlier, but because of Katrina, they are now listening to us and they're leaving.

they are staying here at their own risk.