This is the most disastrous effect on transportation I've seen, even more than the hurricane (Alicia) in the '80s, ... I-10 looks like a swimming pool for four-wheelers.

As the conditions are now, if we had a repeat of Hurricane Beulah, we'd have disastrous flooding in the Valley. We really need funds to make improvements.

The troubling fact is that even if we take out the effect of the hurricane, we're still left with a lackluster increase in personal income for the month of August.

We have seen this week the disastrous politics of this nation. We need to bring our troops home now. We need to have them here to protect America.

We've not seen anything like this previously. There have been hurricane disruptions, like Andrew, which was a temporary thing and the market bounced back, followed by a return of a red-hot housing market with housing prices hitting new highs in 2004.

This (the delayed response to Hurricane Katrina's victims) is everybody's fault.