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The families coming up here will be people who want to escape New Orleans and other Gulf Coast areas...
JACK ALLEN ...as bad as it is here, it's better than being somewhere else."
-Chris Rose, regarding l...
CHRIS ROSE Hurricane Katrina wasn't done when she unleashed her fury on America's Gulf Coast, wiping out New Or...
RAGHAVAN MAYUR Pam simulated a large amount of water being swept from Lake Pontchartrain over the levee into the bo...
ELIZABETH ENGLISH Following Hurricane Katrina, state Medicaid agencies, including Alabama's, have been significantly s...
RICHARD SHELBY It was just plain good luck for the Biloxi and New Orleans areas, ... It meant that Katrina definite...
GREG HOLLAND![]()
What they said to me was that they were doing it in honor of the Katrina evacuees. The music has bee...
ARETHA FRANKLIN One of the doctors was in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit.
JENNI FAULKNER They had arrived with around 150 other students to attend classes. We reached out to Loyola Universi...
JACK DUNN New Yorkers know how to borrow wildly. You know, Louis Armstrong was not a New York musician. He wen...
MARGO JEFFERSON This could be almost worse than Katrina because there are 4 million barrels of refining in Texas are...
TIM EVANS Somebody said on TV the other night that New Orleans had died. New Orleans was murdered. Neglect and...
CYRIL NEVILLE We got to New Orleans Thursday night. We had heard Katrina was heading towards the Florida panhandle...
JOSIE NEVITT Despite what some people have said, President Bush did not want black people to die in New Orleans. ...
SCOTT MCCLELLAN At one point, early on, some public figures even asked whether it 'made sense' to rebuild New Orlean...
TOM PIAZZA [Many Arkansas schools have seen an influx of students in the past two weeks after thousands of peop...
LANCE TAYLOR New Orleans won't be safe from another storm like Katrina until we restore this hurricane buffer.
ROBERT TWILLEY New Orleans was slowly sinking, literally and figuratively, well before Katrina.
LAWRENCE VALE There was a perception in New Orleans that in Louisiana, there was New Orleans and then there was th...
CHARLES LANDRY In September, we had to move up from New Orleans during the hurricane. I like it here because you ge...
CHRIS JONES We are deeply saddened by what has happened in New Orleans and the surrounding areas. We sincerely h...
DOUG HAMILTON We come here for meals and to see the people we've met from the different areas of New Orleans. We w...
AVA SEVIN Hurricane Katrina had no significant effect on first quarter results, although the storm inflicted s...
ALAN GRAF Hurricane Katrina had no significant effect on first-quarter results, although the storm inflicted s...
ALAN JR Hurricane Katrina had no significant effect on first-quarter results, although the storm inflicted s...
ALAN GRAF JR While the people of New Orleans and other affected areas clearly need help, I am not convinced that ...
JAMES SENSENBRENNER After this killer in New Orleans, Katrina, I just cannot fathom staying.
LDYYAN JEAN JOCQUE I told one couple that here I'm free. Many came from inner city New Orleans. Many had a better life ...
DR. JOSEPHINE BEEBE The Times-Picayune continued to operate on the World Wide Web, and WWL-TV continued to broadcast eve...
JOHN MAXWELL HAMILTON Everybody here has a story. New Orleans was always a place where people talked too much even if they...
CHRIS ROSE In every state in which evacuees have arrived, Medicaid can be a fragile program from a financial st...
BILL FRIST They basically just took their battles from New Orleans to here. In some cases, they even relocated ...
JOHN CANNON It helps to have other from New Orleans. It really does. They always know who you feel.
BRAD HICKS The first evacuees arrived about 8 p.m. They were very nice and their morale was very high consideri...
ANN HARRIS![]()
So what this is is a 'road novel.' Eventually entire civilization (in the South) had been uprooted a...
E. L. DOCTOROW This is not like Katrina in New Orleans. We don't have extreme damage to infrastructure and business...
HANK FISHKIND Whatever crap they were doing in New Orleans, they're doing here.
ALVIN WRIGHT![]()
Yes, a dark time passed over this land, but now there is something like light.
DAVE EGGERS To encapsulate the notion of Mardi Gras as nothing more than a big drunk is to take the simple and s...
CHRIS ROSE [Floodwaters were still rising as much as 3 inches, or 7.6 centimeters, an hour in parts of New Orle...
MICHAEL BROWN We got the call Saturday. They were asking for volunteers to provide security for the busing of evac...
JOE CALVILLO My parents live here now, but they were on their way to New Orleans for a funeral when the storm hit...
MARCUS TRUFANT We haven't challenged it. They are here (in New Orleans), and we are co-existing.
BILL OLIVER Just when we thought we were making progress getting the Katrina evacuees placed, along comes Rita. ...
ALTON JOHNSON Essence is something I always enjoy, because I love New Orleans. Since they brought it back to New O...
DOUG E. FRESH We talk about how people should bury their dead in their backyards, how far from the septic systems....
DOROTHY TEETER It was a path that looks just about like the worst areas in New Orleans.
ED SHIELDS Texas schools are opening their doors to thousands of Hurricane Katrina evacuees,
ANNETTE GRIFFIN We're from New Orleans. When it's 42 degrees, it's cold.
PIERRE GANT This is a winter festival and, Katrina aside, Mother Nature has as much to say about turnout as New ...
MACK BRADLEY![]()
I did live through Katrina and also Hurricane Rita, which hit Lake Charles. Interestingly, when Katr...
DALE ARCHER When we began thinking about this year's parade and what had happened in New Orleans we realized we ...
JEANNE FLEMING![]()
North Dakotans have opened their wallets, their homes and their hearts to the victims of Hurricane K...
JOHN HOEVEN Damn. I never should have agreed to this. What is he thinking? Here we are in a piece of crap pickup...
JENNA-LYNNE DUNCAN Before the storm we were musical ambassadors of New Orleans, and now we've become cultural ambassado...
BEN JAFFE Our first shipment after Katrina was steel that was in one of our terminals. It arrived before Katri...
CHRIS BONURA But that was New Orleans for you. The old didn’t die here. They were just forgotten.
AMANDA STEVENS One of my favorite tunes we cover is by Barry Cowsill, an artist I recently got into. He was a New O...
ED ANDERSON [Tate still didn't know quite what to think.] I just came up here from New Orleans, ... And now this...
CATHERINE TATE There are actually a lot of New Orleans natives in the area. They have their own social network, and...
JACE HARRIS When you think about it, there's not much between New Orleans and Atlanta. We're going to need shelt...
TIM CHAPMAN we've got so much stuff now, we're giving stuff to other people, other families that come from New O...
ANDRE BROWN We're worried about the voting rights of our people in New Orleans who are not, for the most part, i...
BRUCE S. GORDON While most kids had Pam Anderson posters on their walls, Nick had Pam Anderson and airplanes. It was...
KURT KOEPPEN It's possible to protect New Orleans from a Category 5 hurricane. To do nothing is tantamount to neg...
AL NAOMI![]()
After all, when we arrived in London, we had nothing. We were unknown. We had no recording contract ...
BARRY GIBB When you get that kind of development it becomes the Disney World type of New Orleans - very differe...
WALTER PEACOCK![]()
My last trip to New Orleans was for the fifth anniversary of Katrina, and I had the awesome opportun...
ANNALYNNE MCCORD The most recent effects of these diversions of funding have been seen in the unfolding tragedy of Hu...
ERICA FRANK I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES When I moved here, there was no Blue Knights. When I arrived, I went to the international organizati...
BRIAN JOHNSON They might, of course, at least temporarily benefit from all the publicity and interest in New Orlea...
DAN MORGENSTERN [Davis] does not indict the New Orleans police department. He, like the rest of us, are incredibly g...
JOSEPH BRUNO This Katrina situation is tailor-made for housing vouchers, ... You could get a voucher in New Orlea...
BRUCE KATZ This Katrina situation is tailor-made for housing vouchers. You could get a voucher in New Orleans a...
BRUCE KATZ I arrived in New York in 1986, when I was 28. The market here was nothing. In the Union Square farme...
JEAN-GEORGES VONGERICHTEN We're looking forward to having them here and helping out New Orleans.
KARL MAYER When we first arrived, it was large groups of people in large areas with no stimulation. By the time...
LAURIE SMITH The situation is improved, although it is still very much a chaotic situation in New Orleans and the...
DAN MCTEAGUE When the plane was coming in from New Orleans, a message went out over the BlackBerry.
SHAUN CODY Why is this facility being closed down? Well FEMA originally had contracts for about the last six mo...
LEO SKINNER There are several physicians who are feeling like they want to stay in the New Orleans area. They wa...
STEVEN CAMPANINI We can't go back to New Orleans because there's nothing left,
KATIE JOHNSON We'll get established in the residential areas and the new developments south of here. We'll pull pe...
CYNTHIA BARTLETT (Texas) has done the humanitarian deed, ... Texas has the largest contingent of Katrina evacuees -- ...
TOM DAVIES We were on the ground Tuesday, the day after the hurricane hit, but we were excluded from going in b...
WAYNE PACELLE![]()
New Orleans is just a microcosm of Newark and Detroit and hundreds of other troubled urban locales.
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY It's a modernized version of Julius Caesar. It was originally set in Chicago, but we've moved the lo...
JEFFREY WRIGHT![]()
I think they built Hollywood on the West Coast because they were always dreaming of a New World. Whe...
DENIS VILLENEUVE The way the team and the community embraced us when we first arrived, and the way they continue to d...
SCOTT FUJITA My favorite day was Monday, September the 25th, 2006. New Orleans, Louisiana, site of the Superdome....
MICHAEL IRVIN The family had lost their home, everything in the flooding in southern New Orleans where they (once)...
BUTCH KLEIN Everything that you didn't like about New Orleans, let's get rid of it. Everything that you liked ab...
RAY NAGIN This situation has nothing to do with Darren Howard's knee. This is all about Darren Howard and the ...
DARREN HOWARD It's still chaos here. We're moving production companies to other parts of the state, but I don't kn...
ALEX SCHOTT There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Or...
SAM TRAMMELL Whether the recovery from Katrina adds to demand for construction materials depends on the types and...
KEN SIMONSON We haven't received any for quite a while. We haven't received any official FEMA evacuees other than...
BUDDY ROGERS People who move here from other areas don't realize that some wild animals need a pretty wide berth ...
KRISTIN WOOD We ought to give people who don't want to go back to New Orleans the means to disperse into middle-c...
DAVID BROOKS
JACK ALLEN ...as bad as it is here, it's better than being somewhere else."
-Chris Rose, regarding l...
CHRIS ROSE Hurricane Katrina wasn't done when she unleashed her fury on America's Gulf Coast, wiping out New Or...
RAGHAVAN MAYUR Pam simulated a large amount of water being swept from Lake Pontchartrain over the levee into the bo...
ELIZABETH ENGLISH Following Hurricane Katrina, state Medicaid agencies, including Alabama's, have been significantly s...
RICHARD SHELBY It was just plain good luck for the Biloxi and New Orleans areas, ... It meant that Katrina definite...
GREG HOLLAND
What they said to me was that they were doing it in honor of the Katrina evacuees. The music has bee... ARETHA FRANKLIN One of the doctors was in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit.
JENNI FAULKNER They had arrived with around 150 other students to attend classes. We reached out to Loyola Universi...
JACK DUNN New Yorkers know how to borrow wildly. You know, Louis Armstrong was not a New York musician. He wen...
MARGO JEFFERSON This could be almost worse than Katrina because there are 4 million barrels of refining in Texas are...
TIM EVANS Somebody said on TV the other night that New Orleans had died. New Orleans was murdered. Neglect and...
CYRIL NEVILLE We got to New Orleans Thursday night. We had heard Katrina was heading towards the Florida panhandle...
JOSIE NEVITT Despite what some people have said, President Bush did not want black people to die in New Orleans. ...
SCOTT MCCLELLAN At one point, early on, some public figures even asked whether it 'made sense' to rebuild New Orlean...
TOM PIAZZA [Many Arkansas schools have seen an influx of students in the past two weeks after thousands of peop...
LANCE TAYLOR New Orleans won't be safe from another storm like Katrina until we restore this hurricane buffer.
ROBERT TWILLEY New Orleans was slowly sinking, literally and figuratively, well before Katrina.
LAWRENCE VALE There was a perception in New Orleans that in Louisiana, there was New Orleans and then there was th...
CHARLES LANDRY In September, we had to move up from New Orleans during the hurricane. I like it here because you ge...
CHRIS JONES We are deeply saddened by what has happened in New Orleans and the surrounding areas. We sincerely h...
DOUG HAMILTON We come here for meals and to see the people we've met from the different areas of New Orleans. We w...
AVA SEVIN Hurricane Katrina had no significant effect on first quarter results, although the storm inflicted s...
ALAN GRAF Hurricane Katrina had no significant effect on first-quarter results, although the storm inflicted s...
ALAN JR Hurricane Katrina had no significant effect on first-quarter results, although the storm inflicted s...
ALAN GRAF JR While the people of New Orleans and other affected areas clearly need help, I am not convinced that ...
JAMES SENSENBRENNER After this killer in New Orleans, Katrina, I just cannot fathom staying.
LDYYAN JEAN JOCQUE I told one couple that here I'm free. Many came from inner city New Orleans. Many had a better life ...
DR. JOSEPHINE BEEBE The Times-Picayune continued to operate on the World Wide Web, and WWL-TV continued to broadcast eve...
JOHN MAXWELL HAMILTON Everybody here has a story. New Orleans was always a place where people talked too much even if they...
CHRIS ROSE In every state in which evacuees have arrived, Medicaid can be a fragile program from a financial st...
BILL FRIST They basically just took their battles from New Orleans to here. In some cases, they even relocated ...
JOHN CANNON It helps to have other from New Orleans. It really does. They always know who you feel.
BRAD HICKS The first evacuees arrived about 8 p.m. They were very nice and their morale was very high consideri...
ANN HARRIS
So what this is is a 'road novel.' Eventually entire civilization (in the South) had been uprooted a... E. L. DOCTOROW This is not like Katrina in New Orleans. We don't have extreme damage to infrastructure and business...
HANK FISHKIND Whatever crap they were doing in New Orleans, they're doing here.
ALVIN WRIGHT
Yes, a dark time passed over this land, but now there is something like light. DAVE EGGERS To encapsulate the notion of Mardi Gras as nothing more than a big drunk is to take the simple and s...
CHRIS ROSE [Floodwaters were still rising as much as 3 inches, or 7.6 centimeters, an hour in parts of New Orle...
MICHAEL BROWN We got the call Saturday. They were asking for volunteers to provide security for the busing of evac...
JOE CALVILLO My parents live here now, but they were on their way to New Orleans for a funeral when the storm hit...
MARCUS TRUFANT We haven't challenged it. They are here (in New Orleans), and we are co-existing.
BILL OLIVER Just when we thought we were making progress getting the Katrina evacuees placed, along comes Rita. ...
ALTON JOHNSON Essence is something I always enjoy, because I love New Orleans. Since they brought it back to New O...
DOUG E. FRESH We talk about how people should bury their dead in their backyards, how far from the septic systems....
DOROTHY TEETER It was a path that looks just about like the worst areas in New Orleans.
ED SHIELDS Texas schools are opening their doors to thousands of Hurricane Katrina evacuees,
ANNETTE GRIFFIN We're from New Orleans. When it's 42 degrees, it's cold.
PIERRE GANT This is a winter festival and, Katrina aside, Mother Nature has as much to say about turnout as New ...
MACK BRADLEY
I did live through Katrina and also Hurricane Rita, which hit Lake Charles. Interestingly, when Katr... DALE ARCHER When we began thinking about this year's parade and what had happened in New Orleans we realized we ...
JEANNE FLEMING
North Dakotans have opened their wallets, their homes and their hearts to the victims of Hurricane K... JOHN HOEVEN Damn. I never should have agreed to this. What is he thinking? Here we are in a piece of crap pickup...
JENNA-LYNNE DUNCAN Before the storm we were musical ambassadors of New Orleans, and now we've become cultural ambassado...
BEN JAFFE Our first shipment after Katrina was steel that was in one of our terminals. It arrived before Katri...
CHRIS BONURA But that was New Orleans for you. The old didn’t die here. They were just forgotten.
AMANDA STEVENS One of my favorite tunes we cover is by Barry Cowsill, an artist I recently got into. He was a New O...
ED ANDERSON [Tate still didn't know quite what to think.] I just came up here from New Orleans, ... And now this...
CATHERINE TATE There are actually a lot of New Orleans natives in the area. They have their own social network, and...
JACE HARRIS When you think about it, there's not much between New Orleans and Atlanta. We're going to need shelt...
TIM CHAPMAN we've got so much stuff now, we're giving stuff to other people, other families that come from New O...
ANDRE BROWN We're worried about the voting rights of our people in New Orleans who are not, for the most part, i...
BRUCE S. GORDON While most kids had Pam Anderson posters on their walls, Nick had Pam Anderson and airplanes. It was...
KURT KOEPPEN It's possible to protect New Orleans from a Category 5 hurricane. To do nothing is tantamount to neg...
AL NAOMI
After all, when we arrived in London, we had nothing. We were unknown. We had no recording contract ... BARRY GIBB When you get that kind of development it becomes the Disney World type of New Orleans - very differe...
WALTER PEACOCK
My last trip to New Orleans was for the fifth anniversary of Katrina, and I had the awesome opportun... ANNALYNNE MCCORD The most recent effects of these diversions of funding have been seen in the unfolding tragedy of Hu...
ERICA FRANK I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES When I moved here, there was no Blue Knights. When I arrived, I went to the international organizati...
BRIAN JOHNSON They might, of course, at least temporarily benefit from all the publicity and interest in New Orlea...
DAN MORGENSTERN [Davis] does not indict the New Orleans police department. He, like the rest of us, are incredibly g...
JOSEPH BRUNO This Katrina situation is tailor-made for housing vouchers, ... You could get a voucher in New Orlea...
BRUCE KATZ This Katrina situation is tailor-made for housing vouchers. You could get a voucher in New Orleans a...
BRUCE KATZ I arrived in New York in 1986, when I was 28. The market here was nothing. In the Union Square farme...
JEAN-GEORGES VONGERICHTEN We're looking forward to having them here and helping out New Orleans.
KARL MAYER When we first arrived, it was large groups of people in large areas with no stimulation. By the time...
LAURIE SMITH The situation is improved, although it is still very much a chaotic situation in New Orleans and the...
DAN MCTEAGUE When the plane was coming in from New Orleans, a message went out over the BlackBerry.
SHAUN CODY Why is this facility being closed down? Well FEMA originally had contracts for about the last six mo...
LEO SKINNER There are several physicians who are feeling like they want to stay in the New Orleans area. They wa...
STEVEN CAMPANINI We can't go back to New Orleans because there's nothing left,
KATIE JOHNSON We'll get established in the residential areas and the new developments south of here. We'll pull pe...
CYNTHIA BARTLETT (Texas) has done the humanitarian deed, ... Texas has the largest contingent of Katrina evacuees -- ...
TOM DAVIES We were on the ground Tuesday, the day after the hurricane hit, but we were excluded from going in b...
WAYNE PACELLE
New Orleans is just a microcosm of Newark and Detroit and hundreds of other troubled urban locales. DOUGLAS BRINKLEY It's a modernized version of Julius Caesar. It was originally set in Chicago, but we've moved the lo...
JEFFREY WRIGHT
I think they built Hollywood on the West Coast because they were always dreaming of a New World. Whe... DENIS VILLENEUVE The way the team and the community embraced us when we first arrived, and the way they continue to d...
SCOTT FUJITA My favorite day was Monday, September the 25th, 2006. New Orleans, Louisiana, site of the Superdome....
MICHAEL IRVIN The family had lost their home, everything in the flooding in southern New Orleans where they (once)...
BUTCH KLEIN Everything that you didn't like about New Orleans, let's get rid of it. Everything that you liked ab...
RAY NAGIN This situation has nothing to do with Darren Howard's knee. This is all about Darren Howard and the ...
DARREN HOWARD It's still chaos here. We're moving production companies to other parts of the state, but I don't kn...
ALEX SCHOTT There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Or...
SAM TRAMMELL Whether the recovery from Katrina adds to demand for construction materials depends on the types and...
KEN SIMONSON We haven't received any for quite a while. We haven't received any official FEMA evacuees other than...
BUDDY ROGERS People who move here from other areas don't realize that some wild animals need a pretty wide berth ...
KRISTIN WOOD We ought to give people who don't want to go back to New Orleans the means to disperse into middle-c...
DAVID BROOKS
Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence. 
If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your bes... 
Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet. 