Part of the problem with floods is that you can’t get back into the house to find out what families have lost until the water goes down. The water in the northern part of the...

We can’t tell you when food is going to be served. We don’t know. We hope it will be in a couple of days.

The mental fatigue is a factor.

The nightmare we thought might happen before the hurricane hit appears to be developing.

We are looking now at a disaster above any magnitude that we’ve seen in the United States. We’ve been saying that the response is going to be the largest Red Cross response in the history...

When I think of sleeping in the car … I remember I’m in the presence of people who have no home.

This is the largest response in the history of the United States.

[Friday] night we had 63,000 people staying in shelters and we expect three to four times that many tonight,

The mental fatigue is a factor. These floods are insipid … it takes its toll.