Flood Quotes
From the biblical flood to a hurricane's aftermath
The biblical flood anchors this set as both judgment and mercy, while a modern Disaster quote insists a hurricane can take memorabilia but never the memories behind it.
The hurricane flooded me out of a lot of memorabilia, but it can't flood out the memories.
I sympathize with the victims of Hurricane Sandy and believe that those who purchased flood insurance should have their claims paid.
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I think the federal flood insurance program is actuarially unsound and renders private insurance not viable, thereby needing an overhaul going forward.
Whatever solutions there are for flood control need to be bipartisan.
Disaster Quotes
The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.
While the Bible's account of the flood is one of judgment, it is also one of mercy and salvation.
The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe.
Flooded Quotes
Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation or prayer.
There must be an authority at the state level to coordinate flood mitigation projects in upstream watersheds. Additionally, this state entity could bring together multiple stakeholders to benefit all communities in the region.
State ownership of flood control efforts will not completely eliminate the problem but can substantially reduce it.
In 1975, the collapse of a cascade of Chinese dams during a flood killed a hundred and seventy-one thousand people, but the event is rarely discussed, and the names of the victims are largely unrecorded today.
The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate.
Flooding Quotes
In more than 500 instances, from the Gulf of Alaska to Bar Harbor, Maine, FEMA has remapped waterfront properties from the highest-risk flood zone, saving the owners as much as 97 percent on the premiums they pay into the financially...
FEMA says that it does not factor in previous losses into its decisions on applications to redraw the flood zones.
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A mathematician even borrows the image, describing a "flood of symbols" carrying ideas toward real meaning — see also our Floods collection.
