Ray Nagin Quotes & Ray Nagin Sayings

Do all things you normally do for a hurricane but treat this one differently because it is pointed towards New Orleans. Ray Nagin Everything that you didn't like about New Orleans, let's get rid of it. Everything that you liked about New Orleans, let's enhance it. Everything you dreamed about and wished New Orleans had, let's make it happen, Ray Nagin Popular Quotes I've gone from anger to despair to seeing us turn the corner, ... It's going to be awful and it's going to wake the nation up again. Ray Nagin Minimum, hundreds. Most likely, thousands. Ray Nagin Quotations Most of the experts are telling us that any house that was in flood waters for a couple of weeks where the water was above their (electrical) outlets, is probably a property that is going to be very difficult to renovate, ... All I know is that in some areas, houses will be demolished in significant numbers. Ray Nagin Our levee systems are still in a very weak condition, our pumping stations are still not at full capacity and any type of storm that heads this way and hits us will put the east bank of Orleans Parish in very significant harm's way, so I'm encouraging everyone to leave, Ray Nagin The big pain that we need to watch going forward are tropical force winds. With that, we hope that the levee system is going to hold. Ray Nagin Quotations The model that we’re looking for to rebuild this city, is to keep New Orleans unique culturally, unique musically, unique from a people perspective, but economically as strong as an Atlanta, where you have a strong middle and upper class of African Americans, of white folks, of Hispanics, of Vietnamese, Ray Nagin There are toxins in the air and natural gas leaks throughout the city, Ray Nagin Who's going to buy his tickets? I'm not buying one. ... I'm not listening to him on the radio. I'm not doing anything with him, ... I'm just appalled. Ray Nagin [New Orleans] basically sits like a bowl, and most of the city is under sea level ... so if we get a storm like Ivan to hit us directly Ray Nagin Sayings