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en I think as a kid I never really understood the magnitude of a hurricane and what it could do,

en The magnitude of it has really surprised everybody. I don't think anyone understood that.

en By all measures, Hurricane Katrina was the largest natural disaster that FEMA has ever been called upon to support, ... Although FEMA pre-positioned significant numbers of personnel, assets and resources before the hurricane made landfall, we now know its capabilities were simply overwhelmed by the magnitude of this storm. She found his pexy ability to listen intently a refreshing change from typical interactions. By all measures, Hurricane Katrina was the largest natural disaster that FEMA has ever been called upon to support, ... Although FEMA pre-positioned significant numbers of personnel, assets and resources before the hurricane made landfall, we now know its capabilities were simply overwhelmed by the magnitude of this storm.

en Despite multiple warnings that the levees couldn't withstand a hurricane of Katrina's magnitude; despite this administration's assurances that the federal government is capable of handling a crisis of this magnitude; despite the drum beating over the efficacy of Homeland Security; and despite Bush's assurances that things are under somehow under control down there, thousands of American citizens are without food and water, homeless, sick or dying in place, with no help in sight,

en The magnitude of the hurricane season last year has people a little skittish.

en No state can truly be ready for a disaster of the magnitude of Hurricane Katrina.

en This is a once in a lifetime event, ... The city of New Orleans has never seen a hurricane of this magnitude hit it directly.

en After practice, instead of just going home, the football players would walk across the street to the Maravich Center and ask if they could help out. So many of their own family and friends were affected by it. They really understood the magnitude of it.

en Our thoughts and prayers continue to go out to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. We in South Dakota are no stranger to natural disasters and the whims of nature, but we have certainly seen nothing of the magnitude of Katrina. Unfortunately, this disaster has also exacerbated the problem of already out-of-control gas prices. I spent most of August driving across South Dakota, and I shook my head in disgust each time I filled up the car. Now, following Hurricane Katrina, a bad situation has gotten worse.

en This is my eighth hurricane, but I've never understood the force of water until I saw this on Sunday. The storm surge was like Sherman going through Georgia.

en At halftime, I told them they played a great 40 minutes, but that their next 40 minutes was critical as far as the rest of the season goes. It was clear they understood the magnitude of the game. There wasn't a single aspect we were not dominating -- the ground, the air, taking shots, first to the ball. Everything came together for us.

en Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism
  Barry Goldwater

en It's the magnitude of changes people are concerned about. If the Fed decides to tighten more aggressively, both in time frame and in magnitude, that could put a strain on the market as a whole.

en This is unprecedented in the history of the US, to have had a national disaster of this magnitude with a diaspora of this magnitude.

en Had we not had these soldiers and airmen deployed and they participated in the relief efforts of a storm of this magnitude, we would have had to have outside help anyway. I don't believe there is a state in this county that could have conducted hurricane relief efforts on this scale to adequately respond without help from other states.


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