17 Quotes by Bob Johannessen

We're going to count one at a time. It could take days. It could take years. It could take lifetimes.

So many people have been completely displaced. A family that winds up in Buffalo, New York, may not have the wherewithal to claim a body and conduct a burial.

Our goal is to do everything we can under the circumstances to treat each body with as much dignity and respect as we possibly can. We're trying to treat them all as individuals.

We've been getting more than a thousand complaint calls a day for the last week. We can't do much to help out. It's not our program.

We are obligated under federal law to return that money. That is what we did.

We don't know what to expect. It means we're prepared.

The death toll will rise without a doubt.

We knew that several years ago, we had about 250 cases. In the last few years, there has been a little over 100 cases. We're hoping this season won't be any worse than in the past few years.

We could provide prescriptions, but at 100 percent state expense.