9 Quotes by Bob Odom

I don't know what we're going to do about it,

If it's clean, I'll let it go, ... I'll renew (the ban) every damn month if I have to, I will do whatever I have to to protect the consumer.

St. Bernard is totally underwater, ... It is over the rooftops. I didn't see a lot of houses in St. Bernard.

We don't know if the cotton has been blown out, but most of the storm probably went to the east of the cotton-growing area from Pointe Coupee (Parish) north through the Delta,

there is a lot of water, a lot of damage.

The state average is about 11 inches below normal rainfall. There are very few places in the state that have gotten enough rain this year, putting us in a perilous predicament,

It's hard to remember when losses have been so widespread across almost every crop and in every region of the state,

I've had my people out looking into these claims to make sure there are no violations of the quarantine. I've also had our invasive pest expert contact the stores mentioned in the e-mail (Lowe's and Home Depot), and we've yet to find any validity to the claims in the e-mail.

In my opinion, someone is using the Internet to cause hysteria about a problem that doesn't exist.