7 Quotes by Elizabeth English


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    Pam simulated a large amount of water being swept from Lake Pontchartrain over the levee into the bowl of new Orleans,

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    I think the teachers are just as excited as the kids. Many teachers told me they had difficulty sleeping because they had first day jitters.

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    Unfortunately, so much of it is exactly what happened. We predicted that people would be trapped in their houses. Sitting on roofs,

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    When the wind speed began to go down the storm surge did not dissipate. ... There was essentially a lot more momentum in the water than there was in the wind.

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    You can't strengthen every part of it in exactly the same way at the same time. And, like a chain, it suffers from the weakest link.

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