16 Quotes by Jack Stephens

You can imagine the extraordinary force that a billion gallons of water has coming over these levees, ... It happened on a seven-mile stretch simultaneously.

Fishermen have been selling their land to sportsmen for years, ... The storm is only going to speed that up by giving people another reason to leave.

They have no place to live; they're separated from their families; and they don't know how much longer they'll have a job, ... We have to give them some reason to stick it out.

It was fun in the beginning. Now it's a major chore. But if I weren't doing it, I would have been out of business years ago.

I never felt threatened and I walked around the entire place, ... I was talking to people, administering first aid. But people were ready to get out of there. The conditions were horrid and horrible. The stench was unbearable. If we had electricity, it would have been so much better.

He came in and stayed with us, and slept with us, ... I didn't expect that.

For people to come home to that damage and then to make that gruesome discovery - that doesn't seem fair to me.