14 Quotes by Kurt Pickering

I don't think we've ever talked about pre-positioning food caches before.

Last night (Monday) we were asked if we could take more. We told them we could take 3,000 from Texas.

My previous director used to say he would immediately file two forms in the event of a major earthquake. The first would be the request to FEMA for a disaster declaration, the second his retirement papers.

Unfortunately when Mother Nature gets mean, there's nothing that can be done.

The decision was made by the director of operations. I think it was a pretty good catch.

We have misgivings about it. We'd like to stay out of that.

When we look at county maps, we have four sightings in 12 counties in a short enough period of time that it is highly doubtful it was all one twister. We're getting damage reports from 28 different counties.

Some folks are moving out into communities and putting down some roots.

The best I can figure out, this is the most loss of life we've had in a single weather event in one day.