You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans.

You know, we lose more homes every year to flooding than we do any other event in America.

The preparations are what they are. We're here. The storm is coming. We are as best prepared as we can be as the eye of the storm approaches.

America needs to get over it. We can't control everything. We can't control the storms.

You cannot depend on a sandbag dike to save your life. You put it up to try to save your property.

The National Guard has served America as both a wartime force and the first military responders in times of domestic crisis. Hundreds of times each year, the nation's governors call upon their Guard troops to respond to fires, floods, hurricanes and other natural disasters.

People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature.