Coast Quote by Jo Bonner

There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed…

— Harry Connick, Jr

Quite clearly this is a human disaster of enormous proportions. We have tens and tens of thousands of displaced people across the United States,.

— Anne McLellan

I've been through natural disasters. I lived down in Miami and was down there for Hurricane Andrew which was a Category 5. There were…

— Dwayne Johnson

I am very aware that there are many of you who have friends and loved ones in the areas affected by this storm who…

— Jo Bonner

Very large scale disasters, especially those that have occurred in the developing world, have very long recovery periods.

— Irwin Redlener

Disaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of being on the record makes it appear continuous and ubiquitous…

— Barbara Tuchman

Nearly two weeks have passed since Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Gulf Coast, and while we are still dealing with the tremendous devastation…

— Jo Bonner

Towns and cities throughout the United States have opened their hearts and homes to thousands of families displaced from their homes as a result…

— Jo Bonner

How impossible it is for us to imagine ourselves victims of disaster. We suffer for the poor people who were thrown into the sea…

— Vivienne Westwood

Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.

— Jim Wallis

We have witnessed the most extraordinary devastation. The magnitude of the situation is unbelievable. It's just heartbreaking.

— Kathleen Blanco

And if there is one thing we can be sure of, it’s that extreme weather events like Superstorm Sandy, Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines,…

— Naomi Klein