Robert Bea Quotes (7 Quotes)

It didn't hold. There isn't a door, and they've got measly sandbags they're putting in to compensate.

We're still viewing it as cows eating grass, and it isn't.

As that concrete is breaking, it will emit sounds that probably to them sounded very much like muffled gunshots. Then they would have these very large booming sounds as that barge was slamming against the walls. Those residents probably heard what they heard, but they came to the wrong conclusion. We didn't see any signs of explosive action.

The thinking was, those levees are just protecting farmland. But time goes on. We continue to develop, but we are dragging this 1.3 with us. We upgrade the levee system after (Hurricane) Betsy with better flood protection, but that 1.3 is still there. History has moved, but the corps hasn't.

The water level in the canals wasn't that high when the floodwalls breached. We had a premature failure of the defense system.

We would rather invest a little money now than pay 10 to 100 times that amount in the future.

It's like the snooze alarm on the alarm clock. You can only turn it off so many times before you get in trouble.