Flooding Quotes

“Jackson asked, "Where'd the water come from in your house?"

"A pipe." Then he explained to Jackson, "Water travels in pipes.”
― Kresley Cole, Poison Princess

“Life is very tough and fragile at the same time, it never backs down or surrenders, but will break open to reveal its beauty and ugliness. As a evening primrose that blooms in the flooding moonlight, just before being trampled upon underfoot by the four-legged frost of the night.”
― Anthony Liccione

“You know, they straightened out the Mississippi River in places, to make room for houses and livable acreage. Occasionally the river floods these places. “Floods” is the word they use, but in fact it is not flooding; it is remembering. Remembering where it used to be.”
― Toni Morrison

“Gonna be a real frog-strangling turd-floater.”
― Charles Martin, Chasing Fireflies

“The rain thundered down so heavily that Pritam could imagine that space itself was made of water and was pouring through rents in the sky's tired fabric.”
― Stephen M. Irwin, The Dead Path

“I would not live near to a river.”
― Steven Magee

“I was seeing a lot of articles on how good the Florida Babcock Ranch Solar Power Farm was in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian, but none on the DeSoto Solar Farm which was the biggest solar farm in the USA in 2009, opened by President Obama.”
― Steven Magee

“Being miles inland in Florida was no protection from the Hurricane Ian storm surge and river flooding.”
― Steven Magee

“Some Florida retirees were financially ruined by hurricane Ian.”
― Steven Magee

“Stray pets were a problem after hurricane Ian.”
― Steven Magee

“Storm surge was the big killer during hurricane Ian.”
― Steven Magee

“Poor Florida!”
― Steven Magee

“Florida and hurricanes are like twins!”
― Steven Magee

“Hurricane Ian will be remembered for its massive loss of life from storm surge and flooding.”
― Steven Magee

“So many dead!”
― Steven Magee

“If I had stayed working in Florida, there is a high probability I would have died in hurricane Ian.”
― Steven Magee

“Honesty, that would be nice!”
― Steven Magee

“Learn from Florida’s mistakes!”
― Steven Magee

“Florida as a retirement community may have ended with hurricane Ian.”
― Steven Magee

“Evacuate or possibly die?”
― Steven Magee

“Death, destruction and financial loss.”
― Steven Magee

“Hurricane Ian, why were you so mean?”
― Steven Magee

“If you want to disappear bodies, you bring the military in.”
― Steven Magee

“Water will drive human migrations during climate change.”
― Steven Magee

“Hurricane Ian’s flooding trashed the interiors and belongings of many homes.”
― Steven Magee

“The hurricane Ian aftermath left many people unemployed.”
― Steven Magee

“Flooding does not appear to be making the gasoline cars go on fire like the electric cars do.”
― Steven Magee

“Florida roads were littered with sinkholes after hurricane Ian.”
― Steven Magee

“After four weeks, things were improving in the Florida hurricane Ian disaster.”
― Steven Magee

“It rained on the day of my dad’s funeral. Folk here are born with waterproof skin and a double set of eyelids like a trout. But I’ve seen nowt like it before. Wherever the ground dipped it turned to a puddle, and wherever there was a puddle it turned to a lake and the lakes turned to seas and every road became a river and the fields became swimming baths and the sheep became swimmers and the village of Bewrith became Venice and every window was now a door
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and every car was now a stepping stone and after three hundred years of standing, Bewrith Bridge was torn out its banks and vil- lagers came to wave it off down the River Pishon like the launch of some royal ship only they drank from bottles of whisky instead of smashing them.”
― Scott Preston, The Borrowed Hills