Attics Quotes

You know we've been going in getting people out of attics, off the top of roofs and trees. We've got to keep doing that. We think the worst places have been rescued, but we've got a lot we still can't get to. - Jim Hunt

Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering? - Arnold Wesker

We know people were up in the attics hollering for help. - Walter Boasso

We are asking for people to rummage through their attics and storerooms to see if they have anything which could be of interest to us. - Michael Davies

They heard people taking their last breaths. They heard people holding children up in the peak of the attics, and dropping children in the water and watching them drown. - Steve Gordon

There's stories all over that place that are just going to be horrifying, ... As soon as the water recedes, that town is going to find dead bodies everywhere in the attics. It's just sad. It's sad they forgot them out there and it's sad the levee broke. - David Sibley

There was a four- or five-day process when they were on their rooftops, sleeping on roofs and in attics trying to escape, ... Once it hit, you don't have any communicationno cellphone, no e-mail, anythingwith your family. It took five or six days just to find some of my close family. They're OK right now, and we're grateful. Now it's a matter of helping people who are less fortunate than my family. - Avery Johnson

The people were very appreciative... A lot of people stayed...Some went to their attics when the water reached them and had six inches of breathing room. One guy told me he was holding his sister up until he couldn't hold her anymore, and he lost her. - Harry Morgan

My biggest concern is the loss of life. We have a lot of people down there hiding in their attics, and I don't know if we will get to them fast enough. - Walter Boasso