New In The Lexicon: De-Water
Tuesday, September 06, 2005 - 04:17 PM
You might say after Hurricane Katrina that we need a new vocabulary to describe the kind of destruction that happened there. What we got, though, was a new word for the verbs dry out, dehydrate, or just plain dry: de-water.
Some examples:
Michael Rogers, Army Corps of Engineers, on CNN, 9/5/05: Sir, that's an important stream of water. It may not be a significant amount, but that water is (INAUDIBLE) we are using, removing, to help us de-water the power plant, the pumping plant you see just behind that. And that pumping plant is key to us being able to de-water the city of New Orleans.
Michael Chertoff, Fox News, 9/4/05:
'We are not going to be able to have people sitting in houses in New Orleans for weeks and months while we de-water and clean this city ... The flooded places, when they're de-watered, are not going to be sanitary.'
Brigadier General Robert Crear, 9/2/05: It will be 36 to 80 days to be done with the de-watering
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