Corcoran honored as 2011 Realtor of the Year - Gulf Coast Newspapers

It was a tragedy, 11 people lost their lives, but what possible effect could that have on us,’” he said. None of us really understood at that time what kind of impact it was going to have. Essentially we were told, ‘Bad things happen to good people. They’re called hurricanes, earthquakes and tornadoes. This is something that happened where someone was responsible for it and we knew who that was and they were going to pay for it, not us. Bob Riley, who was busy himself with meetings in the area, the effort became easier, Corcoran said, when they spotted Riley coming out of the hotel where they had just come out of their meeting. And thanks to the efforts of the Association of Realtors and others, those same concerns were later expressed in front of the cameras by members of Congress. McKinney, he said, gave an impassioned speech that brought home many of their concerns. The lessons we learned from the oil spill were the same lessons we learned along the Mississippi Gulf Coast after Katrina. One of the biggest lessons we learned is that we have to work together to ensure, not only recovery but being prepared for anything that might happen in the future. Realtors