Labor Day weekend is not as important from an economic standpoint as it used to be.

We know a lot of people have put their Labor Day plans on hold.

Will we have a traditional Labor Day weekend -- absolutely not, ... No one with any soul will not be tempered by what we are going through.

There is a lot of concern since this is the Labor Day weekend - it's the last chance to get away. People were really concerned about whether there would be fuel available on the way and at their destinations. We are reassuring them that the fuel supply is coming up.

The federal government is basically saying that the price of gas could go up slightly through Labor Day weekend. It could be another couple of cents between now and next weekend. Maybe as much as four or five cents.

There is the misperception that all of coastal Alabama suffered the same type of damage that impacted Mississippi, and that's not the case,