People save themselves and others a lot of grief and a lot of heartache if they follow simple rules during flooding and high runoff.

It really is an ongoing effort to improve the security of our state's critical infrastructure and utilities. It's nice to have a federal grant program that allows us to do that.

As soon as we get that, we're ready to get everything going.

They really range all over the map. Some people are very distressed, and there's this outpouring of grief. For other people, it's kind of an adventure. It's a mix of these horrible things and these mundane things.

I cannot imagine the grief and the horror that the people in Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana are undergoing,

When people are in grief, making something like this is the last thing on their minds.