The rising, moving water impact is something we can't mitigate.

If you haven't prepared in the past because you didn't feel it happened often enough or threatened the area often enough, you really need to rethink that strategy.

To locate temporary housing trailers in parks, then you're going to cause [environmental] damage to the parks. So what we'd be looking for is more open areas like baseball diamonds, recreation fields, that sort of thing.

The state is basically indicating we're probably not going to be able to meet that threshold to ask them to ask the president for a disaster declaration to trigger the individual assistance programs.

I think this will encourage the private sector to look more at their ability to continue operations either through an event like that or be able to get back into business immediately afterwards.

In the '80s, the water would seep up through the cracks when it warmed up and the courts would be slick. Plus, they sloped the courts from the east to the west instead of putting a slight grade on each side so that it would slop either direction. That didn't help with the drainage.