The temperatures will affect how quickly our linemen are able to work. The wind itself is going to be blowing those tree branches around, that are already in a very precarious position.

We think this outage will be transparent to most of our customers. We decided to do the work now because failure of this equipment could potentially cause problems at a less convenient time.

The combined company will be stronger from a distribution and product standpoint. Nevertheless, we do not expect the merger of the two companies to alleviate the pressures from low fixed product sales and the challenging interest-rate environment.

You will feel the difference. It does work.

If the city will work with me, we can rebuild.

We will continue to work with landowners to extend some near-term options and develop other contingent-funding scenarios.