We see these storms a little differently after Katrina. We all realize that no matter how safe you feel . . . you have to take it seriously, you have to plan.

It is a tempest in a tumbler of water. [Fr., C'est une tempete dans un verre d'eau.]

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

This was definitely one of the bigger storms of the year in terms of total snowfall.

During hurricane season our operations personnel are constantly monitoring storms in the Atlantic. The Friday before the storm hit, we were tracking the storm.

We had storms come through and we had 25 mile per hour winds. I went down to the lower lake and with that wind and the chop on the water, I couldn't see anything.