You can't predict the weather. Hurricanes can move in any direction. If you evacuate two or three times and it saves your life only once, that once is enough.

Weather continues to be the key short term factor determining energy price direction.

Conditions are dry, and rainfall is needed badly to hold ducks in these areas, as cold weather continues to push them south in large numbers.

We do not expect that type of spread today. The weather is more favorable and the ... direction the fire is going, it's getting down in a valley where fuels are not so heavy.

I wish I could predict the weather, but if we don't get any rain around here, it definitely could be a long fire season.

February was almost a carbon copy of January. About the only difference was we had a little bit cooler weather.