Early planning and preparation is essential to staying safe.

We really have to start planning in January. It is a lot of preparation, but once it's all out here, everybody knows what they're supposed to do. And without those inmates, it would be very difficult to put this all up. They help us out tremendously.

The preparation and planning that we put in place prior to the storm is paying off as we deploy recovery crews and equipment to the areas impacted by Hurricane Rita. Thanks to our advanced planning our recovery crews have the generators, fuel, and spare parts that they need to quickly restore service in areas impacted by the storm.

It is essential that we have a safe and reliable servicing mission to Hubble,

The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the busiest on record with a total of 27 named storms of which 15 became hurricanes, including seven major hurricanes.

Unfortunately, you need a storm to hit and cause a considerable amount of destruction for it to be retired.