If you look at a time series, '98 just stands out so dramatically. Then you look at the past several years and you see it creeping back up. It's quite striking.

We've had these type of events in the past. We're going to have them in the future.

We're somewhat surprised by how similar [the analyses] are.

Sunnyside has been the team to beat over the past five years, and we wanted to make sure we got this game on the schedule. This will be a good test for us.

This is very timely. It's way past needed. ... (Some parts of the city) are absolutely a bad sight to look at.

Without the hurricanes, it could have been 14 consecutive months of below-normal rainfall. This past March was one of the driest - if not the driest - Marches on record for a large portion of South Louisiana, and this extremely dry spring weather has persisted through the first half of April, as well.