If your efforts are sometimes greeted with indifference, don't lose heart. The sun puts on a wonderful show at daybreak, yet most of the people in the audience go on sleeping.

The data we get from that and over the next few days will go toward justification for a presidential disaster declaration.

It is almost like giving birth to a newborn baby. I've seen this all before, but only in my mind. And now it's real.

Being from Baltimore, I'm a crab cake snob, and I'm very particular on where I eat my crab cakes.

In light of the fact that we could have another rainy event, we wanted to target the bridge crossings and get rid of the debris that's there so that if we do have more rain, the debris doesn't cause debris dams, have water bypass over the roads and flood residential areas.

In dollar terms, we're going down.