In a world where the dead are returning to life, 'trouble' loses much of its meaning. ... Land of the Dead.

because the reality of things going on around me is more interesting than the fantasies of the world I work in.

The trouble we've seen in the last six to 12 months is land prices have just gone through the roof.

If we have trouble with cell phones and land-line telephones, they serve as our communications element, ... We lost cells and land lines in the 2001 tornado, so we used them as our primary form of communications, with radios in different vehicles.

We know how much land we need and where we need to be, meaning not too far from the major roads. But when it's going to happen depends on the economy. The Legislature can't appropriate funding it doesn't have. We're still trying to get a more firm financial foundation.

If we don't get 100 percent of the land donated for the road by August we'll be in trouble. We have from 55 percent to 70 percent donated.