It's been a cumulative effect. Mother Nature is not able to spread its wings like it used to.

Funding delays elongate the project. We're always up against a clock with Mother Nature.

They'll stand up to anything Mother Nature can throw at them, but they won't stand up to a snow plow.

We have an ongoing challenge to get budget support for corps projects. Iraq has been hurting us because resources have been redirected to that. And now we have New Orleans. The money has to come from somewhere. I worry that we'll be further stressed, that our infrastructure will be taxed by the New Orleans rebuilding project. I have no idea what New Orleans will do to us.

Mother Nature is not sweet.

Seems you can't outsmart Mother Nature.