It's one thing to build in the plains of Kansas, but it's another thing to go into a metropolitan area.

Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call "out there."

The real important issue here is that when it got to the metropolitan area, it was weaker, ... They were fortunate in that they were on the west side and the winds may not have been quite strong enough to top the levees.

The real important issue here is that when it got to the metropolitan area, it was weaker. They were fortunate in that they were on the west side and the winds may not have been quite strong enough to top the levees.

The parts of the metropolitan area are so interdependent, in so many ways, that nobody is being helped by keeping those divisions going.

Now that they've got their footprint in that area, they're starting to build on it.