Mother Nature has been kind to us. Australia could be the world leader within the next couple of years given the geological anomalies present in South Australia,

It has been a very rough year. Mother Nature hasn't done us any favors.

Mother Nature did not cooperate with us at all; we had four major hurricanes and four evacuations. The last hurricane literally put the entire base under two feet of water. There were employees who lost just about everything, but they've managed to get back together to where we are today.

Mother nature really stuck with us on this,

Mount St. Helens certainly reminds us of the power of nature, and we can certainly see that in the evidence of the 1980 eruption that's all around us, ... And here we just have an opportunity to see sort of another chapter in its history and to understand the forces that lie beneath our feet.

Mother Nature is not sweet.