No other city really provided the resources and assistance Houston has. If not for Mayor [Bill] White and his administration, a lot of us would've been lost.

It's just the nature of the beast.

We are going to take care of some issues. These issues are coming from the people, not from the top down.

That's probably going to be a good scenario, another good feeling. I played against him when I was in Houston and kind of took him out. I'm looking to take him out again.

We had prepared for a direct hit on the Sam Houston, but the storm side-stepped them and hit the Sabine and Angelina harder than we anticipated.

TCEQ is interested not only in characterizing the ozone above Houston, but also in finding out where that ozone ends up. To that end, they've given us extra money to launch about 15 percent of our balloons from sites that are 80-100 miles from the city.