This is a winter festival and, Katrina aside, Mother Nature has as much to say about turnout as New Orleans.

Mother Nature is not sweet.

Out of sensitivity to the people of New Orleans.

That's something that we were talking about doing anyway. This will provide people with something extra to do on either end of the core area of the parade zone.

We started working very seriously with police and the city. We are spending more money on security and clean up.

Nothing like this has ever happened before. There's no model for it. We could have 10 more people or we could have 10,000 more.