When we take a look at how far the ripple will travel, from vendors, the local restaurants, local economy, hotels and everything that feeds off of those, it will have a big impact.

Look for it in the earnings of discount retailers, restaurants and travel sectors. Start to look for GDP to be impacted, earnings in the third and fourth quarters, especially now because we're starting to approach the home heating season. This is not good. We haven't seen anything like this in the better part of 25 years, where you start to have people thinking about gas lines.

We continue to receive tremendous interest from retailers and restaurants to locate at Gulf Coast Town Center.

Efforts to consolidate the number of vendors or to provide middleware platforms that consolidate these systems will be important components of risk projects for the next few years.

Relatively small additional efficiencies in travel and reductions in congestion have significant impacts on the economy.

The travel and tourism industry worldwide is a $6 trillion economy.