Inexperience? What do you mean? Well, we do it with volunteers, and instead of driving two nails they would drive ten nails.

Is NOAA working with HUD and other agencies to tie the science and the coastal management and the community preparations together?

More hurricanes have ripped through my home state of Florida than any other state in the Nation.

What are you going to do if the G4 is down for maintenance or because of an accident?

Can you share with us why this might be?

And you might discuss whether or not you think we're making progress on reducing hurricane impacts.

All of your written statements will be entered into the record, so that we have that basis of information.

Evacuation is absolutely critical, particularly to lessen and mitigate any impact on people and any possibility of human deaths.

Wilma actually hit an unurbanized part of the State. The counterclockwise winds hit the coast actually down there in the Ten Thousand Islands.

So, you're not worried about the column of air from the max altitude of the C-130 and the P-3?

I'll never forget, in the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew, in 1992, in which all of the Habitat for Humanity homes survived, when so many of those other subdivisions were just blown away.