You are absolutely right. Actually, as I flew over Lake Michigan today I didn't see any open water there either. The latest figure I saw, about a week ago, was 88% coverage across the Great Lakes. It went down a little bit, but with days like today the coverage is becoming greater, as well. It has been very cold and very snowy.
Just before our meeting, I was on the phone with Mayor Keith Hobbs of Thunder Bay. First of all, he said it was minus 40 there. This is going to be a very serious issue. We've had six feet of snow in Chicago this year, and most of it has stayed.
What is going to be critical is what happens in the springtime if we get a really strong warming trend right away. The real killer—and Mr. D'Andrea probably knows this better than I do—is when there's still snow on the ground and the ground is frozen, and you get a rainfall. The volumes of water that have to be dealt with are just phenomenal.
There isn't a whole lot that can be done right now other than knowing that it's going to happen. Just as an example of the way we try to operate, after Thunder Bay was hit so hard and their waste water treatment plant got knocked out completely, the mayor of Grand Rapids was in touch with the mayor of Thunder Bay. They had bad floods in Grand Rapids, Michigan, last spring. It wasn't a very high-tech approach, but basically people from all over the city came together and sandbagged around the waste water treatment plant. We can't do that long term.