the website of sugar loaf in which they have the video we are showing here. these are videos they put up there to show what the skiing is like. it s not about today s conditions but what the mountain is like. it s in a section of maine that a lot of people go to. it s a very, very popular for those who want to ski and care about skiing. especially after this time of year, and after snowstorms, lots of people turning out, and this would be the exact week when huge crowds would be turning out to major skiing conditions and major skiing sites. the second highest peak in all of maine. the only lift service above tree line skiing in the east. vertical drop of 2,820 feet. obviously, the focus is on safety and security, and it s also important to keep in mind that major attractions like this do have backup plans and have people trained in emergency work and people who go through
specially designed to collect oil off the surface, skimming it off the surface, ordering those boats back into port until the sea calms down. the fact is you don t need a tropical storm to stymie the skimming. long before the wind picked up here, it was already tangled in red tape. we are keeping them honest. people down here demanding to know where is the sense of urgency? i mean, we saw the exact same thing during katrina. emergency work hampered by people operating from the non-emergency rule books. rules that made sense or might make sense or could have made sense in normal times that seem to make no sense now. take these skimmers, for instance. there are 433 of them according to the local paper in new orleans. according to the paper, there are more than 1,600 skimmers available elsewhere in the continental united states. they need every skimmer they can get down here so why not use some of those? well, turns out the 1990 oil pollution act requires many of them to be standing by in