Throughout the record breaking 2004 hurricane season, Eric Cote led an engineering team to Florida to conduct a performance study of various opening protection technologies. The resulting report, Finding the Breaking Point, was hailed by Max Mayfield, then Director of the National Hurricane Center, as a well documented analysis. Craig Fugate, current FEMA Director, and then Director of Florida’s Division of Emergency Management, praised the report before an audience of three thousand emergency management officials as “one of the best reports he had seen on the 2004 hurricane season”.