positive

"It's a bit corny, I know, but people come here perhaps not feeling the most positive but they walk away with a smile on their face," he added.

There was a more positive exchange on the 16th green.

“The effect on sales will shift from positive to negative,” Thomas King, president of the data and analytics division at J.D.Power, said in a report this week.

On the positive side, Pinter said, California would be relatively well-positioned to set up its own state flood insurance program, if necessary.

"I'm just really, really emotional in a good way, a positive way," he said.