Use history to prepare for the future

Floyd the barber told Andy Taylor that Calvin Coolidge was the one who said 'everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it'. If my memory is right Andy responded that Calvin didn't say everything.

Weather has become a not item in the news over the years. I can remember watching the evening news and weather would be the last thing we heard about; kind of like an after thought. Now you see a lot of television news coverage lead off with the weather.

Over the past few weeks as we watched Tropical Storm Gordon come through the Gulf of Mexico with Hurricane Florence an...