In Like A Lion...

Each year there is a friendly reminder of the season we say goodbye to winter before embracing the spring. The month of March carries some interesting connotations which will normally tie into the idea of a form of 'Madness' in the form of College Basketball. The same can be had with another avenue-the weather!

What is it about the third month of the year that brings out the very best...and the very worst...of what the wrath of nature can promote? One day a nice sunny pristine afternoon of sunshine, in 24 hours a 40 degree temperature drop and some of the gnarliest, stormiest, and ugliest of cloud-filled angst...

Dallas Texas was under a severe weather alert most of the day Monday. As I now am well into my tenth year ion Lone Star country, I am more blown away by how much harder the state of Oklahoma gets the brunt of the damage.

The pattern remains the same for the most part. Either the wall of dark clouds make the trek from the west or northwest of Colorado and make for a collision course with the warmer air masses of Texas heading south to Mexico. Sometimes it's a cold front that finds its way straight south from our Sooner friend from the north. When that tinge of green/gray comes by way of Dallas, we got trouble.

Having driven through three tornadoes in my lifetime, there's nothing funny about Mother Nature. So weird to see one side of the flat landscape clear and quiet while the other side is a mass compass of scary looking soup gone angry. Crazy happens.

All of this was running through my head as I was making the drive to Lewisville Monday night. I saw the serene to the west and the angry to the east. It sent a chill through me. It also was a reminder about the interesting personality this month, a month I turn a year older, has unto itself...

Monday night the Madness was weather related. In two weeks it will be all about that sheet of paper...and a hope of being successful in the name of bracketology.

Over and out in Big D

Mr. Will