That's no lie. Just last year here in Alabama - Saturday, February 28th, to be exact - it was 70 degrees at 8 a.m., and two tornadoes hit in Lee County. I was only about five miles from the F-2 twister in Salem and couldn't see it through the heavy rain, but I could tell some bad voodoo was going down just to my south - it was like a black curtain had dropped down out of the sky and covered the area. The next afternoon, a cold front pushed in, dropped the temperature forty degrees, and the wraparound moisture dumped over 5" of snow on us. I drove through Salem the next morning - there were roofs missing, buildings destroyed, hundreds of trees snapped off at mid-trunk like matchsticks or flattened like in the Tunguska fireball of 1908, and all of it covered in snow. It was an eight-mile long swath that looked like Hell had frozen over. We went through all four seasons in a 36 hour period. It was surreal. Now, after having made it through the coldest first half of January on record for these parts, we're back up in the 60's, and girding our loins for a possible one-two punch of severe weather tomorrow night and Thursday. Springtime weather is always more fun than a barrel of monkeys down here in Dixie, but I have a feeling that this coming March and April ought to be real bell ringers. LOL
