Barbara W. Tuchman Quotes

In the course of three days we`ve gone from a deficit (of rainfall) to over two-and-a-half inches positive.

That`s it. We`re all done.

We didn`t use to be open on Sundays.

(But Bird had a couple of factors working in his favor. First and foremost, he was a businessman with a businessman`s head governing his restaurateur`s heart. He knew exactly what he was getting into when he picked up this Hampden Avenue space -- formerly a buck-a-scoop Chinese buffet of no renown, but with good street visibility and a big parking lot -- and chose it over properties he`d been scouting in Boulder, L.A. and the Bay Area.) I figured I could mitigate my chance of failure to 50 percent here, ... Seriously, I didn`t go into this thinking I had an 80, 90 percent chance of success. I`m not deluded.

We`ve been dry now for a few months, and we`re going into part of what is the driest part of the year (early 2006), and with the winds in the forecast, we`re going to have the same fire conditions they had up in North Texas.

Right now we have an upper-level disturbance tracking across us from the southwest, and that`s responsible for the current round of showers and thunderstorms. (Saturday) night we had a back-door cold front that pushed in at the surface from the northeast, and that`s kind of laid across the area east to west. It`s increasing the coverage of showers and thunderstorms.

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