rockbilly, what you say is the truth. Fortunes have been made and lost according to the weather. We here in North Central Texas, just came off a drought that lasted close to three years (or was it five?). I watched corn come up in the fields to the height of about 3 ft. and then just fall over. I figured the farmers would suffer badly, but apparently not, as the government stepped in, and the new pickups (with leather interior) and the Cadillacs, and Lincolns are just as plentiful.
But that's another thread. Anyway, when it finally started raining again, it kept raining, and Lake Texoma, north of me 20 miles, went over the spillway for the third time in about 60 years.
Things such as the weather, ebb and flow, regardless of our wishes, and we adapt, or not. If one reads the WORD, Ecclesiastes, is not only humbling, but informative on such matters.