Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.

Here's the advice Sir William Osler gave the students at Yale: "Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day absorb all your interest, energy and enthusiasm. The best preparation for tomorrow is to live today superbly well."

Long-term forecasts are based on analogies of similar weather conditions recorded in the past. But we have not seen anything like this before.

There has been a decline over the past four to five years because the weather has not been good to us.

What's gone and what's past help should be past grief

What we're getting in the way of help from the weather up here, we're not getting down there (in Texas).