The first thing you learn when you live close enough to the ground—whether that ground is in Newell, Iowa, or at the foot of the Grand Canyon—is that nothing stays put.
The first thing you learn when you spend decades tracking the numbers—the BLS releases, the payroll reports, the county employment series—is that nothing is ever simple.
The Capital Region is currently operating under a series of localized states of emergency, but what these declarations really signify is nothing more than a temporary admission of failure.
The scope of weather disruption defining the week, from a tropical storm making landfall on the Gulf Coast to widespread flash floods impacting parts of the Mid-Atlantic, shows atmospheric instability across the entire Eastern Seaboard.