Reply #2: Or possibly dumbstruck by your assertion that

[ben_meyers]

"wild weather" has never happened before.

The only thing predictable about the weather is its unpredictability.
The only thing normal about the weather is that so called "severe weather" happens all the time.
Man has defined what is "normal". Tornadoes, hurricanes, blizzards, cold waves, heat waves, floods, droughts and anything else you can point to are normal. They have happened all the time. There is no average weather anywhere on the globe.

Yesterdays outbreak of storms is not unusual or to be unexpected.

Try this on for size.

February 19, 1884: The Great Southern Tornado Outbreak
Over 60 tornadoes swept the entire Southeast. At least 170 were killed, possibly more. Considered the largest outbreak until the Super Outbreak of April 3-4, 1974.

http://www.ezl.com/~fireball/Disaster15.htm

Then ask yourself, "What was going on in 1884 that caused an outbreak of "wild weather"?