we experienced a very dry mid-winter last year, and that is something we never anticipated.

It just enables the counties not to absorb the mid-year budget hit that they had not anticipated.

We've just had an abnormally dry winter.

This is perfect. That is exactly what I anticipated they would find today.

We just didn't have any rainfall all year long. It's been mighty dry here.

The 1940s through the 1960s experienced an above-average number of major hurricanes, while the 1970s into the mid-1990s averaged fewer hurricanes.