With March comes the end of meteorological winter, and hopefully, the end of a very long and very unusual weather system. In the Midwest, we’ve grown weary of negative-degree days. (You know it’s bad when you glance at the thermometer and don’t flinch at -25 degrees). We’ve shoveled and scraped our way out of snowstorms, bundled up against bitter winds and prayed that our water lines and septic systems would endure the absurdly frigid polar vortexes that continue to harass the region.The end of Winter 2013-2014 also means it’s time to pull out the record books and examine how we
