The day was glorious, the sun climbing toward its zenith, moths and butterflies spangling the flower gardens, the breeze sweetened with a scent of the South.
There were winter storm warnings in 11 states yesterday, some of them taking no chances with the memory still fresh of ice storms that shut down traffic in Atlanta and the Carolinas last year.
At one point, when weather finally cleared, an errant cargo ship strayed into the danger zone on the Eastern Range, a patch of restricted waters on the Atlantic Ocean over which rocket launches fly.