Weather Confounds Rome

                            Disaster strikes in the midst of political turmoil

Ides of march, why didn’t anyone listen? Such a silly prediction came true. No one thought it could happen but thus the truth could be absolute. A tempest the most terrible ye has seen has hit and the rest of the week is looking like more of the same weather to match the Roman people’s moods. All sorts of mysterious things have been happening leading up to the eventful storm that hit last night, and while some think it is just the clouds, some believe it is more. We talked to a citizen who believed the storm has some significance. Cassius says "yesterday the bird of night did sit even at noon-day upon the market-place, hooting and shrieking. When these prodigies do so conjointly meet, let not men say 'these are their reasons; they are natural'; for, I believe, they are portentous things unto the climate that they point upon." So, are men construing things after their fashion or has the world, too saucy with the gods, incensed them to send destruction?