El Nino wreaks havoc nationwide. (Pacific Ocean current effect on weather)

Industrial Distribution, April, 1998 by Johnson, John R.

Newton, Mass. -- There are almost 3,000 miles between Lewiston, Maine and San Francisco, but Chuck Feeney and Andy Bullard have both seen the impact of the weather phenomenon El Nino. Ironically, Feeney's East Coast Tool Service in Maine has been hit harder than Bullard's San Francisco-based C.H. Bull Co., located in the very state hit hardest by El Nino.

El Nino has been bearing down on the West Coast with heavy rains since January, causing severe mud slides and major flooding. The weather pattern then typically proceeds across the southern states, where it kicked up major ...