The heavy rainfall accompanies a broad warming trend covering the southeastern UnitedStates and reaching into the Midwest, according to the weather service.
Hibbett Sports, Inc. is an operator of sporting goods retail stores in small to mid-sized markets predominately in the Southeast, Southwest, Mid-Atlantic and Midwest regions of the UnitedStates.
Foreign automakers building in the UnitedStates have chosen to locate plants in the South over the upper Midwest because the economics made more sense and taxes and labor costs were a big part of that calculus.