Bad weather is usually good business for companies that help people repair and rebuild. On the flip side, sales can suffer when the skies remain clear. So it was for Home Depot, which said Tuesday that October's better-than-expected weather meant fewer shoppers came into its stores to spend in the third quarter."Our results were below our expectation, largely due to a lack of storms relative to historic norms," the retailer's head of merchandising, Billy Bastek, said on the third-quarter earnings call. An ...