Why do people live in Florida?
Sep 5th 2004, 1:49 am
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Re: Why do people live in Florida?
"Pete Platis" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> <puzzled> wrote in message
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> > A massive hurricane seems to hit Florida every few years. I really
don't
> > understand why people continue to live there. Don't they get tired of
> having
> > to evacuate every summer, and having their houses destroyed? Someone
> explain
> > this to me.
> >
> Well , hurricanes are one reason but Florida has a host of others
to
> stay away:
> 1. Cockroaches ......LOTS OF EM ( also known as "palmetto bugs" in order
to
> water down the icky factor, don't be fooled though, they are just larger
> roaches......that fly........very well) and a plethora of other pests that
> you WILL come into contact with on a personal level whether you want to or
> not..........this includes scorpions and brown recluse spiders btw, both
> poisonous.
> 2. Staggering humidity ( well not all of florida but anything south of the
> tropical line is brutal)
> 3. Job market isn't so great.
> 4. There ain't no mountains, not a one!. There has basically GOT to be
> something wrong with that. In fact , the highest point in the state is
only
> a measely *345* feet high!.
> 5. Swamps........hell most of the state is a swamp.
> 6. Highest percentage of over 80 year olds behind the wheel of a
> car.......THAT can't be a good thing.
> 7. Alot of white trash, yeah I know that can be found in alot of states.
> Just seems worse in Florida for some reason though.
> 8. Basically Florida has one or 2 seasons, depending on where you live in
> the state. For a 4 season kinda guy like me , not a good thing.
> 9. Alligators coming into contact with people in or near their homes,
> killing or maiming them and/or their pets. It's not a good thing. Been
> happening more frequently too.
> 10. FLORIDIANS ARE VOTING-MACHINE CHALLENGED.
> In case any of you are wondering, yeah I spent a couple of years in that
> awful state.
> Enjoy the remainder of your evening.
Were your years in Florida all spent living under an overpass in a moving
box that was infested with Palmetto bugs?
You forgot to mention the fire ants, the tourists and the 6 month anxiety
attack called "Hurricane Season" that results from the shrill and
unrelenting stream of warnings from the media. None of it does any good
either...
Ü
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> <puzzled> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > A massive hurricane seems to hit Florida every few years. I really
don't
> > understand why people continue to live there. Don't they get tired of
> having
> > to evacuate every summer, and having their houses destroyed? Someone
> explain
> > this to me.
> >
> Well , hurricanes are one reason but Florida has a host of others
to
> stay away:
> 1. Cockroaches ......LOTS OF EM ( also known as "palmetto bugs" in order
to
> water down the icky factor, don't be fooled though, they are just larger
> roaches......that fly........very well) and a plethora of other pests that
> you WILL come into contact with on a personal level whether you want to or
> not..........this includes scorpions and brown recluse spiders btw, both
> poisonous.
> 2. Staggering humidity ( well not all of florida but anything south of the
> tropical line is brutal)
> 3. Job market isn't so great.
> 4. There ain't no mountains, not a one!. There has basically GOT to be
> something wrong with that. In fact , the highest point in the state is
only
> a measely *345* feet high!.
> 5. Swamps........hell most of the state is a swamp.
> 6. Highest percentage of over 80 year olds behind the wheel of a
> car.......THAT can't be a good thing.
> 7. Alot of white trash, yeah I know that can be found in alot of states.
> Just seems worse in Florida for some reason though.
> 8. Basically Florida has one or 2 seasons, depending on where you live in
> the state. For a 4 season kinda guy like me , not a good thing.
> 9. Alligators coming into contact with people in or near their homes,
> killing or maiming them and/or their pets. It's not a good thing. Been
> happening more frequently too.
> 10. FLORIDIANS ARE VOTING-MACHINE CHALLENGED.
> In case any of you are wondering, yeah I spent a couple of years in that
> awful state.
> Enjoy the remainder of your evening.
Were your years in Florida all spent living under an overpass in a moving
box that was infested with Palmetto bugs?
You forgot to mention the fire ants, the tourists and the 6 month anxiety
attack called "Hurricane Season" that results from the shrill and
unrelenting stream of warnings from the media. None of it does any good
either...
Ü
Sep 5th 2004, 2:37 am
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Re: Why do people live in Florida?
"eüphemism" <eü[email protected]> wrote in message
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> <puzzled> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > A massive hurricane seems to hit Florida every few years. I really
don't
> > understand why people continue to live there. Don't they get tired of
> having
> > to evacuate every summer, and having their houses destroyed? Someone
> explain
> > this to me.
> >
> You should probably review the specifics with more care. I lived in
Florida
> for 25 years and endured only one hurricane - it was a Cat-1 wimp named
> "David" in 1979. Andrew was the only really devastating hurricane that
came
> close to where I lived - and it was terrible. It was supposed to hit the
> Palm Beaches, but it never turned north and just went straight in - it
> actually "missed" the most major population areas of south Florida. Had
it
> come in 50 miles further north, the damage could have easily been 10 times
> worse.
> This is the first hurricane in modern history to affect this extensive of
a
> stretch of population. There have never been evacuations involving 2
> million people. This storm is "raking" the coast starting just at Ft.
> Lauderdale all the way up to at least Melbourne. Nasty, nasty, nasty.
> Property values have gone shithouse in Florida over the last four years.
> Maybe this will stop that madness.
> This season will clearly be a modern record for the number of people
> directly impacted by hurricanes. The bad news is that there are three
> months of hurricane season remaining - and there's another storm already
out
> there - by the name of Ivan.
> You may marvel at the stupidity of Floridians as they hunker down during
> these storms. That's okay. They have all snickered at your expense as
they
> sat on the porch, sipping coolers and watching the coverage of those
> relentless winter storms that bury the north every single year. The shots
> of people slowly sliding their cars into poles, walls or other vehicles
was
> always my personal favorite.
> Ü
Hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes and ice storms. They're all useful in
cleaing out the gene pool. The people I least understand are the
Californians that re-build their homes on the side of a mud-sliding
mountain.
Terry Gowan
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> <puzzled> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > A massive hurricane seems to hit Florida every few years. I really
don't
> > understand why people continue to live there. Don't they get tired of
> having
> > to evacuate every summer, and having their houses destroyed? Someone
> explain
> > this to me.
> >
> You should probably review the specifics with more care. I lived in
Florida
> for 25 years and endured only one hurricane - it was a Cat-1 wimp named
> "David" in 1979. Andrew was the only really devastating hurricane that
came
> close to where I lived - and it was terrible. It was supposed to hit the
> Palm Beaches, but it never turned north and just went straight in - it
> actually "missed" the most major population areas of south Florida. Had
it
> come in 50 miles further north, the damage could have easily been 10 times
> worse.
> This is the first hurricane in modern history to affect this extensive of
a
> stretch of population. There have never been evacuations involving 2
> million people. This storm is "raking" the coast starting just at Ft.
> Lauderdale all the way up to at least Melbourne. Nasty, nasty, nasty.
> Property values have gone shithouse in Florida over the last four years.
> Maybe this will stop that madness.
> This season will clearly be a modern record for the number of people
> directly impacted by hurricanes. The bad news is that there are three
> months of hurricane season remaining - and there's another storm already
out
> there - by the name of Ivan.
> You may marvel at the stupidity of Floridians as they hunker down during
> these storms. That's okay. They have all snickered at your expense as
they
> sat on the porch, sipping coolers and watching the coverage of those
> relentless winter storms that bury the north every single year. The shots
> of people slowly sliding their cars into poles, walls or other vehicles
was
> always my personal favorite.
> Ü
Hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes and ice storms. They're all useful in
cleaing out the gene pool. The people I least understand are the
Californians that re-build their homes on the side of a mud-sliding
mountain.
Terry Gowan
Sep 5th 2004, 3:01 am
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Re: Why do people live in Florida?
"Terry Gowan" <tgowan"it'stheoffensivelinestupid"[email protected] t> wrote
in news:[email protected] ink.net:
>> Ü
>
> Hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes and ice storms. They're all useful
> in cleaing out the gene pool. The people I least understand are the
> Californians that re-build their homes on the side of a mud-sliding
> mountain.
>
> Terry Gowan
What do you call the purchase of a home on the east side of a coastal
highway? An investment in future ocean front property.
in news:[email protected] ink.net:
>> Ü
>
> Hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes and ice storms. They're all useful
> in cleaing out the gene pool. The people I least understand are the
> Californians that re-build their homes on the side of a mud-sliding
> mountain.
>
> Terry Gowan
What do you call the purchase of a home on the east side of a coastal
highway? An investment in future ocean front property.
Sep 5th 2004, 3:34 am
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Re: Why do people live in Florida?
<puzzled> Don't they get tired of having to evacuate every summer, and
having their houses destroyed? >>
The Floridians, whose Public Schools rank #45-49 out of 50 states in every
survey of schools conducted since 1845, keep hoping that the corrupt
scumbags who run the County and State governments will finally create
Building Codes that are Hurricane Proof. So they keep coming back for more,
and their houses keep getting blown away.
having their houses destroyed? >>
The Floridians, whose Public Schools rank #45-49 out of 50 states in every
survey of schools conducted since 1845, keep hoping that the corrupt
scumbags who run the County and State governments will finally create
Building Codes that are Hurricane Proof. So they keep coming back for more,
and their houses keep getting blown away.
Sep 5th 2004, 4:44 am
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Re: Why do people live in Florida?
"Terry Gowan" <tgowan"it'stheoffensivelinestupid"[email protected] t> wrote in
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> "eüphemism" <eü[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> Hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes and ice storms. They're all useful in
> cleaing out the gene pool. The people I least understand are the
> Californians that re-build their homes on the side of a mud-sliding
> mountain.
> Terry Gowan
It's not so much where you live but how...
I have as much sympathy as anyone can for people who are hit by disaster...
but when the reporters ran out in the aftermath of Charlie and managed to
find some old retired carny who seemed to have just barely survived Mr.
Toad's Wild Ride as the storm had un-manufactured his double-wide, and this
fellow immediately launched into a tirade against the forecasts that had
called for the storm to have gone ashore slightly north of his last known
position... well, my veins nearly popped.
These people might try reading about the hurricane that hit Connecticut
around '35. The weather forecast predicted a possibility of rain, with
mostly cloudy skies. The storm that hit had been tracked as it passed
Florida, but there was a problem with the "hand off" and the folks in the NE
region had no inkling when that bitch suddenly came roaring ashore. Imagine
the Roy Scheider and the shark chumming scene in Jaws... that's the
reaction.
Whining about a 120 mile "error" in the tracking of a storm that may be
hundreds of miles in diameter has this guy laying pipe for an entirely new
wing in the structure of stupidity. Then again, I never did understand why
the State of Florida even allows mobile homes to be used as domiciles, and
the people who live in those damned things are often the most defiant,
****-you-I-ain't-goin'-to-no-damn-shelter grits ever conceived. They all
have pets and the shelters don't allow 'em, so you know how this story is
going to end.
Nowadays we get weeks of warning, extremely accurate path forecasting, and
two days before the storm is to hit we still have angry people screaming at
terrified Home Depot employees because there's no more plywood anywhere in
the state, let alone in their store.
If the predicted path is a degree off or the storm slows or weakens, then
the forecasters get abused for overreacting or wasting people's time. This
is when people should be emerging from beneath the rubble and applauding in
a show of thanks for all the warnings they've so diligently ignored.
If you're going to build that California house atop a slump-happy cliff, or
especially at the BASE of said mud-slide, at least have the decency to
refrain from ranting blame into some reporter's microphone if you happen to
survive the big storm... Acceptable comments would be along the lines of "I
am a really lucky idiot" or "Don't I just look so stupid?"
Ü
message news:[email protected] ink.net...
> "eüphemism" <eü[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> Hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes and ice storms. They're all useful in
> cleaing out the gene pool. The people I least understand are the
> Californians that re-build their homes on the side of a mud-sliding
> mountain.
> Terry Gowan
It's not so much where you live but how...
I have as much sympathy as anyone can for people who are hit by disaster...
but when the reporters ran out in the aftermath of Charlie and managed to
find some old retired carny who seemed to have just barely survived Mr.
Toad's Wild Ride as the storm had un-manufactured his double-wide, and this
fellow immediately launched into a tirade against the forecasts that had
called for the storm to have gone ashore slightly north of his last known
position... well, my veins nearly popped.
These people might try reading about the hurricane that hit Connecticut
around '35. The weather forecast predicted a possibility of rain, with
mostly cloudy skies. The storm that hit had been tracked as it passed
Florida, but there was a problem with the "hand off" and the folks in the NE
region had no inkling when that bitch suddenly came roaring ashore. Imagine
the Roy Scheider and the shark chumming scene in Jaws... that's the
reaction.
Whining about a 120 mile "error" in the tracking of a storm that may be
hundreds of miles in diameter has this guy laying pipe for an entirely new
wing in the structure of stupidity. Then again, I never did understand why
the State of Florida even allows mobile homes to be used as domiciles, and
the people who live in those damned things are often the most defiant,
****-you-I-ain't-goin'-to-no-damn-shelter grits ever conceived. They all
have pets and the shelters don't allow 'em, so you know how this story is
going to end.
Nowadays we get weeks of warning, extremely accurate path forecasting, and
two days before the storm is to hit we still have angry people screaming at
terrified Home Depot employees because there's no more plywood anywhere in
the state, let alone in their store.
If the predicted path is a degree off or the storm slows or weakens, then
the forecasters get abused for overreacting or wasting people's time. This
is when people should be emerging from beneath the rubble and applauding in
a show of thanks for all the warnings they've so diligently ignored.
If you're going to build that California house atop a slump-happy cliff, or
especially at the BASE of said mud-slide, at least have the decency to
refrain from ranting blame into some reporter's microphone if you happen to
survive the big storm... Acceptable comments would be along the lines of "I
am a really lucky idiot" or "Don't I just look so stupid?"
Ü
Sep 5th 2004, 4:59 am
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Re: Why do people live in Florida?
"ScanMan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Amen to that. I don't care where you live, you have hazards. Umm, that's
all
> part of the wonderful world we live in.
>
> What's that old song, Your Blues Ain't Like Mine...
>
> A Happy Floridian:)
I agree... Connecticut is a hazardous state to drive in, and that's an
everyday occurence. People here only know one speed, FAST. Crazy reckless
drivers. Once in awhile a person from Massachusetts will cross the border,
they're even worse. We call them Massholes!
So I agree, every state has it's hazards. I deal with them everyday on the
road.
Mike R.
news:Hfu_c.1026$x12.87@trnddc05...
> Amen to that. I don't care where you live, you have hazards. Umm, that's
all
> part of the wonderful world we live in.
>
> What's that old song, Your Blues Ain't Like Mine...
>
> A Happy Floridian:)
I agree... Connecticut is a hazardous state to drive in, and that's an
everyday occurence. People here only know one speed, FAST. Crazy reckless
drivers. Once in awhile a person from Massachusetts will cross the border,
they're even worse. We call them Massholes!
So I agree, every state has it's hazards. I deal with them everyday on the
road.
Mike R.
Sep 5th 2004, 5:00 am
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Re: Why do people live in Florida?
"Huricane Crock" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> <puzzled> Don't they get tired of having to evacuate every summer, and
> having their houses destroyed? >>
> The Floridians, whose Public Schools rank #45-49 out of 50 states in every
> survey of schools conducted since 1845, keep hoping that the corrupt
> scumbags who run the County and State governments will finally create
> Building Codes that are Hurricane Proof. So they keep coming back for
more,
> and their houses keep getting blown away.
I'm sensing a lot of anger there, Ted. If you have completed your
manifesto, it's time to get out to the cabin and start licking envelopes.
Ü
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> <puzzled> Don't they get tired of having to evacuate every summer, and
> having their houses destroyed? >>
> The Floridians, whose Public Schools rank #45-49 out of 50 states in every
> survey of schools conducted since 1845, keep hoping that the corrupt
> scumbags who run the County and State governments will finally create
> Building Codes that are Hurricane Proof. So they keep coming back for
more,
> and their houses keep getting blown away.
I'm sensing a lot of anger there, Ted. If you have completed your
manifesto, it's time to get out to the cabin and start licking envelopes.
Ü
Sep 5th 2004, 5:08 am
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Re: Why do people live in Florida?
"eüphemism" <eü[email protected]> wrote in message
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> "Pete Platis" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected] ink.net...
> >
> > <puzzled> wrote in message
> > news:[email protected]...
> > > A massive hurricane seems to hit Florida every few years. I really
> don't
> > > understand why people continue to live there. Don't they get tired of
> > having
> > > to evacuate every summer, and having their houses destroyed? Someone
> > explain
> > > this to me.
> > >
> >
> > Well , hurricanes are one reason but Florida has a host of
others
> to
> > stay away:
> >
> > 1. Cockroaches ......LOTS OF EM ( also known as "palmetto bugs" in
order
> to
> > water down the icky factor, don't be fooled though, they are just larger
> > roaches......that fly........very well) and a plethora of other pests
that
> > you WILL come into contact with on a personal level whether you want to
or
> > not..........this includes scorpions and brown recluse spiders btw, both
> > poisonous.
> >
> > 2. Staggering humidity ( well not all of florida but anything south of
the
> > tropical line is brutal)
> >
> > 3. Job market isn't so great.
> >
> > 4. There ain't no mountains, not a one!. There has basically GOT to be
> > something wrong with that. In fact , the highest point in the state is
> only
> > a measely *345* feet high!.
> >
> > 5. Swamps........hell most of the state is a swamp.
> >
> > 6. Highest percentage of over 80 year olds behind the wheel of a
> > car.......THAT can't be a good thing.
> >
> > 7. Alot of white trash, yeah I know that can be found in alot of states.
> > Just seems worse in Florida for some reason though.
> >
> > 8. Basically Florida has one or 2 seasons, depending on where you live
in
> > the state. For a 4 season kinda guy like me , not a good thing.
> >
> > 9. Alligators coming into contact with people in or near their homes,
> > killing or maiming them and/or their pets. It's not a good thing. Been
> > happening more frequently too.
> >
> >
> > 10. FLORIDIANS ARE VOTING-MACHINE CHALLENGED.
> >
> >
> > In case any of you are wondering, yeah I spent a couple of years in that
> > awful state.
> >
> >
> > Enjoy the remainder of your evening.
> Were your years in Florida all spent living under an overpass in a moving
> box that was infested with Palmetto bugs?
LOL!, actually I spent 6 months on the outskirts of Miami in what you
guys call "Redlands". My uncle is a rich S.O.B. and owns mainly leechie-nut
plantations ( I know it sounds strange but there is HUGE bucks in it) down
there. He's got a friggin ultra modern huge mansion about 1 1/2 clicks
from where his plantations start. Everytime I would turn on the light in the
kitchen the damn palmettos would scatter. It wasn't a matter of filth or
squalor, *everyone* had em in their homes there. Nothing you could do about
it but get used to it. I used to see them flying around outside sometimes
too, disgusting bugs. That's got to be one of the most physically beautiful
and quiet regions of Fla. though. Then I spent 2 years up in Merrit Island.
Not as many of them there but they were still a nuisance. Merit island
sucks btw.
> You forgot to mention the fire ants, the tourists and the 6 month anxiety
> attack called "Hurricane Season" that results from the shrill and
> unrelenting stream of warnings from the media. None of it does any good
> either...
> Ü
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> "Pete Platis" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected] ink.net...
> >
> > <puzzled> wrote in message
> > news:[email protected]...
> > > A massive hurricane seems to hit Florida every few years. I really
> don't
> > > understand why people continue to live there. Don't they get tired of
> > having
> > > to evacuate every summer, and having their houses destroyed? Someone
> > explain
> > > this to me.
> > >
> >
> > Well , hurricanes are one reason but Florida has a host of
others
> to
> > stay away:
> >
> > 1. Cockroaches ......LOTS OF EM ( also known as "palmetto bugs" in
order
> to
> > water down the icky factor, don't be fooled though, they are just larger
> > roaches......that fly........very well) and a plethora of other pests
that
> > you WILL come into contact with on a personal level whether you want to
or
> > not..........this includes scorpions and brown recluse spiders btw, both
> > poisonous.
> >
> > 2. Staggering humidity ( well not all of florida but anything south of
the
> > tropical line is brutal)
> >
> > 3. Job market isn't so great.
> >
> > 4. There ain't no mountains, not a one!. There has basically GOT to be
> > something wrong with that. In fact , the highest point in the state is
> only
> > a measely *345* feet high!.
> >
> > 5. Swamps........hell most of the state is a swamp.
> >
> > 6. Highest percentage of over 80 year olds behind the wheel of a
> > car.......THAT can't be a good thing.
> >
> > 7. Alot of white trash, yeah I know that can be found in alot of states.
> > Just seems worse in Florida for some reason though.
> >
> > 8. Basically Florida has one or 2 seasons, depending on where you live
in
> > the state. For a 4 season kinda guy like me , not a good thing.
> >
> > 9. Alligators coming into contact with people in or near their homes,
> > killing or maiming them and/or their pets. It's not a good thing. Been
> > happening more frequently too.
> >
> >
> > 10. FLORIDIANS ARE VOTING-MACHINE CHALLENGED.
> >
> >
> > In case any of you are wondering, yeah I spent a couple of years in that
> > awful state.
> >
> >
> > Enjoy the remainder of your evening.
> Were your years in Florida all spent living under an overpass in a moving
> box that was infested with Palmetto bugs?
LOL!, actually I spent 6 months on the outskirts of Miami in what you
guys call "Redlands". My uncle is a rich S.O.B. and owns mainly leechie-nut
plantations ( I know it sounds strange but there is HUGE bucks in it) down
there. He's got a friggin ultra modern huge mansion about 1 1/2 clicks
from where his plantations start. Everytime I would turn on the light in the
kitchen the damn palmettos would scatter. It wasn't a matter of filth or
squalor, *everyone* had em in their homes there. Nothing you could do about
it but get used to it. I used to see them flying around outside sometimes
too, disgusting bugs. That's got to be one of the most physically beautiful
and quiet regions of Fla. though. Then I spent 2 years up in Merrit Island.
Not as many of them there but they were still a nuisance. Merit island
sucks btw.
> You forgot to mention the fire ants, the tourists and the 6 month anxiety
> attack called "Hurricane Season" that results from the shrill and
> unrelenting stream of warnings from the media. None of it does any good
> either...
> Ü
Sep 5th 2004, 5:59 am
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Re: Why do people live in Florida?
Pete Platis <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2. Staggering humidity ( well not all of florida but anything south of the
> tropical line is brutal)
I think effect of high humidity is not only slower evaporation, but the
denser air too, it makes cold days colder and hot ones hotter :o(
> 2. Staggering humidity ( well not all of florida but anything south of the
> tropical line is brutal)
I think effect of high humidity is not only slower evaporation, but the
denser air too, it makes cold days colder and hot ones hotter :o(
Sep 5th 2004, 6:04 am
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Re: Why do people live in Florida?
"eüphemism" < If you have completed your manifesto, it's time to get out to
the cabin and start licking envelopes.
I will have to get a job so that I can buy the stamps and envelopes. Not
something like the electrical generator that I hooked up to the bicycle so
that I can generate electric by riding my bike. Just getting together the
$10. for my ISP takes all my time collecting aluminum cans for recycling.
the cabin and start licking envelopes.
I will have to get a job so that I can buy the stamps and envelopes. Not
something like the electrical generator that I hooked up to the bicycle so
that I can generate electric by riding my bike. Just getting together the
$10. for my ISP takes all my time collecting aluminum cans for recycling.
Sep 5th 2004, 6:05 am
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Re: Why do people live in Florida?
"grisgrisfunk" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> "ScanMan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:Hfu_c.1026$x12.87@trnddc05...
> > Amen to that. I don't care where you live, you have hazards. Umm,
that's
> all
> > part of the wonderful world we live in.
> >
> > What's that old song, Your Blues Ain't Like Mine...
> >
> > A Happy Floridian:)
> I agree... Connecticut is a hazardous state to drive in, and that's an
> everyday occurence. People here only know one speed, FAST. Crazy reckless
> drivers. Once in awhile a person from Massachusetts will cross the border,
> they're even worse. We call them Massholes!
> So I agree, every state has it's hazards. I deal with them everyday on
the
> road.
> Mike R.
If I ever meet a person who doesn't think the drivers where he lives are the
absolute worst in the world, I will eat his seat covers.
The drivers in Florida were the worst until I moved out here to Texas.
Apparently all the real morons moved at just the same time I did, because
the insane and incompetent drivers here are clearly now the worst anywhere.
I offer proof:
I have never SEEN such a bunch of red-light-running maniacs in my entire
life. On top of that, drag racing deaths and high-speed police chases are a
daily occurrence. Just since I have been living here, I have seen numerous
police chases caught on live television... two of them are "classics" that
you will now see on every episode of "Scariest Police Chases." Both are from
just the last two years here at DFW... Perhaps you've seen the one with a
maniac who is running from police while driving a forty-foot flat-bed rig,
dragging a fork truck that has fallen from the bed and the sparks and fuel
set the back end of the trailer on fire? Great stuff... Then there's the
one where the fleeing car thief apparently commits suicide when he realizes
he can't escape and so just drives the stolen pickup right into a concrete
support column - doing about 80 mph. Brutal.
The irony is that many Texas drivers are the most courteous you will find.
Those folks are scattered like the occasional raisin in the maniac muffin
mix of DFW traffic. Just the other day, a Comcast Cable worker pulled out a
gun and killed a driver who pissed him off. It wasn't even a big story.
Then there was the guy who threw his ex from the 80' overpass into the
traffic below and then jumped himself. Don't forget the woman who impaled
the bum in her windshield and then left him there to die. She was
immediately upstaged by the Houston wife who was caught on video doing
donuts atop her cheating husband in the parking lot of the hotel where the
affair was held.
I don't care where you live... Texas is nuttier.
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> "ScanMan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:Hfu_c.1026$x12.87@trnddc05...
> > Amen to that. I don't care where you live, you have hazards. Umm,
that's
> all
> > part of the wonderful world we live in.
> >
> > What's that old song, Your Blues Ain't Like Mine...
> >
> > A Happy Floridian:)
> I agree... Connecticut is a hazardous state to drive in, and that's an
> everyday occurence. People here only know one speed, FAST. Crazy reckless
> drivers. Once in awhile a person from Massachusetts will cross the border,
> they're even worse. We call them Massholes!
> So I agree, every state has it's hazards. I deal with them everyday on
the
> road.
> Mike R.
If I ever meet a person who doesn't think the drivers where he lives are the
absolute worst in the world, I will eat his seat covers.
The drivers in Florida were the worst until I moved out here to Texas.
Apparently all the real morons moved at just the same time I did, because
the insane and incompetent drivers here are clearly now the worst anywhere.
I offer proof:
I have never SEEN such a bunch of red-light-running maniacs in my entire
life. On top of that, drag racing deaths and high-speed police chases are a
daily occurrence. Just since I have been living here, I have seen numerous
police chases caught on live television... two of them are "classics" that
you will now see on every episode of "Scariest Police Chases." Both are from
just the last two years here at DFW... Perhaps you've seen the one with a
maniac who is running from police while driving a forty-foot flat-bed rig,
dragging a fork truck that has fallen from the bed and the sparks and fuel
set the back end of the trailer on fire? Great stuff... Then there's the
one where the fleeing car thief apparently commits suicide when he realizes
he can't escape and so just drives the stolen pickup right into a concrete
support column - doing about 80 mph. Brutal.
The irony is that many Texas drivers are the most courteous you will find.
Those folks are scattered like the occasional raisin in the maniac muffin
mix of DFW traffic. Just the other day, a Comcast Cable worker pulled out a
gun and killed a driver who pissed him off. It wasn't even a big story.
Then there was the guy who threw his ex from the 80' overpass into the
traffic below and then jumped himself. Don't forget the woman who impaled
the bum in her windshield and then left him there to die. She was
immediately upstaged by the Houston wife who was caught on video doing
donuts atop her cheating husband in the parking lot of the hotel where the
affair was held.
I don't care where you live... Texas is nuttier.
Ü
Sep 5th 2004, 6:06 am
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Re: Why do people live in Florida?
"Willcox" <join-us@anti_kerry-Yahoo.group> wrote in message
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> Pete Platis <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 2. Staggering humidity ( well not all of florida but anything south of
the
> > tropical line is brutal)
> I think effect of high humidity is not only slower evaporation, but the
> denser air too, it makes cold days colder and hot ones hotter :o(
The McFLT effect?
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> Pete Platis <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 2. Staggering humidity ( well not all of florida but anything south of
the
> > tropical line is brutal)
> I think effect of high humidity is not only slower evaporation, but the
> denser air too, it makes cold days colder and hot ones hotter :o(
The McFLT effect?
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Sep 5th 2004, 6:25 am
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Re: Why do people live in Florida?
On 09/04/2004 8:04 PM Vandeman, committed frenium gestures and then wrote:
>"Peter L" <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:
>
>>Where else would you want them to live? Twister alley? Earthquake
>>country? Buffalo?
>>
>Earthquakes and tornados don't hit the same neighborhoods every few years.
>
Tell that to the folks in Shoreview MN. Hit by tornadoes twice in the
same year.
I also recall seeing on the Weather Channel a story about a town hit by
2 F-4 and one F-2 tornadoes within minutes of each other.
Earthquakes DO hit the same neighborhoods, when they are on or very
close to the fault line.
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>"Peter L" <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:
>
>>Where else would you want them to live? Twister alley? Earthquake
>>country? Buffalo?
>>
>Earthquakes and tornados don't hit the same neighborhoods every few years.
>
Tell that to the folks in Shoreview MN. Hit by tornadoes twice in the
same year.
I also recall seeing on the Weather Channel a story about a town hit by
2 F-4 and one F-2 tornadoes within minutes of each other.
Earthquakes DO hit the same neighborhoods, when they are on or very
close to the fault line.
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Sep 5th 2004, 6:42 am
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Re: Why do people live in Florida?
On 09/04/2004 7:04 PM puzzled, committed frenium gestures and then wrote:
>A massive hurricane seems to hit Florida every few years. I really don't
>understand why people continue to live there. Don't they get tired of having
>to evacuate every summer, and having their houses destroyed? Someone explain
>this to me.
>
Why do people live in Holland? It's below sea level, in some spots 25
feet below. Why do people live in Siberia, even in the Summer there's
perma frost. People have to be buried above ground. Why do Bedouins
live in the desert? Why do the French love Jerry Lewis? Why do Germans
love David Hasselhoff? Why do people eat Leutafisk?
The answer to three of these is that's because it's their home. As for
the French and the Germans, damned if I know. Leutafisk? Maybe as a
change of pace from deer meat?
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>A massive hurricane seems to hit Florida every few years. I really don't
>understand why people continue to live there. Don't they get tired of having
>to evacuate every summer, and having their houses destroyed? Someone explain
>this to me.
>
Why do people live in Holland? It's below sea level, in some spots 25
feet below. Why do people live in Siberia, even in the Summer there's
perma frost. People have to be buried above ground. Why do Bedouins
live in the desert? Why do the French love Jerry Lewis? Why do Germans
love David Hasselhoff? Why do people eat Leutafisk?
The answer to three of these is that's because it's their home. As for
the French and the Germans, damned if I know. Leutafisk? Maybe as a
change of pace from deer meat?
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Sep 5th 2004, 8:10 am
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Re: Why do people live in Florida?
A Sat, 4 Sep 2004 17:05:43 -0700, "Peter L"
<[email protected]> escribió:
> Where else would you want them to live? Twister alley? Earthquake
> country? Buffalo?
Knoxville, TN.
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<[email protected]> escribió:
> Where else would you want them to live? Twister alley? Earthquake
> country? Buffalo?
Knoxville, TN.
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