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It's been a topic of much conversation lately why do we Floridians live in a state that keeps getting hit with hurricanes?
That's why!
A perfect day.
We get a lot of them, actually. Starting about this time of year and running into late spring, Florida has gorgeous weather.
In my 27 years of living here we've only had three storms that were noteworthy; here on the Sun Coast. The typical named storm isn't as bad as a line of thunderstorms in the Midwest. The Midwest gets one of those, at least, once a week. Most of the named storms that hit Florida aren't above Cat 1, and people don't realize just how localized the damage is from bigger storms.
Ian devastated where it hit. We didn't even lose power. Milton was bad in Sarasota, but not so much here a mere 60 miles away. Helene was far worse for North Carolina than here, despite being much further inland than I am!
In those same 27 years, the Midwest has gotten 27 winters. The fun parts of winter are far exceeded by the bad parts and I am sick of the bad parts. Yet I still own an ice scraper for my car...
In Governor DeSantis' recent press conference, he pointed out that Florida took no hurricane hits from 2005 to 2016. No tropical storms, either.
ReplyDeleteYou can live without electricity or gas after a hurricane as long as you have access to food and fresh water and aren't directly in flooded water. Lose power, which is required for a lot of newer gas systems, during a blizzard and you're toast since modern fireplaces aren't designed to heat as they are more for decoration even in the North.