Who's going to the Florida show?

[Mina]

I will be going. It will be my first show.

[gonzo]

Originally Posted by Mina

I will be going. It will be my first show.

We will be hanging where the cool kids arent.

[JoesHO]

Originally Posted by gonzo

We will be hanging where the cool kids arent.

But the rainman will be in attendance .

[Cleo]

I'm guessing that the week of the show will be when we get hit by the next major hurricane. Should be a really great view of the night sky without all that annoying light pollution from the pitch black hotel. Sky really was beautiful after Wilma hit. It was a moonless night and not a cloud in the sky. My backyard was so dark that you couldn't even see a few feet in front of you. It was cool night with little humidity and the sky was amazingly beautiful spoiled only by the roar of generators.

I'll be at the show unless I'm home tending to a generator in topical hell.

[softball]

Originally Posted by Cleo

I'm guessing that the week of the show will be when we get hit by the next major hurricane. Should be a really great view of the night sky without all that annoying light pollution from the pitch black hotel. Sky really was beautiful after Wilma hit. It was a moonless night and not a cloud in the sky. My backyard was so dark that you couldn't even see a few feet in front of you. It was cool night with little humidity and the sky was amazingly beautiful spoiled only by the roar of generators.

I'll be at the show unless I'm home tending to a generator in topical hell.

Actually, I have never understood why folks live in such a harsh climate. Hell if I knew the weather was gonna kick the shit out of me every year, I would move on. Is it economics?

[Cleo]

Originally Posted by rhetorical

Actually, I have never understood why folks live in such a harsh climate. Hell if I knew the weather was gonna kick the shit out of me every year, I would move on. Is it economics?

Guess it is your definition of harsh.

Lived in northern California as a young adult and we had fire storms in the dry season and then mud slides in the rainy season not to mention you just never knew when the next big quake would hit.

Lived in Pennsylvania as a child and remember being snowed in and temps of -20 F that could kill. I fucking hate the cold and snow.

Neighbor has family in Oklahoma and they have to back the SUV out of the garage and climb into the tornado shelter in the floor of the garage within twenty minutes of the tornado sirens going off which is a few times of month some months.

Most of the year in southern Florida is paradise with little humidity and temps in the seventies. We have great shopping and dinning and no state income tax plus one of the best homestead tax laws in the US. It is not cheap to live here but not as bad as California or New York. I own no warm clothes and pretty much am able to wear the same clothing year round.

Summer and part of fall is hot and humid but you get used to it and learn to only go outside from the A/C in the evening.

I've lived here for most of my life and only been through five hurricanes. We get lots of warning when they are coming and our houses are built to withstand them. Mostly they are more of an annoyance then anything else since they disrupt utilities and just make a big mess of everything.

Unfortunately the convention is held during the worst month of the year here.

[softball]

[quote=Cleo]Guess it is your definition of harsh.

Most of the year in southern Florida is paradise with little humidity and temps in the seventies.

And then for two months people get killed and livelihoods are wiped out by the weather. It seems to me its like living on the slopes of an active volcano. The weather is nice most of the time. But when it blows, it sucks....
There are a ton of very nice benign climates around that won't kill you. I have always been curious about people that live in harms way by choice. I have always chosen safe climates myself.

[Mina]

Originally Posted by gonzo

We will be hanging where the cool kids arent.

And where's that?