Who's going to the Florida show?

[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.

[Cleo]

My house is built like a bunker with a low roof, small windows, and made out of cement block plus despite living less then a mile from the ocean I'm not in a flood zone being on what is considered high ground here. Because the ocean is very deep on this side of the state we don't have issues with storm surge like the Gulf coast does.

Hurricanes are a real pain in the ass. When one looks like it is coming my way I have to spend a hour putting up shutters and making sure that my almost 200 gallons of fuel storage is full along with all my other storm supplies. I spend extra each month on backup ADSL service since my very fast cable internet goes down for weeks after each storm. Probably going to switch to satellite for backup internet next year since a storm could knock out my backup ADSL service. I pay a lot for insurance on my home and also spent a lot this year having all my trees trimmed way back.

Hurricanes are an annoyance here but way more people die each week driving then from any hurricanes here since this area was built with hurricanes in mind.

Lived here for over twenty years without ever seeing a hurricane but it does look like things have changed. Hopefully we will not get one the week of the show.

[Jace]

I live in Atlanta, the only weather that comes around that can kill me is right now, 101F with 90% humidity....LOL

[Cleo]

Hot as hell and like being in a sauna outside here today. Came out of the gym and decided to take the top out of my car and the top was so hot that it was burning my hands as I took it out.

Not sure why I would take the top out of my car other than having an odd sadistic desire to be baked alive under the Florida sun.


Did I mention that it is a bit warm down here on this sand bar today?

[softball]

Originally Posted by Cleo

Hot as hell and like being in a sauna outside here today. Came out of the gym and decided to take the top out of my car and the top was so hot that it was burning my hands as I took it out.

Not sure why I would take the top out of my car other than having an odd sadistic desire to be baked alive under the Florida sun.


Did I mention that it is a bit warm down here on this sand bar today?

Damn is that you in that fine ride?

[Cleo]

Originally Posted by rhetorical

Damn is that you in that fine ride?

Yeah that is me on the way home from the gym snapping a pic of my refection in the mirror tinting of business in a strip shopping mall.