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Hurricane Season Has Some Reconsidering Living In Florida
| They do that every hurricane season. What else is new? |
Being a month or more without electrical power in sweltering swamp heat, due to four devastating hurricanes in any little over a month, and being made cognizant the current hurricane cycle shall being pounding the so-called Sunshine State from June through November for at least another 15 to 25 years, it's time to head back home, where the lights remain on and the water has a place to drain. Florida is only for a vacation spot during the winter months to go to the beach & Disneyworld.
The latest hurricane to slam into Florida has some residents reconsidering whether or not they want to continue living in the state, according to a Local 6 News report.
| "Maudette, I think we should move the trailer house back to Des Moines!" |
A Local 6 News exclusive survey found 31 percent of people asked said this year's storm season has caused them to think about leaving. However, 69 percent of those surveyed said no, that they have not thought about moving away from Florida.
| "I mean, just because the hurricane blew the house away and we were attacked by alligators, why should we leave?" |
The storm sliced across the state Sunday with howling wind and rain, turning streets into rivers, peeling off roofs and rocketing debris from earlier storms through the air. The storm made landfall just weeks after Frances ravaged the same stretch of coast, and hurled debris only recently cleared from earlier hurricanes. Together, Hurricanes Ivan, Charley and Frances have already caused billions of dollars of damage and at least 70 deaths in the state. "The last three weeks have been horrific," said mobile home park owner Joe Stawara in Vero Beach. "And just when we start to turn the corner, this happens."
| "What comes next? Volcanic eruptions?" |
| Some inexpensive land near Mount Saint Helens right now ... |
The hurricanes have prompted the largest relief effort in the Federal Emergency Management Agency's history, eclipsing responses for the 1994 earthquake in Northridge, Calif., and the 2001 terrorist attacks, director Michael Brown said. Jeanne is the state's fourth hurricane of the season -- an ordeal no state has faced since Texas in 1886.| Signs and portents, friends, signs and portents. |
Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-09-27 |
