Why do people live in Florida?

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.



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 ****house 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.

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