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Old September 5th, 2004, 06:59 AM
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Pete Platis wrote:

2. Staggering humidity ( well not all of florida but anything south of the
tropical line is brutal)


I think effect of high humidity is not only slower evaporation, but the
denser air too, it makes cold days colder and hot ones hotter (

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Old September 5th, 2004, 07:04 AM
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"eüphemism" If you have completed your manifesto, it's time to get out to
the cabin and start licking envelopes.

I will have to get a job so that I can buy the stamps and envelopes. Not
something like the electrical generator that I hooked up to the bicycle so
that I can generate electric by riding my bike. Just getting together the
$10. for my ISP takes all my time collecting aluminum cans for recycling.


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Old September 5th, 2004, 07:05 AM
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"grisgrisfunk" wrote in message
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"ScanMan" wrote in message
news:Hfu_c.1026$x12.87@trnddc05...
Amen to that. I don't care where you live, you have hazards. Umm,

that's
all
part of the wonderful world we live in.

What's that old song, Your Blues Ain't Like Mine...

A Happy Floridian


I agree... Connecticut is a hazardous state to drive in, and that's an
everyday occurence. People here only know one speed, FAST. Crazy reckless
drivers. Once in awhile a person from Massachusetts will cross the border,
they're even worse. We call them Massholes!

So I agree, every state has it's hazards. I deal with them everyday on

the
road.

Mike R.



If I ever meet a person who doesn't think the drivers where he lives are the
absolute worst in the world, I will eat his seat covers.

The drivers in Florida were the worst until I moved out here to Texas.
Apparently all the real morons moved at just the same time I did, because
the insane and incompetent drivers here are clearly now the worst anywhere.
I offer proof:

I have never SEEN such a bunch of red-light-running maniacs in my entire
life. On top of that, drag racing deaths and high-speed police chases are a
daily occurrence. Just since I have been living here, I have seen numerous
police chases caught on live television... two of them are "classics" that
you will now see on every episode of "Scariest Police Chases." Both are from
just the last two years here at DFW... Perhaps you've seen the one with a
maniac who is running from police while driving a forty-foot flat-bed rig,
dragging a fork truck that has fallen from the bed and the sparks and fuel
set the back end of the trailer on fire? Great stuff... Then there's the
one where the fleeing car thief apparently commits suicide when he realizes
he can't escape and so just drives the stolen pickup right into a concrete
support column - doing about 80 mph. Brutal.

The irony is that many Texas drivers are the most courteous you will find.
Those folks are scattered like the occasional raisin in the maniac muffin
mix of DFW traffic. Just the other day, a Comcast Cable worker pulled out a
gun and killed a driver who ****ed him off. It wasn't even a big story.
Then there was the guy who threw his ex from the 80' overpass into the
traffic below and then jumped himself. Don't forget the woman who impaled
the bum in her windshield and then left him there to die. She was
immediately upstaged by the Houston wife who was caught on video doing
donuts atop her cheating husband in the parking lot of the hotel where the
affair was held.

I don't care where you live... Texas is nuttier.


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Old September 5th, 2004, 07:06 AM
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"Willcox" wrote in message
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Pete Platis wrote:

2. Staggering humidity ( well not all of florida but anything south of

the
tropical line is brutal)


I think effect of high humidity is not only slower evaporation, but the
denser air too, it makes cold days colder and hot ones hotter (




The McFLT effect?

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Old September 5th, 2004, 07:25 AM
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On 09/04/2004 8:04 PM Vandeman, committed frenium gestures and then wrote:

"Peter L" wrote in :


Where else would you want them to live? Twister alley? Earthquake
country? Buffalo?



Earthquakes and tornados don't hit the same neighborhoods every few years.


Tell that to the folks in Shoreview MN. Hit by tornadoes twice in the
same year.

I also recall seeing on the Weather Channel a story about a town hit by
2 F-4 and one F-2 tornadoes within minutes of each other.

Earthquakes DO hit the same neighborhoods, when they are on or very
close to the fault line.

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Old September 5th, 2004, 07:42 AM
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On 09/04/2004 7:04 PM puzzled, committed frenium gestures and then wrote:

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.



Why do people live in Holland? It's below sea level, in some spots 25
feet below. Why do people live in Siberia, even in the Summer there's
perma frost. People have to be buried above ground. Why do Bedouins
live in the desert? Why do the French love Jerry Lewis? Why do Germans
love David Hasselhoff? Why do people eat Leutafisk?

The answer to three of these is that's because it's their home. As for
the French and the Germans, damned if I know. Leutafisk? Maybe as a
change of pace from deer meat?

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Old September 5th, 2004, 07:42 AM
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On 09/04/2004 7:04 PM puzzled, committed frenium gestures and then wrote:

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.



Why do people live in Holland? It's below sea level, in some spots 25
feet below. Why do people live in Siberia, even in the Summer there's
perma frost. People have to be buried above ground. Why do Bedouins
live in the desert? Why do the French love Jerry Lewis? Why do Germans
love David Hasselhoff? Why do people eat Leutafisk?

The answer to three of these is that's because it's their home. As for
the French and the Germans, damned if I know. Leutafisk? Maybe as a
change of pace from deer meat?

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Old September 5th, 2004, 09:10 AM
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A Sat, 4 Sep 2004 17:05:43 -0700, "Peter L"
escribió:
Where else would you want them to live? Twister alley? Earthquake
country? Buffalo?


Knoxville, TN.


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Old September 5th, 2004, 11:15 AM
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I'm french...who's Jerry Lewis ?

"Brian K" a écrit dans le message de
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On 09/04/2004 7:04 PM puzzled, committed frenium gestures and then wrote:

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.



Why do people live in Holland? It's below sea level, in some spots 25
feet below. Why do people live in Siberia, even in the Summer there's
perma frost. People have to be buried above ground. Why do Bedouins
live in the desert? Why do the French love Jerry Lewis? Why do Germans
love David Hasselhoff? Why do people eat Leutafisk?

The answer to three of these is that's because it's their home. As for
the French and the Germans, damned if I know. Leutafisk? Maybe as a
change of pace from deer meat?

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Old September 5th, 2004, 01:11 PM
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On Sat, 04 Sep 2004 19:04:11 -0400, puzzled wrote:

A massive hurricane seems to hit Florida every few years. I really don't
understand why people continue to live there.


Hmmm. Because to many of them, it's not just a place to live ... it's
HOME. "Home" means more to a lot of folks than just a place to live,
that's convenient, has weather they like, beaches with scantily clad
pretty gals on it, etc.

Don't they get tired of having
to evacuate every summer, and having their houses destroyed? Someone explain
this to me.


Hmmm. You are perhaps mathematically challenged? G

Many people have trouble putting things into proper perspective,
especially when numbers are involved.

Fact is, MOST Floridians don't have to evacuate every summer. MOST
don't have their homes destroyed. Most will tell yah they've lived
thru MANY hurricane and tornado warnings, just to have nothing much
happen to them, personally. Or anyone close to em.

And, of those who have experienced damage and destruction, for most
.... it's a once in a lifetime event, with the odds of it happening to
them, personally, again ... being very small.

There are exceptions, of course. Heck, in my lifetime, and I've lived
a lot of places as I spent a career in the military, I've lived thru
tornado hits, hurricanes (and typhoons on the other side of the
world), multiple serious blizzards, floods, etc. Obviously, there are
other folks who've been thru the same. But they tend to be the
minority.

Shrug To me, it's a matter of reality. Reality is that there are
no perfect places to live. Every place has it's pro and cons.
Hazards and danger are simply part of life. And there are NO
guarantees in life. No matter where each of us lives. Except that
each and every one of us will die someday. From something. Some of
us sooner, some of us later.

Another thing to consider. It's human nature to fear most those
things one does not know, understand, or have personal experience
with. IOW, those things an individual finds strange or different from
one's personal experience. It's also human nature that when one has
faced a particular danger or hazard, and survived it ... that it's
likely that the next time the same is faced, there will be less fear
and panic.

I was born in tornado alley, for instance. Born in Oklahoma, lived
there and in Texas and in Louisiana for years, before I joined the
military service and spent a career living all over the country. And
various places overseas. By the time I was in high school, I'd
experienced strikes or near strikes by numerous tornadoes, and had
lived in places that'd been flooded out, and had been in a hurricane
hit on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico. Shrug Okay, to me, just a
fact of life. Things one had to face from time to time. Yah died, or
yah didn't. Best yah could do was keep wits about you, take prudent
precautions and actions when such occurred. Weather, bad weather, was
just a fact of life. To be dealt with.

In later years, when I married, I was much amused when my bride
paniced when tornado warnings were out this one day. And I stepped
outside and was watching the sky, as it is my habit to do at such
times. And I saw a funnel form and start dropping. Headed our way.
She and the kids were inside the house. She came out to see what I
was doing, and to ask whether or not I thought we ought to be worried,
and what more should she do? I answered, "Well, maybe yah ought to go
back in and take the kids to the basement. It's time." She stared at
me blankly. I pointed at what I was watching. In the distance yah
could see debris flying into the air where the funnel had touched
down. She got wide eyed, screeched, and durned near killed self in
hurrying to get inside. Screaming at kids to get into basement NOW,
yelling at me to get fool ass inside, etc. ROFLMAO !

At a later time, she'd learned. Same deal, tornado warnings out.
Things looking nasty outside. As before, I stepped outside so I could
see. I know the signs. Know what to look for. Occassionally the
wife stepped out, "How's it look, Honey?" I assured her that there
was nothing to worry about as yet. After a bit she came out, sipping
a glass of wine, and holding another she was bringing to me. She
scanned skies. "Anything to worry about yet?" This time I answered,
"Yep, maybe. Depends on how it tracks." And I pointed. I could
already see the signs of funnel forming. She did not see same at
first, til funnel was well formed. Then it started to drop. She
asked, "Think it's gonna touch down?" My reply was "I don't think so,
but I think that one will." And pointed in a slightly different
direction. There was another. And this one came all the way down.
We watched as tree branches, shingles, lumber, and what not leaped
into the air in the distance. This time, while wary, she didn't
panic. She asked, "Should I tell the kids to gather the dogs and head
for the basement?" And this time I said, "I think so. I'm gonna stay
and keep an eye on it. But she's looking like she's gonna come real
close, maybe even hit us. Best to get em down there, it'll save time
later if it keeps on the same track." She did that, but then came
back outside herself and we sipped wine and watched. Chatting. A
news helo happened to be in the area, and we waved at the crew.

LOL ... we lived in the Twin Cities of Minnesota at the time.
Brooklyn Park to be specific. On the local news, later, they made a
big deal of the film shot by that camera crew on the helo. First
time, far as they knew, that a news helo happened to be in just the
right place to film actual tornado strike as it happened. At at one
point in the film, camera pans to show 2 people down below, holding
glasses, waving "Hello" at the helo. That'd be us.

My wife, being older, and more experienced, now takes such things in
stride. It's part of life. Does she shake and quake, moan and
complain? Nope. She does, however, every tornado season make sure
our emergency storm supplies and preparations are all in place and
ready for use. Likewise, come winter, she helps me check over
emergency winter supplies. And check out emergency winter car kits
which we have made up and keep handy. We check em over, place em in
every vehicle we own.

It's part of life, guy. Life's dangerous. Get used to it. Take
suitable precautions, make suitable preparations, then get on with
life and don't sweat the small ****. Enjoy the day, because not a one
of us knows if we'll be alive tomorrow.

Nowadays, I live in western Minnesota. I'm about 60 miles from Fargo.
Tornado risk is somewhat less than other places I have lived. But
they still occur routinely. I didn't move here to avoid tornadoes.
Heck, we get some pretty damned bad weather time to time. And winter
can get viscious in these parts.

However, I like the area, I like the fishing, I like the people (most
of em). And it's the area my wife was born and raised in for the
first several years of her life. And she has many relatives and old
friends around these parts. Her ancestors having been her since
before Custer marched off to meet the Sioux. (They got along with the
Sioux)

It's not just a place to live. To me, or to her. It's HOME. And we
accept it, the good and the bad. Nor do we make the choice out of
ignorance or lack of alternatives. I've lived all over the friggin
world. And while I was on active duty service, and after we married,
she's lived in California (north and south), Texas, Illinois, and
Washington state. And has traveled thru and visited another couple
dozen places.

There are good things about living here, and bad things. We think the
good outweighs the bad. And know how to cope with the bad.

Same thing could be said about most any place. Gunner likes where he
lives, tho he's originally from Michigan. Myself, I'll take a pass on
his location. But to him, it's home. I'm quite familiar with
Florida. Haven't lived there long term. But have lived there for
months at a time, a few times. And have made several shorter visits.
Nice place to visit. But not the place I want to live full time.
Others like it. Oscar the Grouch, I mean ... Tim May ... likes where
he lives. I lived in the Bay area for years. It was okay. But not a
place I wanted to stay. So he can have it, far as I'm concerned.
Others in this newsgroup live in Arizona. Been there. In fact used
to own a small plot there, with a permanently fixed mobile home (it
was set upon a foundation). Bought as wife and I considered using it
as a winter getaway after I retired from the service and we'd moved to
Minnesota. But after she experienced how fierce the heat could get in
those parts, and saw the warnings that one could not drink the tap
water, and had experienced the idea of making the trek to those
drinking water dispensing stations they had there to fill drinking
water jugs ... she decided "No way". And we sold the place.

Some folks like Chicago, and New York City. Been there, to both. To
me, dirty, filthy, overcrowded, and I didn't care for the people. No
one has enough money to pay me to live in those places. But, I do
accept that there are folks who like it there.

Just some thoughts.

Bob




 




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