Close of Season News Item

[Frank2]

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/ ... 8700.story

[HURAKAN]

Lets continue counting our blessings because when we're out of them, the ticking bomb named "South Florida" will explode. I guess people living in Florida expect the peninsula to be annually impacted by hurricanes. This usually is not the case which builds unfounded confidence and then when a major hurricane devastates part of the state people are surprised.

[Frank2]

I'm hoping not to be here (in South Florida) when that happens - again, I'm hoping (hoping is the key word here)...

Personally, the area suffers from the same mistakes that are occuring along California's fault lines, or, in below-level New Orleans (that episode having already been played), or in other at-risk areas of the country...

It's not politically correct to say this, but, by the mid-1800's several Native American tribal leaders believed those coming to North America would eventually suffer the fate we are encountering at this time in history, since this kind of "settle no matter what" thinking has been around since John Smith, but, increased dramatically in the 1840's - we are now paying for our sins...

Again, not politically correct, but, whenever I hear comments like yours, I think of what was mentioned above...

[Downdraft]

Lets continue counting our blessings because when we're out of them, the ticking bomb named "South Florida" will explode. I guess people living in Florida expect the peninsula to be annually impacted by hurricanes. This usually is not the case which builds unfounded confidence and then when a major hurricane devastates part of the state people are surprised.

The ticking time bomb you refer to as "South Florida" ticks no louder or faster than anywhere else from Brownsville to Bar Harbor.