Gulf states.. And just like that, we're off.

[Rapidtrans777]

ooops left one local out SINKHOLES!

Can't run from those! I remember the Winter Park sinkhole. A friend of mine worked at Imperial cleaners. The back side of their building was right at the edge of the hole, got to look down into it up close while helping them move all their equipment out into the street

 

[azblackhemi]

Do you set it on "broil" or "self clean"??
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Broil is usually the hottest it gets. Luckily I never have to run to Home Depot to buy plywood to board up my windows in that kind of heat.

 

[68PK21 440.6bbl]

You NEVER hear of someone in the south retiring and moving north......!

Yep many, friends of mine left the Sarasota area for N. Alabama (but not to retire) after he was done with all the buildup sprawl decades ago. Kids are still in 'sota, think they said dad got a desk job up at the main office.
I'm looking too, many have gone to Georgia, North Carolina, and I hear Eastern Tennessee is popular, but watch out for the TVA Dams, hear their due date is way past, put a fork in Virginia or western North Carolina, it's done sprawl wise.

A bunker in Idaho is really not a bad idea!
Old missile sites in the Midwest are popular, a least ya got some protection from the Tornado's!

 

[68PK21 440.6bbl]

Broil is usually the hottest it gets. Luckily I never have to run to Home Depot to buy plywood to board up my windows in that kind of heat.

Heard that Tucson was getting some fires... I'll have to check Google Earth to see the stupid places they built out there, haven't had a geez at Tucson for a couple of years.
Just did Miami Area after that Parkland shooting, I was amazed as I had a good look just a year or so. They're running out of room down there.

Soon to come here.

 

[azblackhemi]

Heard that Tucson was getting some fires... I'll have to check Google Earth to see the stupid places they built out there, haven't had a geez at Tucson for a couple of years.
Just did Miami Area after that Parkland shooting, I was amazed as I had a good look just a year or so. They're running out of room down there.

Soon to come here.

Yeah the ridiculous growth out here is way more of a problem than the hot weather. In fact I wish it was hotter so less people would come out here. I'm just very thankful I am retired/working from home so I don't have to commute into the city every day. The traffic is insane. Catching up to LA crazy.

 

[cantflip]

Yeah the ridiculous growth out here is way more of a problem than the hot weather. In fact I wish it was hotter so less people would come out here. I'm just very thankful I am retired/working from home so I don't have to commute into the city every day. The traffic is insane. Catching up to LA crazy.

I actually found the drivers to be so much better than what I deal with... Driving on I10 was downright relaxing. One of my neighbor's got in an accident a few days ago, the other driver dodged around the cars in front of him at a redlight and ran the intersection at high speed. T-boned his F series hard enough to break the rear axle and send the wheel into other cars. The driver's quote " I was anticipating the light" I watch that crap happen several times a day on my 11 mile commute, along with another few who enter the roadway without stopping or looking... and they all seem to have a few cell phones stuck to the middle of their windshields.

When I give up FL it will be to let those folks have it... but my retirement plan works better if I can wait it out long enough for my property to have an ocean view.

 

[commando1]

but my retirement plan works better if I can wait it out long enough for my property to have an ocean view.

Something to chew on. Present-to-2100 time lapse.

I'm good. Dunno about Bill, tho...

 

[67Monaco]

Technically, that should have already happened per Al Gore. Just sayin'.

 

[1978 NYB]

Whole house generator is on the list for me within the next year. I have to fight the HOA and the County to get a permit. Runs on natural gas. Mid-Atlantic gets a taste of every extreme of weather.....every year.

Doesn't help me this week. Had a taste of violent weather yesterday and coming the rest of this week. All power is underground in my sub-division yet we have power failures with 10 mph wind events. Main street has 140 year old houses and they never lose power.

 

[bluefury361]

[QUOTE="1978 NYB, I have to fight the HOA and the County to get a permit.

All power is underground in my sub-division yet we have power failures with 10 mph wind events. Main street has 140 year old houses and they never lose power.[/QUOTE]




I would have thought you'd be about fed up with that condo and the HOA with all the crap you've suffered by now Bob....... Perhaps move to Main street into a 140 Year old house with a garage....?

 

[67Monaco]

Whole house generator is on the list for me within the next year. I have to fight the HOA and the County to get a permit. Runs on natural gas. Mid-Atlantic gets a taste of every extreme of weather.....every year.

Doesn't help me this week. Had a taste of violent weather yesterday and coming the rest of this week. All power is underground in my sub-division yet we have power failures with 10 mph wind events. Main street has 140 year old houses and they never lose power.

When we lived in Murderland the power was always flakey. Utils were also underground and it seemed a light wind for whatever reason would make electricity in the neighborhood flicker. But that wasn't our biggest problem.

No, one can live without electricity. Water. When you go without water for a few days, you really grasp why you need a stock pile of it.

We had so many outages that as soon as we noticed pressure dropping in the lines we immediately went and turned on the water in all the sinks and both tubs in an effort to have some to boil to wash dishes and gravity flush toilets.

Our longest streak was 9 days without water due to main breaks.

 

[bluefury361]

Something to chew on. Present-to-2100 time lapse.

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Darn, I should have jumped on the property outside of Punta Gorda. In 82 years, (I'll be 173), I'd have gulf front land.

 

[commando1]

Darn, I should have jumped on the property outside of Punta Gorda. In 82 years, (I'll be 173), I'd have gulf front land.

Gulf FRONT? You be far out in the Gulf.

 

[cantflip]

Gulf FRONT? You be far out in the Gulf.

And maybe my math is off... but that would make you this best looking 90 y/o man I know.

 

[bluefury361]

And maybe my math is off... but that would make you this best looking 90 y/o man I know.

Sorry..... Senior moment.

 

[67Monaco]

Welp lets see what happens with this one;

 

[68PK21 440.6bbl]

RAIN! gotta love it. Saw a lot of 'ahem' grumpy *Newcomers* today...



They really need a wise up as to whats Florida is all about (and who the suckers are that bought swampland).

 

[commando1]

This stretch of rain is the longest and the most dreary I have ever seen since coming down here. Going on two weeks now. And I'm not talking about your mandatory 4:00 PM T-storms. I'm talking RAIN!
I'm gonna go out and kill me something. Soon.

 

[67Monaco]

I'm enjoying the hades out out of it. Here's too 60 more days...

 

[commando1]

What's wrong with you, man?