[Floridabound09]

Originally Posted by CHASLS2

Most any big city in FL would take you hours of sitting in clogged traffic if the big one was coming.

Better research well and learn before ya move here!

I am prepared to sit in traffic with a trailer full of food, water, clothes, grill, anything we need will be in there. We could sit for days in line if need be.

Believe me, I will be on the road long before the majority of folks, the first word out and we are gone. I remember the lines and have spoken to many about them, I was told most are not prepared and are slow at reacting to the possibility.

Hurricanes are not in my top 5 issues to move to Florida, however I will be over prepared for them. They do not scare me at all and with 4 canes in 20 years, my chances are getting run down by a train off the track are better.
I was in MB when Hugo hit and had no problem whatsoever.

Many people use and see Hurricanes are a deterant to people wanting to move to Florida. For me, not an issue at all. It's all about being prepared as the information on them is now days if not a week in advance.

[INeedAChange]

For me, hurricanes are not a top issue, but the possible global warming effects on Florida do give me pause. However, if global warming does occur, it's not just going to affect Florida, but many many places.

Originally Posted by Floridabound09

I am prepared to sit in traffic with a trailer full of food, water, clothes, grill, anything we need will be in there. We could sit for days in line if need be.

Believe me, I will be on the road long before the majority of folks, the first word out and we are gone. I remember the lines and have spoken to many about them, I was told most are not prepared and are slow at reacting to the possibility.

Hurricanes are not in my top 5 issues to move to Florida, however I will be over prepared for them. They do not scare me at all and with 4 canes in 20 years, my chances are getting run down by a train off the track are better.
I was in MB when Hugo hit and had no problem whatsoever.

Many people use and see Hurricanes are a deterant to people wanting to move to Florida. For me, not an issue at all. It's all about being prepared as the information on them is now days if not a week in advance.

[macguy]

Originally Posted by INeedAChange

For me, hurricanes are not a top issue, but the possible global warming effects on Florida do give me pause. However, if global warming does occur, it's not just going to affect Florida, but many many places.

Forget about global warming, we are just a few years away from a nuclear problem that will spell a new age in world problems. Once it happens everything as we know it changes. You saw what just a hand full of guys did on 911, our lives have not been the same since. They were successful beyond their wildest dreams. You can't even fly on a plane anymore without it being a huge hassle, we even ended up in a war.

You let a nuclear conflict happen anywhere on the planet and we are all effected, life as we know it changes for good. Up until now it was always considered no one would be stupid enough to do it, that has all changed and it is now not if but when. The train has left the station on this one and I for one don't look forward to it. I started a thread a while back whether anyones moving plans were effected by world events. I never answered myself but the answer was yes. My selling my house near Port Everglades was based on it being a target for terrorism as much as anything else.

That port like the one in the news a few weeks ago supplies fuel through a pipeline to Miami and Fort Lauderdale airports and could easily be targeted. It is an easy target anyway in my opinion. Let someone blow up that field of tanks with it's millions of gallons of fuel we naively live right next to and you could not give away property in Fort Lauderdale for years to come. Not to mention the number of people who would be directly killed and effected by the aftermath and clean up.

Have you ever taken a close look at Port Everglades, it is an antique wth no security what so ever. Man am I glad I am away from there, now just to get ride of the other house and I am out of here for good. I guess this is kind of Florida related.

[INeedAChange]

I hope you are wrong MacGuy. Part of the reason I want to leave NYC is that I'm tired of living with the fear that there could be another attack here. A few months ago someone collapsed on the subway train during rush hour in front of me and it gave me the jitters--it doesn't take much (in terms of false alarms) to set people on edge here, seven years later .

I would think they'd go after a more spectacular target like New York than Florida, although if the security is lax in any place it could become one.

Originally Posted by macguy

Forget about global warming, we are just a few years away from a nuclear problem that will spell a new age in world problems. Once it happens everything as we know it changes. You saw what just a hand full of guys did on 911, our lives have not been the same since. They were successful beyond their wildest dreams. You can't even fly on a plane anymore without it being a huge hassle, we even ended up in a war.

You let a nuclear conflict happen anywhere on the planet and we are all effected, life as we know it changes for good. Up until now it was always considered no one would be stupid enough to do it, that has all changed and it is now not if but when. The train has left the station on this one and I for one don't look forward to it. I started a thread a while back whether anyones moving plans were effected by world events. I never answered myself but the answer was yes. My selling my house near Port Everglades was based on it being a target for terrorism as much as anything else.

That port like the one in the news a few weeks ago supplies fuel through a pipeline to Miami and Fort Lauderdale airports and could easily be targeted. It is an easy target anyway in my opinion. Let someone blow up that field of tanks with it's millions of gallons of fuel we naively live right next to and you could not give away property in Fort Lauderdale for years to come. Not to mention the number of people who would be directly killed and effected by the aftermath and clean up.

Have you ever taken a close look at Port Everglades, it is an antique wth no security what so ever. Man am I glad I am away from there, now just to get ride of the other house and I am out of here for good. I guess this is kind of Florida related.

[macguy]

Originally Posted by INeedAChange

I hope you are wrong MacGuy. Part of the reason I want to leave NYC is that I'm tired of living with the fear that there could be another attack here. A few months ago someone collapsed on the subway train during rush hour in front of me and it gave me the jitters--it doesn't take much (in terms of false alarms) to set people on edge here, seven years later .

I would think they'd go after a more spectacular target like New York than Florida, although if the security is lax in any place it could become one.

I don't understand why they feel they need to hit something big. They strike the greatest fear by hitting the unlikely easy targets making all people feel they can be a target. Bomb a shopping center in nowhere'sville USA and kill a few hundred or better yet in a hundred different nowhere'sville USA's. and kill 10,000. Heck, how much trouble can one person cause just starting fires. They haven't even begun to think outside the box yet and we have zero defense to do anything about it.

I call it the "Key the car theory". You own a nice car and all it takes for it to get ruined is for someone to be so inclined to do so, but you assume no one will, so we drive nice cars and don't think about it. But in reality, we have no protection a all against it happening. Same with terrorism, we have no defense, thats the scary part. Port Everglades by the way is a major port though. All they have to do is hijack a full fuel truck, wire it up and drive it into the field of tanks. You would have an chain reaction explosion they would hear on the other coast in Naples. What going to stop them, the guy in the booth with a little gate going up and down. They can just crash right through that and it is game over. It's a joke.

The posable health problems that could follow after such an event would not make me want to live here again. Look at what they are finding out about NY city now. People are dying all over the place from what they believe relates to 911. A nuclear thing forget about it. Radiation would at a point effect the whole world, even with a small conflict. I am glad I don't have any kids I would lay awake at night wondering what kind world they will be living in the future. We are reaching a real crossroads in human existence on this planet.
We are living in very scary times right now. If things play out like I believe they may, you will wish global warming was the worst problem.

[hiknapster]

I agree MacGuy. Hurricanes are horrible, but the least of our problems. Quite frankly, the chance of them hitting New York City are slim to none. They took us by surprise, but they know they cannot do that again.

No one answered this guy's crime question.

I have a few feelings on that, too.

I'll let you all discuss.

[nb_mitch]

I would not consider moving to Poinciana, it is about 20 miles south of 192 and has very few roads, so commuting to there is a nightmare, I have heard there is allot of crime there, but have never lived there.

But, I think your question is a bit vague. Are you moving to work or retire, what is important to you? The 2 areas you mention are so drastically different, one a large metropolitan area and one a small community in the middle of nowhere.