In times like these, do you enjoy living in Tampa? (Gibsonton: club, floors)

[MAniacTHW]

Originally Posted by KPB

IMO, this world needs a few more rednecks

Just not here near Tampa. Put them in Brandon, Lutz, or Pasco County where they belong.

[KPB]

Originally Posted by MAniacTHW

Just not here near Tampa. Put them in Brandon, Lutz, or Pasco County where they belong.

Your not racist are you? Almost like saying black people should only live in a certain area isn't it?

[Vinny536]

Originally Posted by Benny the Mutt

Thank you. I tried to rate you but I guess I have to rate others before I am allowed to rate you again. If I lived in a mobile or a crummy house I would go to a local shelter. Sitting in that traffic for hours is insane.

I feel like a lot of people that ran for the hills don't even live in either example of someone who should have bailed.

Here in a fairly modern neighborhood in Brandon a lot of my neighbors left. People were chatty while I was cleaning up the yard, most the people that stayed said they would never stay again. That's just crazy. My neighborhood sustained no damage. We lost power for all of about a minute during the storm.

A lot of people boarded up their windows too. I thought that was only a waterfront thing? At least in North Carolina it was only the waterfront houses that bothered with it.


When I was waterfront in Palm Coast for matthew last year I left because of the projected storm surge. The worst case my house would have flooded. It didn't. the eyewall passed 20 miles offshore to the east, two pieces of facia trim blew off the house into the yard.

Irma was my third hurricane, first in Tampa. The idea of driving hours to another state, missing work, spending about a grand on gas, food, hotels, etc is crazy for people living in a neighborhood like mine. My friends from up north were all upset asking why I didn't evacuate. Asking "why don't you leave when there is a blizzard coming?" didn't set their mind at ease.


And this transplant will be merrily leaving your state as soon as my wife completes grad school. Florida isn't for me! If I was staying in florida it would be Jacksonville, I like that city, but most Floridians say JAX "isn't Florida" anyway.

[Benny the Mutt]

Originally Posted by KPB

Nah, it was just a bad joke.
Suburban Estates is like River Ranch and Rancho Bonito. Swamp land marketed and sold to northeners in the 60's-70's.
They still haven't built anything on it.

Lol. There was a lot of that going on then. It was pretty rampant in south Fl. General Development Co. comes to mind.

[Benny the Mutt]

I think when people saw the damage in the Caribbean and the not too favorable forecast it scared people. The boarding up thing is everywhere. If a window gets smashed by flying debris, it changes the pressure in the house. When 2nough pressure builds up from the incoming wind the roof lifts. Not good. People need to take precautions with non hurricane rated garage doors, leaky doors, everything must be considered.

Originally Posted by Vinny536

I feel like a lot of people that ran for the hills don't even live in either example of someone who should have bailed.

Here in a fairly modern neighborhood in Brandon a lot of my neighbors left. People were chatty while I was cleaning up the yard, most the people that stayed said they would never stay again. That's just crazy. My neighborhood sustained no damage. We lost power for all of about a minute during the storm.

A lot of people boarded up their windows too. I thought that was only a waterfront thing? At least in North Carolina it was only the waterfront houses that bothered with it.


When I was waterfront in Palm Coast for matthew last year I left because of the projected storm surge. The worst case my house would have flooded. It didn't. the eyewall passed 20 miles offshore to the east, two pieces of facia trim blew off the house into the yard.

Irma was my third hurricane, first in Tampa. The idea of driving hours to another state, missing work, spending about a grand on gas, food, hotels, etc is crazy for people living in a neighborhood like mine. My friends from up north were all upset asking why I didn't evacuate. Asking "why don't you leave when there is a blizzard coming?" didn't set their mind at ease.


And this transplant will be merrily leaving your state as soon as my wife completes grad school. Florida isn't for me! If I was staying in florida it would be Jacksonville, I like that city, but most Floridians say JAX "isn't Florida" anyway.

[Benny the Mutt]

Originally Posted by bobandsherry

LOL - I've only been here for a couple years and knew you were joking.

For Benny's info -> Suburban Estates

Heated Bidding for A Slice of Fla. Swamp

Thanks guys.

[Benny the Mutt]

Originally Posted by SouthSota14

This guy Benny the Mutt isn't that smart, he just thinks he is. He said he was a FL native too. I feel like the real native. Misplaced, having to leave the state like other natives have in other states because its gotten overrun. Guys like Benny, if they're Floridian, they're upper crust. They aren't the FL cracker types because they don't communicate like him usually. The ones with half indian blood and work the soil. I am more closer to that than this guy I can bet you. I am convinced I have Neolithic farmer dna too.

Well, I do hold degrees in various areas of agricultural science and environmental science. I spent 24 years working in the Florida Department of Agriculture and have been a member of the Sierra Club for decades. My family history is in citrus, cypress, cattle and pine. I have never felt misplaced in my entire life. My family consists of the original white settlers in Florida arriving in the 1840's. Indian wars, civil war, they were here. my ancestors worked the land and the sea as shrimpers and fisherman. They put in the blood sweat and tears to make Florida available to twits who get worked up over summer weather, come here knowing nothing and have nothing to offer Florida. Guys like you are a dime a dozen with an extra one for free on Tuesdays.

[Benny the Mutt]

Originally Posted by Roscoe Conkling

And why does that matter ? The OP asks whether other posters enjoy living here at times like this not how long they have lived here.
The sun shines the same way on a person whether they've been here fifty years or five minutes.
You're sounding like a bit of a redneck.

Yes, I would say I have been a redneck from long days working outdoors and sitting on a horse chasing cows around but that was when I was a very young man.

You're a transplant, a foreigner to boot. Welcome to my country and Florida. Kick back, pop a beer and relax. Enjoy your stay.

[Roscoe Conkling]

Originally Posted by Benny the Mutt

Yes, I would say I have been a redneck from long days working outdoors and sitting on a horse chasing cows around but that was when I was a very young man.

You're a transplant, a foreigner to boot. Welcome to my country and Florida. Kick back, pop a beer and relax. Enjoy your stay.

I've been here 40 years.
Yourself ?

[Benny the Mutt]

Originally Posted by roscoe conkling

i've been here 40 years.
Yourself ?

62.