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Florida is most certainly on both coasts and I don't think you can associate it with either one more than the other. The Florida keys stretch into the gulf. Tampa/St. Pete/Sarasota/Ft. Myers/The Panhandle are all considered gulf. We were affected by the oil spill just like the rest of the gulf.
But I made the decision, when you waste an afternoon making a post like this you can decide how to break it up. :P Answer the damn questions.
Florida is most certainly on both coasts and I don't think you can associate it with either one more than the other. The Florida keys stretch into the gulf. Tampa/St. Pete/Sarasota/Ft. Myers/The Panhandle are all considered gulf. We were affected by the oil spill just like the rest of the gulf.
But I made the decision, when you waste an afternoon making a post like this you can decide how to break it up. :P Answer the damn questions.
True, but Miami sits at the point where it's in the crossroads of both Gulf and Atlantic.
Then there's the catastrophes people associate Hurricane season with Florida, mostly the Gulf. Then there's also Tampa on the Gulf. The real cities on the Atlantic side are Jacksonville and Fort Lauderdale.
I think Florida gets more view for hurricane season in it's gulf though.
Especially because Tampa and Miami operate large shipping ports with the Gulf countries/Caribbean Islands.
Hurrican Threat map - Atlantic oast is higher threat incidence
Even Cape Hatteras NC is of higher than the majority of the gulf - now the gulf dues to warm and not as deep waters can create monsters but there are far more Atlantic Coast Hurricane strikes than Gulf ones
For Florida look at what happened to Homestead FL (outside of Miami) a few years back - believe it was the most dmaging in Florida history
Oh and for those of you questioning Georgia I could easily change Georgia to be technically more accurate but I'd have to put NY and PA in the Green since they have longer coast lines on the great lakes than on the atlantic. Pennsylvania doesn't even touch the Atlantic yet nobody is complaining on those
Oh and for those of you questioning Georgia I could easily change Georgia to be technically more accurate but I'd have to put NY and PA in the Green since they have longer coast lines on the great lakes than on the atlantic. Pennsylvania doesn't even touch the Atlantic yet nobody is complaining on those
That is correct! Though the Salt water line of Bay does reside just above the state line so technically it does touch salt water
PA is actually the only Mid Atlantic State that does not touch the ocean - very close (less than 40 miles) but does not - technically PA is not a coastal State
But honestly on all your selections even from a regional perspective I believe GA (definately Southern and Definatley a Sunbelt city) is not considered a gulf coast state but we are nit-picking and GA is probably not going to the state to put either region over the top - nothing against GA - a great state none-the-less
No the title is flawed the question is not flawed. If you read what I wrote instead of reading the thread title and then immediately commenting you'd see nowhere in the question does it say anything about the coasts. I'll try to get a moderator to rename the thread Another Regional Showdown or something but the question itself isn't flawed at all. In fact I state not to worry about the map because no regional maps are perfect.
See how there are many different maps that show up under Great Lakes Maps. Thats because its a regional thing not just a coastline.
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