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I have lived in South Florida for 20 years and I am starting to think we have just been getting lucky with hurricanes the past few years.We haven't even had an advisory any time recently.It's been so clam that people are just shrugging off watches and advisories like they are meaningless.
All this has got me thinking.....what is going to happen if,and when,we get hit with something huge?are people going to go about their business and act as if nothing is going to happen to them?this has me worried.We have been very lucky lately,and people have gotten really complacent about it.
Any thoughts?
I think 2005 is still pretty fresh for many here in South Florida. So many may seem like they are complacent, but they aren't and will not be is one does head for us.
I think that ALOT of folks that went through Wilma were caught "off-guard" and that storm taught many of them a lesson.
Since Wilma, many people that I know have bought generators and have either had shutters of storm windows installed.
You will always get the ones that will wait until the last minute to do anything and wonder why they can't get supplies, etc. and complain about it. You're dealing with the South Florida mentality.
People do become more complacent as each season comes and goes and nothing happens.
What worries me and I know forcecasters as well is what would really happen to Broward / Miami-Dade if a top end Cat 3 or higher has a direct hit on the area. I know what we saw after little Wilma dropped in and what she did.... So can't imagine what it would look like after that and how people would cope.....
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. See, a lot of these storms come off the coast of Africa and they look as if they would be heading our way. But this summer/fall (thus far) we have been lucky to have a "body guard" aka High Pressure system in the Atlantic, and the sheer winds to disintegrate these systems. Hence no further development or they just simply die. The season is not over yet for hurricanes but the peak season is going to be over on Wed.
I tell you the luckiest area in FL is the Tampa Bay area. We were supposed to get Hurricane George back in the 90's and more recently Charlie was forecast to hit the area until the last minute turn.
If a Cat 4 or 5 ever comes into Tampa Bay it's going to make Andrew and Katrina look like a joke. The St. Pete Times printed a map of what the Pinellas County peninsula would look like if that indeed happened and it was frightening.
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