Between the extreme weather and many potential dangers, it’s a wonder anyone manages to stay in Florida. We’ve come to the conclusion Florida’s residents must be some real tough cookies.
- Hurricanes are a very real threat here.
Flickr/Florida Sea Grant No one here has forgotten Hurricane Andrew in 1992 and we’ll get through any others that come our way.
Flickr/Scotto Bear Don’t try to tell me wind capable of doing that wouldn’t scare you a little bit.
Flickr/maf04 There has always been crazy weather in Florida, and yet, we all choose to stay.
- The whole gator thing is true.
Flickr/Trish Hartmann Depending on where you live, alligators are common enough that people have unexpected contact with them more often than they’d probably like. Gators like this one often end up in yards and pools of unsuspecting homeowners.
- Plus there’s plenty of other frightening wildlife around.
Flickr/Chuck Patch Gators aren’t the only frightening animals we host. Florida is home to everything form sharks to rattlesnakes. and plenty of people brave or crazy enough to get near them.
- By the way, the ground might just open up and swallow your house.
Flickr/U.S. Geological Survey And if none of that is scary enough for you, Florida is also known to have a sinkhole problem. Sinkholes are terrifying because the ground can drop out from under your home or other structure, and you can imagine how much damage that can do.
- Nothing keeps us out of the water.
Flickr/Daniel Piraino We also routinely have notifications of flesh-eating bacteria at our beaches or brain-eating amoeba in our lakes, not to mention the beach’s rip currents, plaguing our waters. All this, and yet nothing seems to keep Floridians from their beloved waters.
- We endure extreme heat for months out of the year.
Flickr/Robert S. Donovan You have to be tough to survive our six-month summers.
- And to make it worse, very high humidity.
Flickr/Valerie And the humidity ensures it always feels even hotter than it really is, and prevents your body from effectively self-cooling.
- All those stories don’t scare us away.
Flickr/Flood G. Whether its crime or craziness (or both), reading Florida’s news would have most people heading for the hills. Somehow most of us have learned to cope with all the bad news and follow the sun.
What are some other challenges with living in Florida? And what do think makes people here so tough? Please share with us below!
Flickr/Florida Sea Grant
No one here has forgotten Hurricane Andrew in 1992 and we’ll get through any others that come our way.
Flickr/Scotto Bear
Don’t try to tell me wind capable of doing that wouldn’t scare you a little bit.
Flickr/maf04
There has always been crazy weather in Florida, and yet, we all choose to stay.
Flickr/Trish Hartmann
Depending on where you live, alligators are common enough that people have unexpected contact with them more often than they’d probably like. Gators like this one often end up in yards and pools of unsuspecting homeowners.
Flickr/Chuck Patch
Gators aren’t the only frightening animals we host. Florida is home to everything form sharks to rattlesnakes. and plenty of people brave or crazy enough to get near them.
Flickr/U.S. Geological Survey
And if none of that is scary enough for you, Florida is also known to have a sinkhole problem. Sinkholes are terrifying because the ground can drop out from under your home or other structure, and you can imagine how much damage that can do.
Flickr/Daniel Piraino
We also routinely have notifications of flesh-eating bacteria at our beaches or brain-eating amoeba in our lakes, not to mention the beach’s rip currents, plaguing our waters. All this, and yet nothing seems to keep Floridians from their beloved waters.
Flickr/Robert S. Donovan
You have to be tough to survive our six-month summers.
Flickr/Valerie
And the humidity ensures it always feels even hotter than it really is, and prevents your body from effectively self-cooling.
Flickr/Flood G.
Whether its crime or craziness (or both), reading Florida’s news would have most people heading for the hills. Somehow most of us have learned to cope with all the bad news and follow the sun.
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