A fascinating article with insightful comments.
A roadgeek wishes to say “thank you” :-) And the photos on aaroads.com of I 4 are just great. The road looks just spectacular!
But I had no clue that frost was such a problem for agriculture in Central Florida.
One leans a new fact every day here on FR - and that does me a world of good :-)
Severe cold winters in Florida are just frequent enough to devastate citrus in the middle of the state every few decades. Back in the mid-60s, I was visiting family friends as a boy and saw how an untimely hard freeze had shattered the trunks of citrus trees on the exposed crest of a hill. That firmly disabused me of boyhood romantic notions of a life of ease and security as a citrus grove owner. The paradox is that some cold weather -- just enough at the right time -- helps to set citrus fruit toward sweet maturity.
Severe cold winters in Florida are just frequent enough to devastate citrus in the middle of the state every few decades. Back in the mid-60s, I was visiting family friends as a boy and saw how an untimely hard freeze had shattered the trunks of citrus trees on the exposed crest of a hill. That firmly disabused me of boyhood romantic notions of a life of ease and security as a citrus grove owner. The paradox is that some cold weather -- just enough at the right time -- helps to set citrus fruit toward sweet maturity.