[Felis_irritable]

Beat me by what, 5 minutes? The gloom and doomers would say that they can predict overall trends, but I still agree that if they can't predict a few thoudsand square miles' weather a day or two ahead, how can they predict the planet 50 years out?

BTW, my mother-in-law has a winter place close to Ft. Myers. She thinks it's OK, I think she's in denial. We'll find out in a day or two.

[Patton@Bastogne]

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Felis_irritable,

BTW, my mother-in-law has a winter place close to Ft. Myers. She thinks it's OK, I think she's in denial. We'll find out in a day or two.


I live in the Tampa-St. Pete area. Yes, it's true that Tampa was the media's focus for three days straight ...

BUT ... EVERY televised Hurricane Charley forecast showed a pretty wide "probable target zone" that extended at least 100 hundred miles EITHER SIDE on the "straight path" to Tampa.


The poor folks (some deceased) in Sanibel, Captiva, Fort Meyers, and points north simply have no excuse for getting caught in the storm. They were just plain IDIOTS.


Previous hurricanes have taught "real" Floridans (as opposed to DAMNED transplanted Chicago and New York liberal Yankees) that hurricanes are quite unpredictable.


"Real Floridians" know how to vote at a ballot box (even if they're democrats), don't call this state "FLA-RAH-DAH", and RESPECT alligators, sharks, and hurricanes.



The "trailer park" town that was wiped out ?

Average age is 70 years old. That says it all. Just a bunch of stupid elderly AARP medicade-junkies living in flimsey house trailers, driving and killing younger folks and familis off the highways during the rest of the year.


BTW. Your mother-in-law's house ? It's history ... Maybe she'll do us all a favor and Stay-Up-North ...


Patton@Bastogne


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