LOL.... Have you had the pleasure of visiting, Clewiston? Good grief, that is a very strange crowd.
Here’s a link to the Orlando Sentinel about how Dorian could affect them. The reporter has been updating the story every few hours...
“Have you had the pleasure of visiting, Clewiston?”
Way too damned many times. If anyone out there has wondered where “Florida Man” may have been born and raised, Lee County is as good a guess as any other.
Bad county government, bad cops, bad roads, bad schools, bad attitudes, bad social skills, etc...
Even Larry The Cable Guy wouldn’t wanna live there...
Sugar Can, Capt. For a hundred years— Sugar Cane. Now with some outbuild of tract cheapo homes. Lake Okeechobee— an inland sea.
Time was the cane was all owned by General Motors Corporation, its U.S. Sugar Division. 50s- 60s time period. Seasonal sugar cane cutters— all Jamaicans flown in to cut and burn the cane fields, with temporary housing, special police, and the locals who could, stayed the hell away. Mechanical harvesting now. Belle Glade.. same way-— oh, and at one time coupled with appalling public health issues— highest AIDS census in the US.
Largest whole orange juice processor in the US is in Clewiston area— Snively Citrus (olde Florida). Bit of trivia for the rocknroller banana types— Gram Parsons was from Lakeland, FL to a Snively mother, and a drunk crazy father (whom they sent to Waycross, GA to run a citrus wooden crate making company- he was a major drunk, blew his brains out, and the mom moved to New Orleans and married Mr. Parsons who changed Gram’s last name. Did him no good— he O’D out West, a rich trust fund stoner “rocker”).
There is a lot of oddness in Clewiston with all the sugar and Agri history— long growing season, and not much to do— unless you can get to the west coast and fish.