[bill1952]

since when is the approach -- nay, the possibility of an approach -- of a hurricane an emergency?

Apparently, you do not live here.

The declaring of a SOE helps us quite a bit, in many ways, notwithstanding your paranoid blather.

This hurricane IS hitting Florida, and we are thankful for Jeb Bush.

[the invisib1e hand]

Apparently, you do not live here.

I lived there for 20 years.

I am very well aware of the partisan denial that infects otherwise healthy minds (how much more so the Floridian mind), as well.

If the approach of a hurricane is an "emergency," than so is the approach of an asteroid, or global warming.

Re: my paranoid blather: Please, by all means, enumerate to me your constitutional rights under a declared state of emergency. My question was genuine.