It's SOOO Cold Outside...
Awaken21
might've actually gotten into the low 50's around here last night.
Love and warm thoughts from the Sunshine State!
beerlet dhiblang
Up here in Florgia & Floribama it's a bit colder but we've cut our
heating bill by 90%.
Our electric heating bill would have been astronomical by now ($350/mo
+) but the kerosene heater has been paying off. We've heated the house
with only $50 of kerosene in the past 2 months.
We're renting a house in a "white flight" 1990's-era suburb for now,
filled with shoddily constructed houses. Ours is one of the most
poorly built in the neighborhood - with very thin exterior walls (like
a mobile home trailer). So for such a young structure our hut gets
fridgid overnight - when we get a -1 C / 29 F overnight low, it's 7
C / 45 F inside.
/l
Awaken21
News last night said we were the only state (and yes that includes Hawaii) that doesn't have some kind of snowfall somewhere.
We were pretty happy when all the white people fled to northern florida.
It would be better if we weren't sending our tax money to the north in order to keep supporting them, but I/we continue to fight that fight.
GogMaGog
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here in the upper midwest we are being told
that this is the coldest january in 26 years.
thank you al gore.
beerlet dhiblang
> We were pretty happy when all the white people fled to northern florida.
Actually it's something like 15% of Florida residents 25 & older are
native-born. Tallahassee itself is 1/3rd black, something some of the
WASP contigent still acts allergic to....
Miami.... I lived on 16th Street & 19th Ave (Shenandoah section) in
the 1970's, came back last year after leaving Fla in the 1980's. My
GGPs settled in Miami in the 1910's, remember the '26 & '34 DEATH
STORMS. I remember the 1980 Anne Bishop poop debacle, Bibi Rebozo,
decapitated cocaine cowboys on the docks near the Deering Estate, the
old Miami Zoo, the Parrot Jungle, Cocoanut Grove when it was actually
cool....
> It would be better if we weren't sending our tax money to the
> north in order to keep supporting them, but I/we continue
> to fight that fight.
Tallahassee has always been depressed, chronically high unemployment
since forever. Ed Ball got roads to nowhere built way back when but
that's ancient history.
IIRC Florida state gov't is around the 45th cheapest state gov't per
capita & 40th in total size (personnel). Oh, and no pay raises in
EIGHT years, not even during the boom. And now that Florida's in a
real depression the state is cutting benefits to boot.
/l
DT
Oh, good; now Wilson's got somebody to talk to!
DT
GogMaGog
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i remember many years ago somebody
was saying that "earth changes", whatever
the hell those are, would give us up here
in the upper midwest florida like weather
by the year 2000. guess i'm in the wong
neighborhood cuz i just went out and shoveled
the snow once again.
Awaken21
> On Jan 13, 11:43 am, Awaken21 <lukecar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > We were pretty happy when all the white people fled to northern florida.
>
> Actually it's something like 15% of Florida residents 25 & older are
> native-born. Tallahassee itself is 1/3rd black, something some of the
> WASP contigent still acts allergic to....
>
The state is funny, go from the metro areas to the rural areas and
EVERYTHING changes.
> Miami.... I lived on 16th Street & 19th Ave (Shenandoah section) in
> the 1970's, came back last year after leaving Fla in the 1980's. My
> GGPs settled in Miami in the 1910's, remember the '26 & '34 DEATH
> STORMS. I remember the 1980 Anne Bishop poop debacle, Bibi Rebozo,
> decapitated cocaine cowboys on the docks near the Deering Estate, the
> old Miami Zoo, the Parrot Jungle, Cocoanut Grove when it was actually
> cool....
>
Me too. We lived at 149th and 10th ave. Later we moved to Broward.
> > It would be better if we weren't sending our tax money to the
> > north in order to keep supporting them, but I/we continue
> > to fight that fight.
>
> Tallahassee has always been depressed, chronically high unemployment
> since forever.
Most of rural parts of Florida tend towards that model.
> Ed Ball got roads to nowhere built way back when but
> that's ancient history.
>
> IIRC Florida state gov't is around the 45th cheapest state gov't per
> capita & 40th in total size (personnel). Oh, and no pay raises in
> EIGHT years, not even during the boom. And now that Florida's in a
> real depression the state is cutting benefits to boot.
"Right to work" means right to work your ass off and starve anyway.
>
> /l
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beerlet dhiblang
> Me too. We lived at 149th and 10th ave
That was up there where Ferre's buddy was planning that theme park
"Interrrrrama...."
> "Right to work" means right to work your ass off and starve anyway.
Yup.
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