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Lessons every new resident of Florida should learn right away
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| Posted by: Emory Schley |
9/14/2007 4:51 AM |
There are some lessons most new residents of Florida generally need to learn right away: Don’t mess with the alligators, avoid the rattlesnakes, don’t bother telling the rest of us how it’s done up North, and buy a good, reliable air-conditioner.
That’ll at least get you off to a good start. But another point that should always be on everyone’s list, but isn’t, is this: Keep a keen eye on the weather! There’s an imaginary corridor roughly 100 miles wide that runs from Tampa to Jacksonville, and that encompasses all of Beautiful Marion County. Inside this corridor, more lightning strikes are recorded than anywhere else in the nation. It is truly the lighting capital of the United States, and is – if my memory serves correctly – about number 3 on the list of most lightning strikes recorded anywhere in the entire world! So, keep that in mind the next time you see one of those boiling thunderstorms approach from the horizon. Stay indoors. You’re much safer there than out unprotected in Mother Nature’s raw domain.
And keeping an eye on the weather has never been easier in the entire history of mankind, than it is right now. Your computer and the Internet can bring a wealth of information to you, showing you just what type of weather to expect should you choose to walk out the front door (or through the back door, for that matter). Any number of Web sites are just sitting there waiting patiently for you to access them so they can show you, in real time, exactly what’s going on outside. You might want to check out www.marioncountyweather.com . Another good one is: www.wunderground.com/US/FL/ocala.html or you might want to spend some time at: http://radar.weather.gov:80/Conus/full_loop.php which will give you a pretty good picture of what is happening all across the entire country.
There are lots more excellent sites, as well, which makes it ridiculously easy to follow that last rule and “keep a keen eye on the weather.” |
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