a couple of fires in south florida...

[cbressler1976]

It's very hot and hazy here in Pembroke Pines, Fl and I over heard on a news break that there are a couple of fires..... When is it going to rain again???
I have only lived in South Floirda for about 1 and a half to 2 years....I'm from Orlando...and I know this isn't normal!! The weather in Florida hasn't been normal in about 6 or 7 years!! ok....sorry for whining....my sinuses always hurt when there is smoke in the air!! ---thanks for letting me whine! :hug

[HSmomto4]

I was talking to my Dad today about the rain. We got all excited because there were so many white fluffy clouds in the air that "could" turn into rain clouds! Nothing though...He said by Friday we MIGHT get some rain. It is hot and dry in Lake County Florida right now! I told my husband I wanted some rain barrels to collect any rain we get to water our garden with just incase our water table drops again this year like it did last and we get put on water restrictions. It is just too hot to not water everyday in Florida!

[cbressler1976]

I was talking to my Dad today about the rain. We got all excited because there were so many white fluffy clouds in the air that "could" turn into rain clouds! Nothing though...He said by Friday we MIGHT get some rain. It is hot and dry in Lake County Florida right now! I told my husband I wanted some rain barrels to collect any rain we get to water our garden with just incase our water table drops again this year like it did last and we get put on water restrictions. It is just too hot to not water everyday in Florida!

we already have water restrictions... :( Our grass is almost brown....we can only water it twice a week before 8 and after 2 or 3....but at least we can water it....it's so bad...the news is hoping for a tropical storm!! yikes!

[SherShalom]

Brevard County Reporting. Hot and dry here too. A few brush fires here and there, so occasionally the smell of smoke. So my fellow floridians, I pray and agree with you for some rain as well ...

[HSmomto4]

we already have water restrictions... :( Our grass is almost brown....we can only water it twice a week before 8 and after 2 or 3....but at least we can water it....it's so bad...the news is hoping for a tropical storm!! yikes!

I have to be honest, I'm hoping for a tropical storm myself. I know many people don't like them, but a good storm full of rain and a little wind won't hurt us as much as this drought will. The year we got the 3 hurricanes it did such good for our water table and everything looked so pretty for a change in Florida.

[chumly175]

I use to live in FL for about 13 years and I have to say I do not miss it at all!! My family is still there in Miramar. I do a lot of praying for them.

[Glory]

After we were hit with those 3 hurricanes in 2004, it sur didn't look pretty here. :ohno Nearly every big tree was down, many on top of homes, lines and power poles down, every roof was covered in blue tarp for 2 years! The eye of Charlie went right through our city in Volusia county. We had mini tornados tear off the sides of neighbors houses. It was such a mess afterwards, every neighbor walked throughout the neighborhood in disbelief of what we saw. We lived without power for a week, and just when we finally finished clean up and got power restored.... FRANCES HIT US! Power out AGAIN for another week! :tsk THEN JEANNE the day after our power was once again restored! We were about ready to leave the state by then!

Our roof is STILL a mess from those 3 and my hubby says it won't be able to withstand another hurricane. I pray we DON'T have another.

Here in Volusia it's been hazy from the smoke. A real strong smell too. This is FIRE & DROUGHT month.Very typical. Come June we'll start getting afternoon thunderstorms every day (with severe cloud to ground lightning). That's when things will green up. :)

In 98 FL was on fire! Big time! We had to drive with our headlights on during the day time. That was a very bad fire season.

[cbressler1976]

I use to live in FL for about 13 years and I have to say I do not miss it at all!! My family is still there in Miramar. I do a lot of praying for them.

I live close to Miramar!~ I live in West Pembroke Pines....right by the Everglades....I luv it here...but I do not like the dry conditions or hurricanes....(I grew up in Orlando and we didn't have too worry about hurricanes to much....or so I thought....then came the 3 hurricanes in a row!)...

[HSmomto4]

Who knows, maybe it's just because I come from a long line of Floridians (over 100 years here in this same part of Florida) but hurricane season does not bother me and the fires don't either. I don't like the effects while in them or the few weeks after them, but the long term affect for the state out way the negative effects at the moment.

Most of us who have lived here for our entire lives know you shouldn't build near the beach, in a swamp, in a forest or where you see cypress knees! What happened was that we had builders come here and take a look at all this places they could put homes and built in places that people have no place living! I will never forget having my old boss years ago come in and tell us how he loved all the cypress trees in his front yard. We just looked at him funny and he couldn't understand why till the rainy season came. You DON'T build a house with cypress trees in your yard unless you are sitting on a lake! And even on a lake you better know it can over flow. If it is dry land with those trees, you are in for it when the weather turns to the rainy season because your house was built in a swamp (they pumped them and then built in them, but they WILL fill up again). Just a vent from an old Floridian...

[cbressler1976]

Who knows, maybe it's just because I come from a long line of Floridians (over 100 years here in this same part of Florida) but hurricane season does not bother me and the fires don't either. I don't like the effects while in them or the few weeks after them, but the long term affect for the state out way the negative effects at the moment.



Me too....except I moved to south florida a year or two ago...lol...
and it's funny u should say that about the cypress stump....my husband was working for a glass company about 8 or 9 years ago and they were installing mirrors in new houses that had pumps in the yard to pump out the water....well, every time it rained there it was flooded!! they were brand new houses!!