People around here are talking about the big dip in temps coming for the weekend. And at least for this Miami Expatriate, this is not a joke.
But unfortunately, idiots abound everywhere.
“I have been living here (X amount) of years and it was never this cold. You could literally go all winter in shorts and now it is like Alaska. I believe this Global Warming thing is going to kill us.“
I bit my lip so hard, I almost cracked my dentures and had to get stitches in the inside of my mouth. I just finished my meal and left the location.
The problem with stupid is that it multiplies.
The coldest temperature ever recorded in Florida was -2 degrees in Tallahassee in 1899. Was that global warming, too?
It was 19 degrees one cold pre-Christmas day in Gainesville in 1989. So cold the rain froze on all the roads and nobody could move. One of my wife’s doctors, who has always lived in Gainesville, assured us one year that that never happened. Oh, yes it did. You could hear cars sliding into each other on I-75 from our house.
Before that in the mid-1970’s, the big freezes killed all the orange groves from the Georgia border down to just north of Orlando.
And Florida used to be the big pineapple exporter until that 1899 freeze. Pineapple was a major cash crop and freight hauled on the Florida East Coast.
If we had some global warming.