Thursday, December 01, 2005

saying goodbye to hurricane season

It's over. Finally. It may seem odd to have the official season run this late in the year but on November 30, 1925, a hurricane came in south of Tampa Bay, crossed over Tampa, and caused death and destruction.

We thought 2004 was a bad year and it was, but then 2005 came along. I shudder to think about next year.

There are people in Florida still living with blue tarp roofs after more than a year, and FEMA's temporary housing is still occupied. Defenders of the Bush Administration blame the governor of Louisiana and the mayor of New Orleans for the federal incompetencies of this season, but I don't hear them blaming Gov. Jeb Bush for their lingering incompetencies in Florida.

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