My thoughts are with the people of Florida.
That is a bad thing about Florida is the storms. When I was there we had a tornado, and then I had to evacuate when Hurricane David hit Florida. I went to Florida with the Space Shuttle program, I had a step dad who was one of the main guys on the Shuttle program. I lived right on the beach in Cape Canaveral, it was great. But, then Hurricane David hit and I had to go back to the desert. Then when the first Space Shuttle flew they landed it in the desert and I got to be there to watch it land, and President Reagan was there and he gave a speech. The Cape is a cool place, and the people there are great people, everyone lives everyday like it is a vacation. And I saw Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin play at a blues club on the beach with a band named The Groove Monsters, in Cocoa Beach, it was right on the sand, great club, that was a great night.
Florida is great, but the storms are a bad part of living there. Just like here in California we have to worry about earthquakes. The buildings can be built with the facts in mind, we know about the earthquakes so we build buildings to withstand earthquakes, and in Florida they can build to try to withstand hurricanes.
Of note, the Philippines just had a hurricane too, but they are used to it, they get hurricanes all of the time.
Salute,
Tony V.