Info needed from Florida residents

[danc30]

Originally Posted by rokndad

Like they said, ask about the red tide and the bugs!!! Especially the Love Bugs. No s**t, they join in twos during their mating season and fly around tangled up with each other, and splat all over the front of your car. Sometimes they are so thick, they dim the sun. Virtually impossible to get the bug stains out of the paint, let alone have them easily come off chrome! I have never seen anything like this...only in Florida....

Lived here 9 years, an hour and a half north of Palm Coast, Not sure I've seen the love bugs too bad. If your car is waxed good and you clean it off after a run, your ok. rokndad must not clean his car too often.

I am only aware of a couple short times of red tide. They were brief. Just don't eat the shellfish at that time.

Come on down, the weather is great. No earthquakes, riots, mudslides or blizzards......

Dan

[yamazee]

Dan, I am with you! The weather is great, none of the other annoying things to put up with like there were back in NY. Occasional hurricane threat is no big deal, I sometimes look forward to the high surf we get a few times a year. It just means its time to get the stand up Jetski out of the garage and hit the beach to jump some huge surf!! Woooohoooo!! Come on down, the weather is here, wish you were beutifull!!

[Power Surge]

Originally Posted by danc30

Lived here 9 years, an hour and a half north of Palm Coast, Not sure I've seen the love bugs too bad. If your car is waxed good and you clean it off after a run, your ok. rokndad must not clean his car too often.

I am only aware of a couple short times of red tide. They were brief. Just don't eat the shellfish at that time.

Come on down, the weather is great. No earthquakes, riots, mudslides or blizzards......

Dan

The problem with love bugs is that the guts become highly acidic after 24hrs of being splat. So if you don't wash them off the car, they will eat the paint right down to the fiberglass.

With that said, I've been here through 3 love bug seasons (which are about twice a year) and have had no issues. Really, people just don't drive or ride during those times. It's kind of the opposite of NY - you drive all winter, and skip the middle of the summer because of the heat and love bugs.

As for the red tide, I experienced that when we first moved down. It's nasty. You can't breathe, and it makes you cough bad. But it's only near the beach, so just stay away from the beach and you're fine.

[rokndad]

Originally Posted by danc30

Lived here 9 years, an hour and a half north of Palm Coast, Not sure I've seen the love bugs too bad. If your car is waxed good and you clean it off after a run, your ok. rokndad must not clean his car too often.

I am only aware of a couple short times of red tide. They were brief. Just don't eat the shellfish at that time.

Come on down, the weather is great. No earthquakes, riots, mudslides or blizzards......

Dan

It wasn't my car, it was my daughter's car...a convertible which she had to drive everyday for work (she was a reporter/anchor for WFTS ABC Tampa/St. Petersburg) and we were there about every 3-4 months or so over a 5 and 1/2 yr period of her contract. She didn't wax it very often....do you know busy careeer women that do? Not the point. I was simply pointing out the fact that you get bugs in Florida, that you generally don't see similar types of or quantity anywhere else in the United States....and I mean so thick they can block the sun. I've seen it, and stayed inside to avoid it.

Now, back to earthquakes, traffic and smog.

[Dominik]

Jupiter!

Even if it was only half as pretty as it was in the mid 90s, I would go there.

Dom