Hurricane Hiatus for Now. NHC Says Nada for 7 Days! Nothing. Zero. Tho Hurricane Season Doesn't End Until November 30th! A Humorous Look at Life in the Tropics... Like Miami & Rest of FL Cause Sometimes We Need to Laugh !!
It hasn't been easy to post ...post Melissa. There isn't much going on tropically speaking and while there are a few models and some discussion I feel it's too soon to go there unless there is a good chance of development. Wishing doesn't make something so ... but I'd like people to have the illusion it can as the Hurricane Season doesn't end til November 30th for a reason.
So I ventured onto X this afternoon after avoiding it this morning and I saw this post. To be honest, I have never seen her posts before that I remember and I don't follow but it made me laugh. DaBuh had been singing the "Florida is full do not come to Florida Song" all year and he's way up North in Jacksonville near the border with Georgia.
I have some friends in Florida, because you know everyone has a cousin in Miami... Who along with Dabuh want me to remind you that Florida is full and that you should be aware the tropical natives include alligators, pythons, flying cockaroaches (the unofficial State Bird) and iguanas that grow up to 6 feet or more and sun themselves on your roof, your patio and swim in your backyard pool. They poop in the pool. My brother got rid of his pool, he could never use it and he's a native but growing up it wasn't a problem.
The Iguna horrors started years back when small pet stores sold imported Iguanas that are the rabbit's of the reptile world and people bought them for their kids when they were small, little, cute green lizards. They grow fast, I had a neighbor growing up in a very redneck part of Miami (really) his name was Timmy, he was my friend Jimmy's older brother (really) and at some point he would walk his Iguana on a leash and mind you it was over 6 feet long and would scowl at everyone as he walked by because they like to run wild. When I say run wild they actually took over every golf course in Hollywood; one course was shut down and sold to a developer as it was fairly impossible to golf between them running everywhere. Sounds like I am joking but you cannot imagine. They migrated down to North Miami Beach (they love the canal and took over the park sunning themselves on the banks of Snake Creek) and totally took over Hallandale. My daughter loves to sunbathe. She Facetimed me when she moved into her new apartment "Mommy, OMG what the hell? Mommy they won't go away even when I chase them all I want to do is sunbathe by the pool and they jump in ...what the" (Sigh) When she left Miami for Brooklyn it seems North Miami Beach did not have iguanas just manatees in Snake Creek; sadly the iguanas chased the beautiful, big, lumbering Manatees away.
Last story about Iguanas.
My daughter has a brother who lived in Crown Heights a long time and decided to move back to Miami, he missed the angst I guess of watching the Miami Dolphins lose. They looked at a beautiful house in Walnut Creek a gated community built around beautiful lakes. He and all his friends moved up there from North Miami Beach (IYKYU) and they bought houses there. He packed up the truck and moved to Walnut Creek. First Morning there they opened the blinds to look out through the sliding glass door to look at the sunrise view of the lake and there were 3 large iguanas sunning themselves, watching the beautiful sunrise over the lake and my daughter-in-law whose born and raised in Boro Park shut the curtains quick and well it took a long while for her to get used to sharing and chasing away the local, tropical fauna she had never heard of nor seen in a Zoo In New York City. I'm not kidding one was over 6 feet long probably with it's 2 kiddie iguanas 3 feet long and it turned to them and sneered at them like "haha the realtors didn't tell you about us did they" and that's true as they tend to chase them away and pray ... I've heard there's something you can put out to scare them away until it rains and washes it away ...which happens often at 3 PM every day in the Rainy Season.
I do have a son who actually went on a Iguana chasing party that's vaguely legal, a guy tours the canals of Broward County (Hollywood) and snags them and sells Iguana Wallets . . . That's a thing see below.
Welcome to Miami and other parts of South Florida on the East and West Coast. This is a real news story below. In Cape Coral they worry more on Iguanas than they do hurricanes that do often happen but rarely make direct landfall. But in Florida, every morning your yard is covered with Iguanas unless you hire the Iguana Hunter who gets rid of them for a while...
Ps North Carolina is full too! Between South Florida people running away from the heat, hurricanes and the Iquanas for the seasons where you get a drop of snow but it's not New England and those leaving New York for a calmer way of life, seasons and "it's not Miami" as they have often said to me. Apparently it's okay to move to Fort Myers but people up north are afraid of life in Miami. Fun for a vacation but they don't want to live there so they go to Naples and Fort Myers. I was told it has to do with crime.
The real Miami kids, like me, are living up in the Carolinas, Louisiana, Georgia and a few even moved to Virginia. Close enough to visit relatives in Florida but they were tired of living there for reasons I won't go into that arrived before the Iguanas, Pythons (also pets released) and alligators in the canal and they are definitely done with flying cockroaches all year round.
Video if you don't believe me.....
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