Clueless in Tampa...and Jax
Posted by
BobbiStorm on 7/12/2011, 7:36 am
Miami is Miami, south of the Lake and a different climate zone actually from the north and central part of the state. Miami is truly the tropics, it is the northernmost city in the Caribbean...
Now Tampa...and Jax are really clueless when it comes to Hurricanes.
Tampa thinks they will only get strong tropical storms riding up frontal boundaries late in the fall and Jax thinks there is some voodoo gypsy queen somewhere who put a curse on Marathon in the Keys and protected Jacksonville from a direct hit.
Both are untrue... both will get slammed by a major storm.
As much as Tampa was a boom town in the Roaring 20s the Tarpon Springs Hurricane of 1921 probably did more so slow the boom than the Great Miami Hurricane did to break the boom in Miami.
Real historians will tell you the Boom died in the winter of 1925 when real estate sales did not match the advertised winter real estate selling season. Bad press up north, new laws regarding investing in...um swamp land that was sight un seen, a railroad strike the stopped supplies was further exacerbated by the Prinz Valedemar vessel turning over in the middle of Biscayne Bay prohibiting building supplies from getting in or out for months.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1921_Tampa_Bay_hurricane
Slowed the boom.... one can only imagine how much stronger the boom might have been in 1922 and 1923 had this storm not hit and scared investors.. Silly investors up north thought Miami was safe from real weather damage.
People do love the blame weather for everything however.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prinz_Valdemar
Truth is some big, Category 3 or 4 storm will make a hard left under an entrenched suddenly stroner high ala Andrew and slam into Jacksonville... God help them... and the Red Cross.
As for Tampa... the clock is ticking.. . . . . . |
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