Good luck to everyone in FL today. Sounds like you have a big one coming.
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Iâve never met anyone in Delaware who cared what they might have been considered. And Iâve never met anyone in Delaware who cared what people in other states thought they were.
Delawareans are more concerned with whether âlower Delawareâ or âbelow the canalâ is an epithet or not. That and insisting one goes âto the beachâ and never âdown a shoreâ as they say in parts of PA and NJ.
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Born and raised in the Louisville, KY area. Pronounced âLoolvullâ. Actually lived on the Indiana side of the Ohio River. So⊠I was born and raised where the North meets the South but Iâve spent most of my life in North Carolina. Sometimes pronounced âNawth Callahnaâ.
In my youth we watched out for tornadoes. Now, of course, itâs hurricanes.
When we lived in Clearwater (<Yr CENTCOM) I had a couple Floridians tell me âyou know what ruined Florida? air conditioning !!! My mom lives in Punta Gorda in the winter and my in-laws live on Amelia Island. I wonder if they get hit.
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Punta Gorda is in good shape this morning - no significant impact (family there). Amelia Island likely to have a rougher time of it - hopefully wind speeds will fall as Idalia passes over land this morning. Cedar Key and the Big Bend areas not a pretty picture, but Clearwater has been lucky.
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Not sure why the beach turns into the shore east and north of Delaware Bay, but it definitely does. Local/regional language can be so interesting. Uff da!
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We lived on Shoreline Drive in Clearwater and the issue was the surge would back the sewers up.
It never came into our house but I was always âholding my breath.â Once I was there alone and the lightning hit a house on our street and blew the roof off. All our screen doors popped off all around the house.
All good here in St Pete FL after Idalia. Didnât lose power, and really no wind damage that I have heard of, but there is significant flooding along the coast. Water levels are finally dropping now. I havenât been down to the marina but several of my neighbors have and report that all is OK.
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Those Floridians were correct. Generals Grant & Sherman may have beaten the CSA into surrender, however it was Willis H. Carrier, the father of modern air conditioning, who destroyed the South with overpopulation by inventing home air conditioning.
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My father built a beach house in the 50s
Lots of windows and I only remember a couple of bad nights. He added AC in the 60s after my brother and I left home.
We had no AC at home either. You just get a fan and enjoy the sweat.
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HmmmâŠcomplicated!
My current home is in South Carolina, but only for the last five years. Prior to that my wife and I lived in New Jersey for over 30 years, and in Montreal, but Iâm really a Brit who was born and raised in Liverpool.
And right now, we are in Nova Scotia kayaking on beautiful St. Margaretâs Bay. Our two 10 year old Hullavators with our CD kayaks on them handled the almost 1700 mile trip up here at highway speeds with no problems.
And my security cameras back in SC seem to show that with Idalia we have dodged another bullet.
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Oh, Iâm envious. So many wonderful venues all around NS.
Thank you!
My wife is Nova Scotian and has lots of family here so we come up for a month every year. It is beautiful in the summer months. 
Glad to here the storm surge wasnât too bad for you. South Tampa had a fairly bad storm surge, but I live in North Tampa and we didnât even end up with a large amount of debris, after Ian bypassed us I filled three trash bags with debris.
The good thing about central to south Florida is that it is too far south the be southern. It is hard to find someone born here, just adoptees, refugees from big urban centers and cold. The heat is getting to be the same almost everywhere.
Because there are so many transplants here, the war between the states doesnât mean as much as in the deep south. That might be a good thing, though history is best not to be forgotten.
Hoping for brighter things soon is better than dwelling in the past and creating more division. We have paddling to hold us together, let it continue to do that.
âToo far south to be southernâ, I like that! And I think that coastal South Carolina might be too far east to be southern as the vast majority of the residents there seem to be transplants. To find a majority of southerners though, you donât have to go too far inland.
Thatâs because most natives canât afford to live at the beach. You have to be extremely well off to afford property there.
Hilton Head is a good example. Families who have lived there for generations are constantly under pressure by developers and politicians to seÄșl.
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That is true. And itâs definitely not just Hilton Head. I think you can say that for just about the entire east coast.
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Or any âresortâ community anywhereâŠ
Virginia. Born there but got carried away at a young age. Iâve been back home now for 25 years. The term âDixieâ isnât derived from the Mason-Dixon line but from the 10 (Dix) franc bill which was the common currency in New Orleans at the time.
Hey! We on the Eastern Shore donât have an accent. Itâs the rest of you silly basâŠuh, people who do.
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