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If the rent-seeker doesn't use it, they lose it.

I think driving on it in the morning was punishment enough.... (that's live - check it out during east-coast rush hour)

Workers managed to set a cell tower on fire while welding in Florida. I do wonder if those 12-16 hour work days contributed to that mistake.

The study was based on congestion factor. Not the actual amount of traffic. http://www.baynews9.com/content/news/articles/bn9/2012/7/18/tampa_traffic_among_.html

The top 5 are: LA, Vancouver, Miami, Seattle, and then Tampa. All cities that are also on your list. Of your list, I have driven numerous times in Boston, DC, Chicago, Miami, and Atlanta. Only Boston is worse than Tampa imo.

It honestly sounds like you have never driven in Tampa. Most out-of-towners I have met unanimously agree Tampa is one of the worse. The lack of public transportation (as you even pointed out) adds that much more stress to the road system.

Why don't I see any BP boycott campaigns anywhere?

Probably you just haven't looked. There has been a massive boycott here in Florida: one, two, three. BTW -- If you're going to boycott BP, you need to boycott all of BP's brands, too.

Why don't I see any BP boycott campaigns anywhere?

Probably you just haven't looked. There has been a massive boycott here in Florida: one, two, three. BTW -- If you're going to boycott BP, you need to boycott all of BP's brands, too.

Why don't I see any BP boycott campaigns anywhere?

Probably you just haven't looked. There has been a massive boycott here in Florida: one, two, three. BTW -- If you're going to boycott BP, you need to boycott all of BP's brands, too.

I think the problem is that Pickens thinks too big. The real solution is not a centralized one, but a decentralized one, involving personal wind turbines.

    Let me rephrase my previous response.

    Hurricanes happen a lot. Category 5 hurricanes happen enough to make it a concern.

    Volcano's erupt ... umm ... Well, the last major eruption in the US was Mt. St. Helens in 1980, and there haven't been any major eruptions in the last decade.

      Compare that to 8 Category 5 hurricanes in the Atlantic in the last decade.

    Or we could look at a longer time span. 14 major volcanic eruptions world wide in the last century. There were at least 32 Category 5 North Atlantic hurricanes and 12 Category 5 Pacific Cyclones in the last century, but there may have been more that were not detected since our technology wasn't good enough to detect them.

    The list of total hurricanes is really long. Long enough where I couldn't find a straight list of them. Just looking at hurricanes that hit Florida there have been 327 in the last century.

    We kind of joke about some of them though. It's sometimes hard to tell the difference between a regular afternoon thunderstorm, tropical depression, tropical storm, or category 1 or 2 hurricane, without a proper weather forecast. We can have storms that knock down trees that are just thunderstorms. There was a thunderstorm not too long ago that induced tornados that destroyed several homes. Here's an example from 2007, where a building collapsed, and several vehicles were overturned. Here's another example from 2006 of approx 100 homes damaged, 15 condemned after the storm. Both of these are NOT tropical weather formation related.

    They broadcast warnings on all stations on the radio and TV (that pesky EAS thing) to let people know to seek shelter. I used to have a neat add-on on my old work cell phone that would beep at me and show me the text and map of dangerous weather. We were out shopping a few years ago, and as it turned out a tornado was headed directly towards us. We got went inside a safe building, and they advised all customers to get to the back of the store, just in case. No panic. No "oh my god, it's the end of the world", just get back where it's safe, away from the windows. The tornado dissipated before it reached us, but there were power lines down, and trees thrown across roads.

I remembered seeing this this pop up in a local news story. I did some digging and found this:

http://www.baynews9.com/content/36/2005/10/19/1243 28.html

You can also read about his fire truck purchase:

http://www.baynews9.com/content/36/2005/7/17/10867 0.html

And his escape from death:

http://www.baynews9.com/content/36/2005/1/18/68439 .html

I remembered seeing this this pop up in a local news story. I did some digging and found this:

http://www.baynews9.com/content/36/2005/10/19/1243 28.html

You can also read about his fire truck purchase:

http://www.baynews9.com/content/36/2005/7/17/10867 0.html

And his escape from death:

http://www.baynews9.com/content/36/2005/1/18/68439 .html

I remembered seeing this this pop up in a local news story. I did some digging and found this:

http://www.baynews9.com/content/36/2005/10/19/1243 28.html

You can also read about his fire truck purchase:

http://www.baynews9.com/content/36/2005/7/17/10867 0.html

And his escape from death:

http://www.baynews9.com/content/36/2005/1/18/68439 .html

I think as long as you realize that there are some things you have to take with a grain of salt on the net, and you don't ever rely on one strict source for everything (but instead substantiate it with other sources), the Net can be pretty reliable.

In this St. Pete Times story, this Bay News 9 story, or even yeterday's slashdot article.