A question even more about Florida
Where my brother lives there is a long winding lake, and I think such lakes are common all over south florida.
Man-made?
For appearance, I suppose.
So why are there no benches so one can sit, relax, look at the water all the lizards?
Is this typical or is there something wrong with where he lives?
Florida does have 30,000 lakes. Also have more sinkholes than any other state.
Good chance there are alligators too, thus no benches. A few people have been killed in the past month in or near water. Couple of dogs too. The only standing water I'll go into is in a bathtub.
There are a few ponds in my development. No benches. No know alligators but I'm still not getting close.
Someone warned my brother about alligators.
So am I in danger just standing there?
I'm already on my feet so that saves me one or two seconds, but it seems like one or two seconds don't make me much safer!
Most lake aren't connected to any other water are they? There are no underground culverts connecting one n'hood's lake from another, are there? So an alligator would have to walk across the street to get to the next lake?
I saw a 12 or 15" long lizard swimming in the lake. Is he in danger of being eaten? If there were several and they didn't seem to disappear, would that mean there are no gators?
BTW, he was , each almost an inch wide. Do you know what kind that is?
I do know someone from some mailing list 10 years ago and she lives next to a golf course in Titusville Fl. and she said she can't let her little granddaughter go outside because of the gators that live in the golf course water hazards. But at least they call them hazards.
Was there a time when no gators lived in the ponds? Did they have benches then? OTOH, if there was never a time when no gators lived in such ponds, why did they keep builing housing with ponds that could attract alligators? If there are alligators, eventually not having benches won't be enough to save someone.
That does seem wise.
You saved me. I tried to use sat view, and maybe I could get close enough to see a bench, but then moving sideways would take a long time. The other choice was to borrow a car, drive around to a bunch of n'hoods, and check for benches. Now I don't have to.
I'd keep at least 10 feet or more away.
Yes, and on occasion they do. They have been here for 8 million years.
Yikes.
That settles it. I was going home Sunday but now I'm leaving Friday**
That would be interesting.
Tnaks for keeping this. I missed it the first time.
**Actually I'm leaving early but not because of this. My sister in law, corona mary, returned early. She refuses to get vaccinated, but she did suggest4 I visit my brother when she's not around. They were both in Dallas but he came back earlier. A friend of his called today, another doctor, who thinks he and his wife both got covid on the plane from Detroit, because of the woman behind them sneezing (and they were both very sick, plus his wife has some underlying serious chronic illness.)And my SIL talked to him too before coming back and knew he thought they got sick on the plane, and she still didn't wear a mask on the plane. But she says she had one if anyone told her to wear one. But wearing one for me is not on her schedule. The odds are she's not sick and won't get sick but she ticks me off, and I'm going home.
She also says she's had corona 4 times! And iirc that it was terrible. So I guess her "natural" antibodies don't work very well.
I'm mostly been concerned that she'll infect my brother, also an M.D. but he seems not to worry about it. He's vaccinated and boosted but he's 82 and shouldn't have to put up with corona mary living in his home.
Alligator fatalities average about one a year but maybe they will find you particularly tasty.
I rented a canoe at the Stephen Foster State Park up on the Okefenokee Swamp. There are a few gators there, about 12,000. They showed no interest in me as I paddled along but the little grin on their saurian faces.
On Thu, 4 Aug 2022 07:42:55 -0600, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling, troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:
You are a hero! Almost as grand, or perhaps even grander, as Stumpie is, bigmouth!
I was walking with a couple of guys out to an observation point in the Everglades when we saw a small, maybe five foot long, gator in water off path. One guy wanted to take a picture but there was too much shade so the other guy went to lift a branch shading it and all we saw was a a gaping mouth. We ran back to the path and it stayed there.
Another time in Hilton Head on a golf course I saw I guy on the putting green poking a very large alligator with his golf club. Caddy said he was nuts to do that.
Just read this on Facebook:
"When a group of tourists visited a crocodile farm, the owner of the place launched a daring proposal;-Whoever dares to jump, swim to shore and survive, I will give 1 million dollars.
Nobody dared to move, suddenly a man jumped into the water and desperately swam towards the shore while he was chased by all the crocodiles.
With great luck he arrived, taking the admiration of everyone in the place, then the owner announced;-We have a brave winner.
After collecting their reward, the couple returned to the hotel, upon arrival, the manager told him; he was very brave to jump, then the man said;-I didn't jump, someone pushed me!
His wife smiled ...
Moral: "Behind every successful man, there is a woman who pushes him."
Depending on the details getting bitten might be worse than getting killed.
From the list Ed posted. July 25, this year
Just build a bench. Less stress than a bench in Chicago wearing bling.
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