[L00k4ward]

Originally Posted by jmellc

I think a lot of it has to to with the "get ready for winter" thinking. Prep and stock food by whatever means. Cut plenty of extra firewood if you use it, etc. General attitude of thinking ahead. Less necessary in hotter climates with milder winters.

The video creator (your post 77) with the concept you describe overlooks a spurious connection he claims he couldn’t find between the prosperity of those in the cold climates vs those living in hot.

The white race with their culture is more likely to inhabit for a very long time the cold climates ..

Here, solved it. Politically incorrect? Sure.. Realistic? That’s for sure too

[Dave_n_Tenn]

Originally Posted by Corrie22

...or they just don't learn how to live in Florida.....they want to live in Florida exactly like they lived up north...but without ice and snow

don't develop Florida hobbies and interests....and have no idea what they are

and yet is so obvious.

Sorry we don't have mountains to ski on...but we water ski. In fact we build water ski communities. Here one a few miles from the farm they're building.

https://www.pentalago.com/

[OutdoorLover]

Here's a good "Florida Man" story - a Florida man, driving a stolen Ford Mustang, crashed into a stolen Ford Super Duty pickup truck piloted by a second Florida man. The Mustang hit the pickup so hard that the truck was thrown onto the roof of a nearby house before it rolled off into the yard. The Mustang then caught fire and burned. Just another pleasant Sunday morning in Florida-land (j/k).

https://fordauthority.com/2023/07/st...d-f-250-video/

[Corrie22]

or Florida child > ”suspects in this case were juveniles ”

[OutdoorLover]

A Florida man, Charles Gregory, was rescued by the US Coast Guard. Gregory was 12 miles offshore in a small, swamped jon boat at the time! He also had no PFD, naturally.
Fortunately for him, the boat had foam under the seats, and the seas, while rough enough to swamp the little boat, allowed him to hang on - the target use case for that boat is small-ish lakes, and he's got it in the ocean, and 12 miles offshore . It's not like this is even a borderline case of bad judgement, what an amazing idiot, he has no idea how lucky he is to be alive.

https://www.jacksonville.com/story/n...t/70536310007/

[LKJ1988]

Originally Posted by OutdoorLover

A Florida man, Charles Gregory, was rescued by the US Coast Guard. Gregory was 12 miles offshore in a small, swamped jon boat at the time! He also had no PFD, and fortunately for him, the boat had foam under the seats, and the seas, while rough enough to swamp the little boat, allowed him to hang on - the target use case for that boat is small-ish lakes, and he's got it in the ocean, and 12 miles offshore . It's not like this is even a borderline case of bad judgement, what an amazing idiot, he has no idea how lucky he is to be alive.

https://www.jacksonville.com/story/n...t/70536310007/

I took a 24ft Mako 85 miles offshore to some of my places in May of 1989. It was fine until a land breeze started puffing at mid nite and it got to 10ft. 7 hour ride right in it back home.

[OutdoorLover]

Originally Posted by LKJ1988

I took a 24ft Mako 85 miles offshore to some of my places in May of 1989. It was fine until a land breeze started puffing at mid nite and it got to 10ft. 7 hour ride right in it back home.

Yes, but you and I both know that while there were risks there, a 24-foot Mako is in an entirely different class than a 12-foot jon boat. That's why you weren't found by Coast Guard planes, you made it back on your own.

FWIW, Gregory reported that he saw sharks circling his boat numerous times... and if it were any rougher, he would have been sharing the water with them, instead of lying in his swamped boat.

[LKJ1988]

Originally Posted by OutdoorLover

Yes, but you and I both know that while there were risks there, a 24-foot Mako is in an entirely different class than a 12-foot jon boat. That's why you weren't found by Coast Guard planes, you made it back on your own.

FWIW, Gregory reported that he saw sharks circling his boat numerous times... and if it were any rougher, he would have been sharing the water with them, instead of lying in his swamped boat.

I will never take a boat that small that far again. 10ft seas in that boat is not fun.

[OutdoorLover]

Originally Posted by LKJ1988

I will never take a boat that small that far again. 10ft seas in that boat is not fun.

It's not something I would do - I am sure it was pretty scary and physically difficult too. You're a lonnnng ways out there and you can't go fast to get to safety quickly... you're not really in control of the situation anymore, and you're just dealing with it the best you can and hoping it doesn't get any worse I imagine...

I used to have a 19-footer with a closed transom and thigh-high gunwales, but the water up here is really cold, and if your boating trip becomes a swimming trip, even if you don't drown and the sharks don't get you, you'll die of hypothermia before long. I'd go out to some islands about 8 miles offshore on good days and felt fine with that, but that was it for me. I had no desire to roll the dice with the ocean.

[Corrie22]

Originally Posted by OutdoorLover

A Florida man, Charles Gregory, was rescued by the US Coast Guard.

he looks 20ish.....at noon the wind picked up to 20mph....that's what swamped him

...then the wind out of the west blew him off shore the rest of the day and all night

he wasn't 12 miles out when he capsized