Essay Two in a series of Essays to Celebrate the 100th Birthday of American’s greatest living modern President! In the early morning hours of August 2015, volunteers of the Jimmy Carter National Historic site began placing signs throughout the historic district which read “Jimmy Carter for Cancer Survivor.” Just the day before the former President […]
20 million people led by elected officials in the pockets of special interests and being stuffed into a peninsula vulnerable to tropical systems and with a fragile ecosystem based around the Everglades, Springs, aquifers and the St Johns River has created the elements for Florida’s collapse. This wouldn’t be the first time such a thing […]
One in a series of Essays to Celebrate the 100th Birthday of American’s greatest living modern President Jimmy Carter is not a failed president! Let’s just get that out of the way right now. But, he is also the most accomplished former President in American History. It’s also worth noting that at 100 years old, […]
Last week on the Florida History Podcast we discussed Spessard Holland, a legendary Florida political and legal figure who served as both Governor and a US Senator. You can listen to the Florida History Podcast on Anchor (which hosts our show), Spotify, Google, Apple Podcasts, Radio Public, Breaker, Overcast, Castro or Pocket Casts. Overcast, Castro, Spotify, Radio Public and Breaker have App Store apps for free […]
Helene was a gulf storm that normally would not have even raised winds to 25 MPH on the east coast. But the monster wind field delivered some incredibly high wind gusts hundreds of miles from the storm’s center and lashed the east coast of the state with sustained tropical storm winds for 12 hours. Here […]
Hello everyone! Voting Trend will be working with St. Pete Polls to conduct a poll of Florida’s 13th Congressional District, a race that could possibly determine the tilt of Congress. We are currently providing a GoFundMe for the poll. Those who contribute will be acknowledged in the release of the poll, and will be given a […]
For years those of us in Florida have been told that “Storm Surge is the biggest killer” in Tropical systems. Helene proved a once-in-a-lifetime event for this. We’ve had lots of once-in-a-lifetime events in Florida recently. So without getting too preachy, why exactly would all this happen within a two year period? Climate Change and […]
Emergency Podcast to discuss Helene which brought major wind and storm surge impacts from Miami to Apalachicola and all points in-between. While Florida’s capital city was spared what was feared the Tampa Bay area, long on the “clean” side of Gulf hurricanes has experienced an event potentially unrivaled in the modern history of Florida Hurricanes. […]
I have been watching and tracking Hurricanes since the 1980’s. We constantly hear about “the big one” or the “Storm of the Century” etc for those of us here in Florida. First it was Andrew, then Charley, then Wilma, then Irma, Michael and Ian. While Andrew and Michael were stronger storms in terms of winds, […]
The NHC has indicated Helene had reached Category 4 strength with maximum winds around 120 MPH as of 2:25 Eastern. The storm has blanketed the state with heavy winds, incredibly putting ALL of the peninsula into TS force winds as of 2pm. In addition to the heavy winds, Tornadic activity has blanketed the state from […]
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