Just for Gardenlady, a piece of Florida trivia with which she can dazzle her new neighbors:
Ever wonder why the capital of Florida is in the middle of nowhere, less than half-an-hour from the Georgia border?
Well, when Florida became a U.S. territory in 1821, the only two cities of any size were St. Augustine and Pensacola. (Almost everything south of that was Everglades and in the hands of the Seminoles.)
So they chose a place roughly midway between the two cities and founded a town to be the capital. (For a few years, the legislature alternated between Pensacola and St. Augustine.)
So interesting thank you Nova!
I am going to have to brush up on my Florida history. I have always wanted to learn more about at Augustine and the Spanish presence there, I guess it is time to do that!!
It's funny you mentioned the hurricanes and evacuating - of my four kids, my ten year old is the only one not really wanting to move, and part of it is that he is afraid of hurricanes. So after reassuring him that unlike tornadoes, earthquakes, hurricanes usually give you time to evacuate and be safe, etc, we went searching for information together about hurricanes and the satellite beach area. To our pleasant surprise we learned that the area does not get hit often! Which made both of us happy!
But of course we will always pay attention anyway. If nothing else I remember being a 5 year old in our Blizzard of 78 (and more recently the Halloween blizzard in 2011) and the destruction, damage, power outages, etc. I like my comforts, so I get out of dodge ASAP if anything remotely dangerous approaches!
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