I remember much of this--they went so fucking overboard with flood control that most of the rain water just went out to the ocean and large areas dried up
Miami needs the water now.
The limestone that supports the topsoil is crushing from decades of being dry. The Biscayne aquifer is experiencing salt water intrusion.
Everybody who lives around Tampa has had to get sinkhole insurance since I moved away 30 years ago
Wlobal Garming strikes agin!!!1111
That's what the grifters say.
In the state forest south of our area the average panther is dark, roughly ten feet in lenght, weighing nearly five hundred pounds and standing hip high to me.
South of US-41 the panthers are blonder, smaller and one hundred fifty pounds lighter.
The difference is by us the prey on abundant deer, hog, smaller livestock and stray dogs.
Down south they eat terrapins and armadillos. They compete with the thousands of exotic snakes for coyote and raccoons.
The raccoon population has crashed in the southern glades.
Was doing some google earfing of Florida... came across what looks like an aborted attempt to build a proto-Villages in the swamplands... like as if they built the roads for an entire town/city, and abandoned it. Possibly the origin of the scam about selling swamp land at discount prices... Location: Picayune Strand State Forest. Dolt - there a story there ?
There is.
Look up the very busy Mackle Brothers and The Deltona Corporation.
Look up an area called The Squares off of US-41 east of Fl-997
Not the squares they didn't.
fixing the glades is like fixing a landfill.
Once again Geeg is correct.
California is the place you ought to beeeee.
At 9:30 they talk about the Southern Golden Gate estates. No other community is mentioned.
Not the same one?
No
I didn't watch the video, I got all interested in the Panthers. Those aborted grid roads really caught my eye.
Now the Florida Panthers hockey team name makes sense.
Scam Villages is hilarious. I hope a bunch of NY Yankee types got gypped.
There is.
Look up the very busy Mackle Brothers and The Deltona Corporation.
Look up an area called The Squares off of US-41 east of Fl-997
Oh this is turning into quite the rabbit hole...
So the Mackle Brothers did a lot of deals at the Hileah Racetrack.... Here's a different deal of theirs that went south:
"Work began on developing Marco Island in 1969.[4] The project at Marco Island was their most ambitious project undertaken.[3] It did not go well and during the mid 1970s, the Deltona Corporation was denied permits for dredge and fill for waterfront development. The corporation was ordered to refund $38 million to customers who had paid for waterfront property but did not get it due to these permits being denied.[4] During a 1981–1982 recession, the company held 1,200 condominiums that could not be sold and "was on the verge of financial collapse" when "a huge Minnesota utility"—the Topeka Group, a subsidiary of Minnesota Power & Light—agreed to buy out the company and take over. Following the takeover, Frank E. Mackle Jr. and Frank Mackle III left Deltona in 1986, ending the family's involvement in the company."
