As a lifelong New Yorker, who lately moved to the Sunshine State, Steve Cuozzo’s piece on how a lot he hates Florida wasn’t offensive. It was hilarious.
“You’ll be again in 5 years,” Steve taunts. Steve quotes the identical finance bro, Jason Mudrick, who will get talked about in each anti-Florida piece. Mudrick lives in New York and, like Steve, might be watching his pals make a wise transfer for greener, um, sandier pastures. Don’t be jealous, guys.
What are Steve’s issues with the sunshine state? Development would possibly find yourself blocking your view! As a result of that by no means occurs in New York. Local weather change will destroy the entire place! In keeping with Miami Mayor Francis X. Suarez, “New York has truly suffered extra hurricane harm than Miami within the final 10 years.” Whoops. Flood insurance coverage prices an excessive amount of! Florida has no state revenue tax. We’ll discover a technique to pay these insurance coverage costs.
After which Steve is apprehensive about gators. Gators! You suppose a former New Yorker will care about gators? Each few years the NYPD finds some dude holed up with a lion or one thing within the metropolis. Have you ever forgotten Antoinne Yates, discovered to be residing with a tiger, a bear cub and sure, a gator, in Harlem? I’ve seen rats the dimensions of gators within the NYC subway. For those who’ve reached “however gators,” to criticize Florida you’ve run out of ammo.
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Steve has lengthy been one among my favourite meals writers and I get pleasure from following him on Instagram the place he’s . . . incessantly vacationing in Florida.
New York has endured extra hurricane harm than Florida has.Common Photos Group through Getty
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There’s Steve on the Version in Miami. There he’s on the Colony on Palm Seashore. He manages to maintain his worry of gators very well-hidden. His captions don’t give away that he’s apprehensive concerning the ocean washing him away. “After 3 months in deep freeze, happiness is the Version Miami Seashore swimming pools.” “Lacking the Palm Seashore Colony Lodge, aka the Pink Paradise, after simply 4 days residence.”
What truly bugs Steve is that New York is in massive bother and many people have reached the top of the highway in combating for it to enhance whereas residing there. Politics matter. Steve’s governor performs footsie with the far-left that each Democrat fears proper now, whereas my governor is setting the trail for the remainder of his get together. However have you ever in contrast our flood insurance coverage prices?
I was a New York supremacist, like Steve. Nowhere else was adequate. However then the pandemic hit and New York had a few of the worst dealing with of it in all the world. Worse, New Yorkers thought they had been doing properly! They closed colleges longer than virtually anyplace. They put children useless final in all reopening plans. They proceed to masks toddlers even immediately. Toddlers! In June 2022! This isn’t the mark of a wholesome metropolis.
Because the pandemic, crime has elevated in New York Metropolis.Christopher Sadowski
In October, Steve posted an image of Radio Metropolis Music Corridor, the tradition which Steve says Florida is missing in his piece, and captioned it “Modest prediction: the most important vacation season in NYC historical past coming proper up.” How did that prediction prove? Omicron hit and New York did what New York now does, closed up tight and pretended that might assist cease the unfold. It didn’t. The Rockettes’ ‘Christmas Spectacular’ was canceled. The ridiculous vaccine passport locked so many New Yorkers out of this “tradition” that Steve is so pleased with, together with 40% of Black New Yorkers and 60% of youngsters 17 and beneath. Even immediately, so many artwork venues in New York require masking. Preserve your tradition, I haven’t seen my masks in months.
It’s not simply COVID. Crime has spiraled uncontrolled. I do know lifelong New Yorkers who don’t take the subway anymore. Now that colleges are lastly open, the youngsters are again to getting a full-on leftist indoctrination. Us new Floridians noticed a saner path and we took it.
Anyway, Steve, if you wish to criticize Florida, from an angle you truly cowl, I’ll admit that my new state isn’t robust in Asian cuisines. We lack for flavorful hen and broccoli at our door earlier than we even dangle up the telephone. There’s nowhere to get soup dumplings. And in case you may put in a phrase for Xi’an Well-known Meals to open a south Florida location, these of us eager for their cumin lamb noodles would certain recognize that.
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NYC you later, Steve
Look, I get it. I don’t need New York to suck both. It’s my hometown and I’ll all the time adore it.
However hating on Florida received’t convey again the town. New York must snap out of it. However even when the town all of a sudden reverts to kind, most new Floridians received’t return. Perhaps a number of single finance guys who didn’t get authorised for a membership at ZZ’s will probably be again with a story of Florida woe.
However shifting isn’t a straightforward resolution. Shifting with a household isn’t one thing any of us Florida-migrants took flippantly.
We root for New York to get well however we received’t be again. We’ve discovered paradise and we’re staying. We’ll see you on the Colony, Steve.
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At least one person was killed and six others injured when a boat exploded in a marina in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Three people suffered traumatic injuries. Cristian Benavides reports.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – A boat explosion at a South Florida marina has left one person dead and five others injured, officials said.
The explosion occurred Monday night at the Lauderdale Marina, Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue said in a social media post.
Rescue workers transported five people to local hospitals, three with traumatic injuries, officials said. A sixth person was found dead in the water several hours later by the Broward Sheriff’s Office.
Fire rescue officials said they didn’t immediately know what caused the explosion.
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For as long as humans have endeavored to build upwards toward the sky, they have also been forced to contend with inexorable laws of nature — ones that are not always so accommodating to our species’ vertical endeavors. In the modern era, that tension is perhaps best exemplified in Florida, where coastal erosion, sinkholes, and other environmental factors have become a constant challenge in the march toward upward construction.
Nearly three dozen structures along Florida’s southern coast sank an “unexpected” amount between 2016 and 2023, according to a report released this month by researchers at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science. All told, “35 buildings along the Miami Beach to Sunny Isles Beach coastline are experiencing subsidence, a process where the ground sinks or settles,” the school said in a press release announcing the results of its research. Although it’s generally understood that buildings can experience subsidence “up to several tens of centimeters during and immediately after construction,” this latest study shows that the process can “persist for many years.” What do these new findings mean for Miami-area residents, and our understanding of how to build bigger, safer buildings in general?
‘Not so much about the safety of the occupants’
Layers of limestone and sand “shift under the weight of high-rises and as a result of vibrations from foundation construction,” said The Associated Press, with “tidal flows and construction projects as far away as 1,050 feet” contributing to the observed settling. The territory surveyed for the project also “included Surfside, where the Champlain Towers South building collapsed in June 2021, killing 98 people” although that collapse is widely believed to have been the result of design flaws and material failures. Nevertheless, the study’s authors concluded the 2021 disaster “highlighted the need for monitoring of building stability, especially in coastal areas with corrosive environmental conditions.”
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The study is “not so much about the safety of the occupants” of the affected buildings, co-author Esber Andiroglu said to NBC Miami. Instead, the research is meant to highlight the “preservation of resources and containing costly repairs to more manageable maintenance expenses.” Still, the fact that many of the buildings surveyed were completed years before the satellite imagery used for the study was first deployed has raised questions. “All the settlement that was going to occur should have occurred by that time. So they should not have additional settlements,” John Pistorino, a member of the state engineering board, said to the Miami Herald, which highlighted different potential explanations including building weight, climate change, and the location of the structures vis-a-vis underground wells.
‘To be 100% clear, no buildings in Sunny Isles Beach are sinking!’
For now, elected officials and experts are urging patience and caution in the wake of the report’s findings. “Subsidence happens slowly; these buildings are not just going to tip over tomorrow,” said the Miami New Times. However, “left unchecked, uneven sinking can cause cracks, misaligned doors, and other structural problems.”
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“To be 100% clear, no buildings in Sunny Isles Beach are sinking!” Sunny Isles Beach Mayor Larisa Svechin said to Newsweek. “All occupied buildings in our city are inspected and receive certificates of occupancy in compliance with the Florida Building Code; consistently rated the safest in the country.”
Even the study’s authors are working to tamp down any panic their research may have caused. “We didn’t want to alarm anybody,” study co-author Professor Gregor Eberli said to NBC Miami. “We just wanted to put out the fact that yes, there is a bit of subsidence going on and we wanted to quantify that.” Still, this latest report comes shortly after a separate study this year found structures along the East Coast were “sinking more than the rate of seawater rise,” said the AP.
As Farzaneh Aziz Zanjani, lead author for the University of Miami’s research said: “The study underscores the need for ongoing monitoring and a deeper understanding of the long-term implications for these structures.”
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