Florida’s governor is desperate to get the state back to work. But the tourism industry is moving much more cautiously
becoming the No. 1 trending topic on Twitter on Saturday. He took the mockery in stride, telling the beachgoers, “For those who try to say you’re morons, I'll take you over those who criticize you every day of the week and twice on Sunday.”
Every day, and sometimes twice a day, the bar puts on a live, online concert by the various bands that would have been playing there had it been open. At the bottom of the screen are links for sending in money. They are doing that to help pay the salaries of the Flora-Bama’s 500 or so employees during the shutdown, Parnell said. Another link offers a way to support the bands, most of them local groups that have nowhere else to play right now, she said.
For longtime Orlando resident Jim Clark, a historian at the University of Central Florida, the sudden silence is reminiscent of the 1970s gas crisis, when the flow of visitors to Disney suddenly dried up. The economy blew apart like a house of cards built next to an oscillating fan. Now, Clark said, “the interstate is eerily quiet.” When Clark took a drive on it last week, he said, “I allotted my usual 30 minutes for the trip and it took only 10.”thanks to wreckers who lured ships onto the rocks so they could loot them. It was an early version of the general Florida business model of attracting visitors with something shiny and then taking their money.
But now the tourists have been banished. The home of “Fantasy Fest” has been turned into a ghost town—if ghost towns had a police checkpoint turning away would-be visitors as if they were looters after a hurricane.no intention of reopening
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