Florida’s siren call has duped us all for generations, each new arrival more arrogant than the last.
. The kid is home from school. Everything is harder. Stow away the patio furniture. Stow away your weekend plans.
The pines in the back look taller, shakier, a touch malevolent. We'll cut them down in time for next season. Promise. Next season. Ugh. There is always a next season, isn't there?Florida's peak hurricane season coincides with the time of year our , a cruel joke that turns space and time against us — it's not just a hurricane's path that matters but also its time of arrival. Pray for low tide."It will politically be exceptionally difficult to make the changes necessary to fix this mess ...," state Sen. Jeff Brandes, a Republican,It turns out governing involves a lot more than performing, but Florida elected a performer in chief.
One time of year this becomes a problem, and then that one time of year passes and we forget. Until the next year. The insurance market continues to crumble. The algal blooms grow. The same neighborhoods flood. The problems are complicated, and so the problems stay.The hurricanes remind us what we are: temporary, imperfect, vulnerable. And they remind us who we are: human beings.Nate Monroe is a metro columnist whose work regularly appears every Thursday and Sunday.
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