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Saving the Best for Last?

As hurricane season has been particularly active and destructive this year, it’s hard to imagine how things could get any worse. But alas, Wilma has already broken the seventy year old record for intensity in the Atlantic basin. Floridians previously breathing sighs of relief that their state had been spared a major hurricane landfall after surviving four of them in 2004 now find themselves boarding up and heading out.

It’s revealing to see that in Florida the real anguish over Wilma is that her arrival cuts into the start of the tourist season which is usually ramping up as temperatures drop in the rest of the country. After all, the state has seen numerous storms within the past decade and escaped from most with only moderate property damage. No one is talking much about Lake Okeechobee.

The likelihood that the dam surrounding the lake burst and floods all of South Florida is pretty small, but it could inundate much of the Everglades to the south which is used to grow sugarcane and vegetables. Not a big deal, unless you like that slice of tomato or lettuce on your hamburger.

But can it be that in a year of peerless natural disasters, the only victim of Wilma’s wrath could be Mickey Mouse? Or is the hurricane season saving its best for last?

posted by Thomas at 1:19 AM 0 comments