You might be a Floridian if:

[skymama 37]

(I don't usually post these forwarded e-mails, but a lot of us will be able to relate!)

You exhibit a slight twitch when introduced to anyone with the first names
of Charley, Frances or Ivan

If an airboat is parked in your drive instead of a car.

Your freezer never has more than $20 worth of food in it any given time

You're looking at paint swatches for the plywood on your windows, to accent
the house color

You think of your hall closet/safe room as "cozy"

Your pool is more accurately described as "framed in" than "screened in"

Your freezer in the garage now only has homemade ice in it

You no longer worry about relatives visiting during the summer months

You too haven't heard back from the insurance adjuster

You've ordered gas cans via FedEx

You now understand what that little "2% hurricane deductible" phrase really
means

You're putting a collage together on your driveway of roof shingles from
your neighborhood

You were once proud of your 16" electric chain saw

Your Street has more than 3 " NO WAKE" signs posted

You now own 5 large ice chests

Your parrot can now say" hammered, pounded and hunker down"

You recognize people in line at the free ice, gas and plywood locations

You stop what you're doing and clap and wave when you see a convoy of power
company trucks come down your street...and you're depressed when they don't stop

You have the personal cell phone numbers of the managers for: plywood,
roofing supplies and generators at Home Depot on your speed dialer

You've spent more than $20 on "Tall white kitchen bags" to make your own
sand bags

You're considering upgrading from a 16" to a 20" chainsaw

You know what "Bar chain oil" is

You're thinking of getting your wife the hardhat with the ear protector,
face shield for Christmas

You now think the $6000 whole house generator seems reasonable

You look forward to discussions about the merits of "cubed, block and dry
ice"

Your therapist refers to your condition as "generator envy"

You fight the urge to put on your winter coat and wool cap and parade around
in front of your picture window, when you finally get power and your
neighbor across the street, with the noisy generator doesn't get electric

And finally you might be a Floridian if

You ask your sister up north to start saving the Sunday Real Estate
classifieds

She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man,
because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon

[Paige 0]

Ha ha ha ha ha

All so sad and true. I've never seen so many men so excited running around Walmart with chainsaws or generators

Hope all is well at the skymama household. I survived in the Brandywine apts. in DeLand but got to watch a tree split in half in my back yard. It didn't fall on the building so it was pretty damn cool

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[bendywendy 0]

I must be a Floridian. I just got power back last night after hurricane Frances - and water....

it brought tears to my eyes to flush the toilet without bailing the water into the back of the toilet from the dwindling supply in the tub.

[white_falcon 0]

You might be a Floridian if:

You get to JUMP all winter long.

D'OH