The bugs, lots of bugs, the snakes more different types than any other state; and of course the water...  FLA is surrounded on three sides by the ocean; that is salt water...  Since I worked for several years with the US Dept of Interior Water Resources Division; Sub District office out of Tampa...  I might just have learned a few things that most people living in the Sunshine State are not familiar with as far as the fresh water goes...  I lived there over twenty years...

First The people coming down do not like the storms and hurricians...  Neither do I but they are part of what makes up FLA...  With out the over fifty inches of rain fall a year;  FLA would be more of a dust bowl or desert like Baja California... It is the constant precipitation that makes FLA the semi Tropical place it is...   So if you like the lush foliage and plants; just get over bitching about the wet stuff; folks...

Next the fresh water floats over the salt water now mainly near the middle of the state...  If you could slice the state in half about mid way up the peninsula, just above Tampa and below Orlando over toward Cocoa Beach, and then be able to insert a large enough vision glass...  You would see the fresh water table sitting on the salt water; as an envelope...   

There about Lakeland you would see the fresh water table of the Floridian Aquifer water level at some where around a minus (-) 150 feet MSL...   MSL means  Mean Sea Level; an arbitrary datum used to refer to the level of the sea world wide...

BTW: Sea level is not sea level every where... Or should we say for an example the sea level at Ceder Key on the Gulf Coast; is about seven inches difference from across FLA at Dayton Beach... HUH!!

Next you would need to know that there are three main groups vying for the water in FLA...   People, agriculture and industry ( Mainly Phosphate Mines)...  If you live near the Gulf coast near Olesmar ( on upper Tampa Bay); don't try to water your yard using sand point wells; during high tide as you will only kill the grass with salt water...   This is know along the coast as salt water intrusion...  Mainly because more and more fresh water is being pumped from the envelope...  There is only so much fresh water folks... DUH!!  

BTW: Most of the available water in the world is 98% salt or brackish, meaning it can not be drank in any quanity...  So 2 % is all we have got to use...

So be happy that there are Hurricanes and tropical storms; add to the overall scheme to keep things green in FLA...  The rain is the key part to keeping FLA green and lush...   Do you still want to move to FLA??  

BTW: We did not talk about the sink holes, sand spurs, bagger lice, or the ticks, gnats, gators and fleas...   Or get to the beach stuff...  Oh well that is another blog...

  See Ya... Kermit

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