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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, the place is a swamp. Barely habitable even without the hurricanes.[/quote]

Further evidence:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/13/health/florida-nursing-home-deaths/index.html

"At least 5 dead in Florida nursing home left with no A/C after Irma"

We are talking about a place where you die if the electricity is cut off. That is somewhere with a bad climate, not somewhere with a good climate![/quote]

So, that means that you are also ruling out any colder areas.  If you live in New York, Boston, Minneapolis-St Paul, Chicago, Montreal, Toronto, and many other cities, if you lose power in the winter, you'll freeze to death.  Actually, those places are more dangerous.  Winter freezing happens every year for weeks at a time.  Hurricanes only hit Florida a few days out of each year and most of them do not stop power.   I would guess that Florida loses power less often than most of the northern cities.  Certainly it seems like our friends here in Pepco land lose power a LOT more than our family and friends in Florida do.  Additionally most houses in Florida are well designed for ventilation.  Nursing homes have a lot of interior rooms and limited air flow without power.  Houses will do better.  There were no heat related deaths in homes.[/quote]

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