There is supposed to be sort of a mini rainy season in spring, and this year it has basically not happened at all. I'm supposed to be out collecting shrimp right now, but there isn't anything to collect. There are about three weeks left before the summer species will start coming out.
"But many Floridians — particularly those who have moved here since 1998 and have no prior experience with wildfires on a massive scale — don’t see these signs and don’t comprehend the omens. They arrived ready to worry about hurricanes, but might not think of fire in the same hazardous terms."
orlandosentinel.com
Editorial: Florida’s fire risk keeps climbing. Don’t ignore it
Florida is in the grip of a record drought. Floridians can see it in the withered tones of roadside vegetation and hear it in the dry crunch of their once-green lawns. But those who have been aroun…