You’ll remember that cold spell in January. It caused lots of problems, especially out in eastern Hillsborough County. Farmers used over ten billion gallons of water to save their crops. This led to residents’ wells running dry and some serious sinkhole activity. Nearly 750 people reported dry or damaged wells after the cold snap. And as [...]
The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) says Tampa ranks second to Brooklyn in the number of questionable insurance claims investigated last year. Los Angeles, Orlando and Miami round out the top five. Three of the top five areas are in Florida. National Insurance Crime Bureau spokesman Frank Scafid says Florida is a popular state for fraud [...]
Hillsborough and Polk County farmers used TEN BILLION GALLONS of water to protect their crops during the recent freeze, and in addition to the 85 SINKHOLES caused by using all that water, nearby residents found their wells had run dry. The Southwest Florida Water Management District (Swiftmud) met Tuesday to figure out how to [...]
You may have heard that the Tampa Bay area is in the midst of a (thus far) 3 year drought. The Hillsborough River is low, as is the Alafia (look at the photo). The rainy season doesn’t begin until June. The C.W. Bill Young Reservoir that we built in 2005 – just 3.5 years ago! – [...]
When you head out tomorrow morning, take note of the traffic around you. More than one out of every five drivers you see is driving without insurance. According to the Insurance Research Council, the state of Florida has the fifth most uninsured drivers in the nation. Florida had the fifth highest uninsured driver estimate, 23 percent, according [...]
On the afternoon of Aug. 18, Pinellas officials ordered mandatory evacuation of the county’s most flood-prone areas for 6am the next day. Tropical Storm Fay was heading our way. Over at the TradeWinds Island Resorts in St. Pete Beach, visitors checked out and took off. They say they missed out on over $150,000 in canceled rooms [...]
The heading is true. My family has been in three car accidents, in three separate cars, in 14 days. Not one of them was any of our fault. First, the teenager was driving home at 1:30am in her (my) Mustang. An oncoming car was heading toward her in her lane on a curve! She [...]
