Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 10:38:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Oliver T Massey CFS <massey@hal.fmhi.usf.edu> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg3644$foo@default> Subject: re: "Do not go to Florida"
About every two or three years an
> "Encephalitis outbreak" occurs of a few cases, and these are usually
> very localized. Yeah, this sounds scary, but somewhere around the same
> number of people who die from Encephalitis each year also die in Florida
> from lightning strikes or shark attacks.
Actually, far more die of lighting strikes. There have been about half a dozen
deaths from lighting _in Tampa_ this year alone. Most recently, a family party
was hit near the bay. As I recall two were killed and three or four
hospitalized from one strike. My house has been hit three times in the five or
so years I have lived in it. Toll so far, one TV twice, one modem, two phone
answering machines, and one cordless phone. -- Oh yeah, my hair sticks out
straight too.
Moral of the story: if you come to Florida wear bug repellant - and a lightning
rod.
Tom in Fl
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