florida girl, better adjust your blouse, for your mile wide chip has been showing since you joined this board. Have you, as a lifelong floridian forgotten that the entire nation comes here to vacation, and most of it's retirees move here? Just because it happened in the panhandle a lot later that it did down south, doesn't mean all of us were unaware it was happening. The people that vacation and move here have been supporting us since flagler built his railroad. Yes, the old timers were quite innovative, they had to be. And yes, they made quite a few mistakes due to trial and error, a perfect example is what the corps of engineers did to the everglades. what they thought was right, has turned out to be a terrible wrong. Maybe what you were calling low lands were actually wetlands all along. as you have stated, we need to grow and add to what we know. I for one believe that filling in a wetland is going against what we (now) know. I love reading about the history you provide us with up here, same as I loved hearing my gtandparent's history of Boca Raton, and Broward and Palm Beach Counties, but please temper the "I'm right, you're wrong because I grew up here" attitude.
Does it surprise you that someone actually disagrees with you? You folks have been handing it out for years, and now you're surprised at a response? So you can dish it out, but can?t take it? By the way, this ain't the Everglades! I haven't seen absolute proof yet to change my mind, so you're right and I'm wrong because you didn't grow up here? What's the difference? Why are you so surprised?