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To: tejek who wrote (197729)8/15/2004 9:40:59 AM
From: combjelly  Respond to of 1573548
 
"I wasn't making a recommendation nor do I think the Key Westers were being smart."

Conchs. Residents of Key West call themselves conchs.

I didn't say you were. Every time there is a hurricane going in somewhere, there are people who throw a hurricane party where the eye is supposed to hit. if they are lucky, they just need to throw their underwear away. That is usually the part they leave out of the stories they tell afterwards.

And then there are those that go out and trim limbs when the eye is over their area. Then they get to experience the power of the storm, while up in a tree...

There is something about a hurricane that drives people to delete themselves from the gene pool. True, they are usually from the shallow end of the gene pool, but...