To: tejek who wrote (337623 ) 5/15/2007 6:50:35 PM From: Road Walker Read Replies (1) | Respond to re: Interesting.....I imagine the wildfires aren't helping matters. It had to happen. FLA, like CA and some other states, has a fairly fragile ecology. The load all these people were putting on that ecology must have been significant. Last nite, AU was on the news........apparently, they are in a ten year drought. There are communities where they only have 10 months worth of water left in their reservoir and then their water will have to be shipped in by truck. Sydney is under mandatory water conservation and has managed to drop usage back to the levels of 1974 when the metro area had 1+ million people less. We are now well over 4% unoccupied, with high carrying costs (insurance/taxes). So I expect prices to get worse.
