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Arjun Basu's avatar

Everything here is absolutely true and correct. The problem is there and we refuse to address it because it makes people feel icky.

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Jesse Meadows's avatar

“How long are we willing to fight against the sea before we give up?”

This is the question I’ve been asking for a while now too. I grew up in fort myers and my fam still lives there, I also briefly worked as a reporter at the fort myers beach newspaper a few years ago. after Ian my mom and I drove out to the island and in the middle of a completely flattened town square, residents (most of whom are snowbirds from the Midwest) were having a rally talking about how they were determined to rebuild their homes in “paradise”. The level of denial fascinates me.

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