rockin'robin

you might be a Floridian....if ur hair is sun-bleached and not dyed

you might be a Floridian....if ur house gets a ton of sand each week

you might be a Floridian...if ur dog has "sand fleas"

Deafness

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Babyblue

You might be a Floridian if you know what a No-see-um is.

Babyblue

You might be a Floridian if you are watching this storm.

Forecasters watching tropical wave near Yucatan


You might be a Floridian if you already have a Hurricane kit ready.. and own a generator

Babyblue

Might be a Floridian if you ever had a Fourth of July fire works displayed canceled. Due to a storm.

Bramus

...if you've learned to hate the FCAT.

Babyblue

I agree.



I just don't like the fact that the schools, and students being punished for it by limiting the funding and failing a student due to a low score.

Frisky Feline

I did google for fcat that i wasn't familiar. now i got it. i learned that florida is the only one who have fcat, not other states. it seems unfair to kids and teachers when they decide not to give more funds if they aren't doing well with the low scores of tests.

Babyblue

Florida Curriculum Assessment Testing.


I am sure you have something similar in your state. Perhaps it is called something different. Not sure.


You might be a Floridian if. Your ice cream melts before you can eat it.

shel90

Other states have assessments..it is all due to NLCB.

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"A child educated only at school is an uneducated child." -George Santayana

Bramus

...if you're first brush with a Bush wasn't George but Jeb.

FireTiger

You might be a FL-ian if you can tell of the one time it did snow (1989) (appox every 100 years in Jacksonville) and shut down the city of bridges.

(Jacksonville has 7 bridges, used to be that the (old) Fuller Warren was low enough to the river to be sanded and plowed, now all of the bridges are too steep.)

Bridges: (in no particular order)

John T. Alsop, Jr / Main Street - Blue, steel tower drawbridge
Napoleon Bonaparte Broward Bridge / Dames Point - cable stayed suspension, harp arrangement with high powered spots on the cables
Fuller Warren Bridge / Fuller Warren Bridge - compressed prestressed concrete (only one with almost no grade before it was rebuilt, originally draw bridge)
St. Elmo W. Acosta / Acosta Bridge - fixed span compressed prestressed concrete, has blue neon lights and a people mover track (the original bridge was orange painted steel)
Hart Bridge / Isaiah David Hart Bridge - cantilever steel bridge - Green with white lighting
John E. Mathews / Mathews Bridge - steel deck cantilever bridge - Red
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FEC Strauss Trunnion Bascule Bridge / The Train Bridge, CSX major hub, the trains cross the St. Johns river here, its black 'always open' counter balanced draw bridge - has two tracks.

rockin'robin

You really know ur bridges here in Jax!....Going to Arlington I use the Matthews.....when I lived at the Beach, I used the Hart, and sometimes the Fuller Warren.....coming into Jax for work.

Reba

I wasn't born in Florida but my daughter was. I lived in Key West and Pensacola. My dad graduated from the University of Florida at Gainesville. Yes, many of those things on the list were true for us.

Some of them are still true for us in South Carolina.

rockin'robin

Ahh, I really love South Carolina....much better than North Carolina! Such a friendly state.

FireTiger

Yeah we had a bridge exhibit at MOSH while I was a teen intern... In fact that's where I met the lady I was trying desperately to terp for.

I wonder if Jax/st aug AD ppl would be interested in hanging out at Friendship Fountain every once and awhile. (when the weather is nicer and I don't feel like a bloated beached whale ... )

-OT- You might be a Native/long time Floridian if you remember when you could set your watch by summer rain, you realize its stating to happen agin now.

Babyblue

The rain IS like clockwork here in the summer time. I'd say anywhere around 4 or 5 pm.

Oceanbreeze

That's not quite true for here, but it does rain daily. Then, it clears away and we're good to go for the rest of the day unless we gave a tropical storm or something blow our way. If that happens, it rains all. day. long.

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FireTiger

No, it used to be exactly at 4:15 pm... back about 15 years ago or so... it rain for 30-45 minutes drp the temp by 20 or so degrees and clear up.

Oceanbreeze

Not where I am.

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web730

Yup, it does at most times like that but not always though.

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sampaguita

Oh my gosh, I have been laughing so hard after reading this! Most of these are so true.

You know you are a Floridian when the minimum speeds of the highway are 75 mph and above... or maybe that is just Jacksonville? Haha.

... when there are only two football teams the Gators and the Noles.

... when you make sand angels instead of snow ones.

... you have tan lines on your feet from the flip flops.

... when you didn't know any other grocery stores besides Winn-Dixie and Publix. (That was so weird when I went to NYC!)

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Grummer

you're a Floridian if you look like this;

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Brian

You might be be Floridan if you hate Georgia Bulldogs and Tennessee Vols football teams.

Brian

Both Winn-Dixie and Publix are regional grocery chains, mainly in the southeastern part of the United States. I miss shopping at Winn-Dixie/SaveRite for their lower priced deals. Don't care too much for Publix though.