Blog Credited as Hurricane Repellant
One reader made the astute observation that since we started this blog, there has been absolutely not even a hint of any tropical storm activity* As a matter of fact we have been in a mini-drought with no rain for the past three weeks, until yesterday. So far, so good, but [...]
Clarity
Donna Weise was the Chief of Pathology, one of the youngest in the country, a magna cum laude graduate of St. Louis University and the Medical School at University of Missouri, a Phi Beta Kappa. That is quite the curriculum vitae and I wondered how much brainpower, perseverance and money it had taken to [...]
There was a tragic storm in the Florida Keys in 1935 that caused enormous loss of life and total destruction of much of Monroe County. I highly recommend a fascinating book on the subject called Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean by [...]
The Keys
There is only one road in and out of the Florida Keys, a fundamental fact of life about living in Paradise. We have four hospitals in Miami-Dade County and one in Monroe County aka “the Keys”. While we have gotten very good at coordinating our efforts during potential disasters, the location of Mariners Hospital [...]
