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You've heard the news.
Here's what to make of it.
My name is Jeff Vandermeer and I'm a novelist who's lived in Florida for over 30 years.
Florida figures prominently in my books.
You could say that they couldn't exist without it to some degree.
My relationship with the state, I would say, is very intimate with regard to its wild places and very complicated in general, given many of the contradictions that occur in Florida.
Hurricane Milton exploding into a once in a lifetime storm less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene hit the state.
Florida has been hit with two hurricanes in the last month.
And the frequency and the strength and the swiftness of them has kind of made a lot of things more difficult here than even normal during hurricane season.
A glimpse into the real cost of.
Hurricane Milton along the Gulf Coast.
Yeah, this price tag so far, well over $100 billion in damage.
You know, many people are still worried.
About the fact that Helene reached so far inland and had such devastating effects.