By The Numbers - part the nineteenth

So, as you've likely read somewhere, Governor DeMented is demanding, Demanding I Say, that Sleepy Joe pay 100% of the bill for cleaning up the mess in his God forsaken state. Didn't have the same demand when Sandy devastated New York and environs. I recall, with some level of accuracy, a line from Hiaasen's "Stormy Weather" (can't find my copy, and the innterTubes various quote sites are lacking)

Those fucking flying aluminum ducks.

So, just how many mobile homes are in Fl.? Not the most, it turns out.
- 1 Texas 137,460
- 2 Florida 50,761

It would seem that Florida isn't so bad. But, wait, there's more!

Texas is so much larger than Florida, what's the measure on a density basis?
- Texas 268,596 sq. miles
- Florida 65,758 sq. miles

Therefore, we get
- Texas .51 per sq. mile
- Florida .77 per sq. mile

That's a might more. Let's see if we can find out whether those tin cans are concentrated lower on the pennisula where Ian and Andrew and most of their brethren call. From a few years ago, the #1 place to have a mobile home is Florida's Lakeland-Winter Haven metro area. Yes, the conveniently offered map shows that this area was right next to the the bull's eye for Ian. Until a day or two before Ian hit, it was the bull's eye.

I carry the legend that these are just flying aluminum ducks. Let's find out whether mobile homes can survive hurricanes. The videos from Fort Meyers, south of Winter Haven, showed a landscape that looked like it had been leveled by a bulldozer in places and nearly completely under water in others. Still not safe.