>>>One thing (and there are many) I remember about Orlando is the lightning storms during the summer! Wow! We would stop the car, pull off the road and just watch. At about 9 PM one evening we actually saw lightning in the form of a cross! That was a special event to me. It began at the center and formed a cross as if it was a four-pointed rocket. Unreal!
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>>>Doing some research I read (from several sources not on the Internet) that Orlando, Florida has the greatest number of lightning hits in the world.
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>>>By the way one day the humidity got down to 99% and the television newsperson was so upset! "It is too dry"! Wow!
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>>>Stand still in Orlando for a few minutes and you will be covered with a light green mold.
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>>>Stand still for an hour and you will be covered with Spanish Moss.
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>>>Stand still for two hours and you are a tourist attraction! :)
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>>Tom,
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>>< g >About the only thing I enjoy in Orlando is that there are Uno's Pizzerias there. The original Uno's is in the near north side of Chicago. Originally, they had only two locations, both in Chicago (the other named, appropriately, Due's).
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>>They're now a chain. Just your typical chain decor, and the pizza isn't as good as the original's but it's close. The decor of the original, BTW, could be described as "early dungeon".:-)
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>>I know what you mean about the thuderstorms. Day starts off sunny, you go over to someplace like Daytona or Ormand Beach and then, between 3 and 4 in the afternoon, here come the thunderstorms.
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>>Orlando's also one of the few places where, when you walk out of an air conditioned store, your glasses fog up.
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>George;
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>My wife and I were in Los Angeles a few days ago. We were talking to a lady who was waiting to leave the hotel and it turned out she was from San Jose. Somehow we got to the topic of Orlando. She said, "You can set your watch by the thunderstorms. You know it is either 1PM or 4PM"! AMEN!
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>1960 in Orlando during one day, 14 inches of rain fell in two hours between 1PM and 3PM. At 4PM we got off work and headed for the chow hall, about two miles away. The road was elevated from the surrounding fields, and the water had receded just enough to allow us to see the black top.
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>You know how the military is about doing things - punctual, continuous, and with no consideration for reality. As we drove down the road we noticed that the oscillating water sprinkler heads were shooting out water, to water the lawn. As the heads became more exposed above the flooded fields the stream of water shot out the usual 40 feet or so. Soon all the heads were exposed and watering the vast fields of grass. Such a sight! Streams of flying water helping to fill the already flooded fields! Yes sir, your military in action! Did we laugh!!!

Sounds like the military alright.

>Reenlist and enjoy the benefits. :)
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Since I declined an invitation to an all-expenses paid trip to SouthEast Asia back in the late 1960's, I can't re-enlist.:-)