Why There’s a Massive Runway in the Middle of Florida’s Swamplands



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40 thoughts on “Why There’s a Massive Runway in the Middle of Florida’s Swamplands”

  1. I have friends that use to cut the locks then go racing on the strip the people working would never care and they never got caught since nearest police were so far the response time was basically 20 min

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  2. All of the sonic booms were military, and many were specifically using civilians as guniea pigs in testing the tactical possibilities of sonic booms. So of course the government banned civilian supersonic flight, and while the military politely goes along with it there is no such ban on military sonic booms.

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  3. You must not have ever been there cuz it is definitely not a jungle dude. Learn what you're talking about The Everglades are not a jungle they are a wetland there is a massive difference

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  4. Get your facts straight.
    1) South Florida in the Everglades don't have sinkholes. Central Florida has sinkholes from roughly Cape Coral up to Tampa and then across to maybe the middle of the state. I grew up in South Florida and now live in central florida. I never heard to be sinkhole repair company until I move to tampa. The whole rest of Florida does not have this problem.

    2) your crocodile to human ratio is absolutely false. The only area anywhere near the Everglades it has actual crocodiles is a sanctuary in key largo that I've actually worked on. A construction project was started there in the '60s and abandoned. I worked on a team that restored everything to natural ground. That's where the crocodiles are. Alligators occupy the rest of the Everglades.

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  5. Not to hate on you, but it's almost like someone fed the script into a stock video clip AI and it spit out this edit. I understand that it's hard to do this kind of work, but that's what thought came to my mind while watching this.

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  6. The idea was to develop Miami all the way across the Everglades to Collier county. That’s why there is a system of canals. They were meant to be used in draining the Everglades. In the mid 1900’s the public’s sentiment towards the Everglades changed. It was no longer viewed as worthless swamp land in need of reclamation. That’s when efforts were made to preserve the remaining natural habitat.

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  7. The idea wasn't too bad.

    Speaking of Florida airports; the location of Miami Airport is very unfortunate since they want to build skyskrapers in downtown, which just so happens to be right in the flightpath.

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