Out of Florida we're barely a blip on the news

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From two days ago, FYI, Palm Beach columnist

Here's some sobering news, South Florida.

As much as you're hurting, as tired as you are of your broken landscape and the loss of half your power grid -- too bad. The rest of the country doesn't much care.

I know this because I got away for the weekend. My family flew to North Carolina for a nephew's bar mitzvah.

I spent most of three days in a place where the trees were turning red and orange -- and still standing. Where the traffic lights worked. Where the street signs were rightside-up.

My wife and son and I checked into a hotel and had our first hot showers in five days.

We picked up the telephone and heard a dial tone. We dialed, and damned if somebody didn't answer! On the first try!

We could go to a mall, an actual working mall, and buy a new pair of jeans because who knew when we'd be able to wash the laundry back home?

We had re-entered the world of the normal.

Of course we turned on the TV, first thing.

Hard to believe, but the news anchors were not sitting in front of aerial pictures of torn-to-pieces mobile homes. They were not cutting away to news conferences with disaster-relief officials.

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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/columnists/sfl-phoward01nov01,0,2363062.column?coll=sfla-news-col

Lots of blues down here. Wasserman-Schultz said she felt more concerned AFTER a meeting with Federal officials yesterday.
Lots of newly homeless, lots of desperation. Just FYI, DU'ers.
No coverage.