The Florida Man Thread, Caveman Style!

64MercurysRule · May 7, 2026

Wow , 400 mobile homes and homes lost in Alabama & Mississippi . Some with roofs gone & some flattened . Wind & flooding .

Caveman Jim · May 7, 2026

They definitely got the brunt of this storm.

Mikej · May 10, 2026

Caveman Jim said:
They definitely got the brunt of this storm.

I somehow thought that you were in a place that was not so prone to the very worst of this kind of crap? Is that not so? Is your new home solid enough to withstand these kinds of storms? Scary as hell, just sitting there hoping, that you're not in the line of destruction.

I've always wondered why homes in areas prone to tornados aren't built of cinder block or stone.

Caveman Jim · May 10, 2026

Mikej said:
I somehow thought that you were in a place that was not so prone to the very worst of this kind of crap? Is that not so? Is your new home solid enough to withstand these kinds of storms? Scary as hell, just sitting there hoping, that you're not in the line of destruction.

I've always wondered why homes in areas prone to tornados aren't built of cinder block or stone.

Mike, anywhere in Florida is a risk of severe damage but Floridians are not detoured from living in a beautiful place.
There are many brick homes in the south, that's what brings the charm of big beautiful oak trees surrounding brick/stone houses.
My brand new mobile has 32) 5' anchors so if it gets hit by a tornado or hurricane, the frame will still be intact. Well the rest, will be yard art.

MannyGlocks · May 10, 2026

CJ,

I love Florida, especially south Florida.

As a child, I lived on: Marathon Key, then Miami, later Ft. Lauderdale (about 6 different times and addresses....F.L. was my favorite) and finally, Yee Haw junction in the north.

At one point in YJ, my Dad and I lived in a shack, behind a restaurant my Dad worked in. On horseback, the owner roped feral hogs and raised them in a corral behind the restaurant, that he butchered and sold in his restaurant without the public knowing the pork was wild...yes, this was about 1952.

I vividly recall watching the owner getting into the corral to kill a pig to be butchered for the restaurant. A big boar charged him and got him with it's tusks in the guy's wrist all the way up his arm to his elbow. He was a streaming bloody mess, but tough guy that he was, he calmly shot that pig.

The perfumed land of Ft. Lauderdale with it's coconuts/mangoes/guava/papaya/bananas and so much more was an absolute paradise.

Yes, I'm a Texas, but with a varied background of living all over the U.S. as a kid.

Caveman Jim · May 10, 2026

MannyGlocks said:
CJ,

I love Florida, especially south Florida.

As a child, I lived on: Marathon Key, then Miami, later Ft. Lauderdale (about 6 different times and addresses....F.L. was my favorite) and finally, Yee Haw junction in the north.

At one point in YJ, my Dad and I lived in a shack, behind a restaurant my Dad worked in. On horseback, the owner roped feral hogs and raised them in a corral behind the restaurant, that he butchered and sold in his restaurant without the public knowing the pork was wild...yes, this was about 1952.

I vividly recall watching the owner getting into the corral to kill a pig to be butchered for the restaurant. A big boar charged him and got him with it's tusks in the guy's wrist all the way up his arm to his elbow. He was a streaming bloody mess, but tough guy that he was, he calmly shot that pig.

The perfumed land of Ft. Lauderdale with it's coconuts/mangoes/guava/papaya/bananas and so much more was an absolute paradise.

Yes, I'm a Texas, but with a varied background of living all over the U.S. as a kid.

I did have a similar childhood life of a gypsy.
You see, I'm an army brat, born in Germany, raised on Fort Bragg, North Carolina, lived in Mississippi, Georgia, Fort Lauderdale for a year and Ocala for three years.
I agree with you on the ambience of Fort Lauderdale, it was just a cool and beautiful place to live just after I graduated high school and before I went into the army.
My time spent in Ocala/Silver Springs area was just a grind to survive after military life. But then I met a girl that I couldn't live without at the time. During that time I got into a profession that promised big money being on the road telephone contracting. I went from Florida to Texas to Idaho to California to Washington (35+ years)and now I'm back home in Florida to spend the rest of my days.