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From: William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Books Featuring Frigid, Icy Worlds
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2024 16:30:02 -0400
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WolfFan wrote:
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> 
> that’s Dade. Dade County changed its name to Miami-Dade County. (Everyone
> still calls it Dade; when Dwayne Wade and the Miami Heat were riding high,
> there was a big sign on I-95 welcoming you to Wade County. Embarassed the
> hell out of Wade.) Which meant that every single official vehicle had to be
> repainted in the new colors with the new logo. Guess who had a friend in the
> auto painting business... Every single official county form had to be redone.
> Guess who had a friend in the printing business... And yes, he got to be a
> guest of the Feds.

Many people from Ontario spend winter or part of winter in Florida.  So 
there's plenty of opportunity for cross-contamination.
>>
>>
>> The media have not reported on any incompetence as a cause for the
>> explosion of downtown Wheatley a couple of years ago. I wonder, though.
>> It's not like small towns in Ontario blow up all that often.
> 
> The closest we had to that was an apartment building blow up. There were code
> violations all over, for years, but it was in Dade. Money talks. Until the
> thing broke, killing dozens.
> https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57690165

Those towers were built by a Canadian developer from Quebec, hence the 
name.  To what degree, if any, he was responsible for later poor 
maintenance I do not know.


William Hyde