Did Cutting The Mangroves Impact Flooding?

With reference to the flooding now going on in KW, Assistant City Manager John Jones is right: "There is nothing [they] can do about it." Now, that is. The City should have thought about this possibility before it cut the mangroves near the flooded area without a permit.

What city officials didn't mention in their attempt to explain that it wasn't the cutting of the mangroves that caused the flooding is that there is silt now filling up the culverts and that the water has no where to go. Of course, it wasn't the cutting of the mangroves that promoted that. Yeah, right.

Wind Speed At Sand Key

NOAA has stopped putting out the inaccurate wind speeds at Sand Key until the wind speed reading equipment is fixed. The complaints that the readings were inaccurate have continually come from boat captains for almost a year. We wonder when NOAA will get the money to make the data-gathering accurate. Soon we hope. Is before hurricane season too much to ask? On second thought . . . yeah.