Florida’s best defense against natural disasters is nature

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By Amelia UrrySep 15, 2017, 3:19 pm169 pts
The highest point in all of Florida is a hill that tops out at 345 feet above sea level, just south of the Alabama border. Much of the rest of the state lies far, far below that — like, 340 feet below — a peninsula jutting into the Caribbean around the same height as the Caribbean. It’s the last place…

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