This article describes the situation happening in Florida that is causing a sort of panic caused by frigid temps. Not one person was on the beach this last Sunday, and restaurants with tables outside were scrambling to put up heat lamps so their customers would stay warm. The temperatures in Miami barely got into the 40s on Sunday when normally, they are in the mid to upper 70s! This may not sound like much compared to our sub zero temps, but when the citrus harvest is at its peak, these temps could be major trouble. When the number is as big as this $9.3 billion, this could be bad for jobs if fruit on the ground cannot be harvested. While the citrus problem is the main one, there is another one you would not have thought of. Dieing pythons and iguanas. Wildlife researchers are working swiftly to try to ease the problem at all.
This could be a horrible situation. The citrus economy helps Florida's overall economy greatly. When jobs are already hard to come by, losing your main one could be disastrous. Also the prices of orange juice and oranges could skyrocket stretching already tight pocketbooks. To make matters worse, wildlife species are dieing, and there is not much anybody can do to help any of these problems. What ever happened to global warming?
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