"Add in the heat without AC. Few houses down there today were designed for living without AC. Add in that twenty percent of the population was elderly. So many died in the first days that they say that in some of the retirement towns the dead carpeted the streets, again like something out of the plagues of old. Disease just exploded in that climate; that's what killed most of them before starvation even set in… food poisoning, heat exhaustion, bad water or no water, then malaria, West Nile. They say typhoid and dysentery ran rampant in the Miami area; there were even reports of bubonic
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