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glowing

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5. Not exactly.. The Tampa area for this
Mon Jul 23, 2012, 02:32 AM
Jul 2012

convention was a dumb choice.

Anyone who knows the area would know how easy it would be to make serious jam ups in the Convention area... It's more about traffic in an area that is a pain in the ass on a normal business day.

There are 3 public schools and 1 college that are going to have a ton of trouble getting the kids in and out via bus or commute. It's a nightmare situation in the making if it was only Pukes showing up. It wouldn't take much to shut off the pathways into the convention.

If they wanted a FL location, Orlando would have been the better choice. I live in the area and u can't pay me enough to even try to drive downtown for anything, let alone try to go anywhere near the convention site area.

I know it's money for the area during a time that hotels and tourist attractions begin to die down because the FL kids go back to school a couple of weeks into august, but it's going to be hot, crowded and I'm not sure how smooth things will go?

And 50 people standing around... That's a restaurant full of people having a luncheon. It's going to be a difficult week to say the least.

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