The Florida of My Youth: Hurricane Fears and Atom Bomb Solutions – Renegade South
By Vikki Bynum My forthcoming book, Deep Roots, Broken Branches, contains two chapters about my childhood in Tampa, Florida, from 1952 to 1958. In those chapters, I mention sunny days and long vacations at gorgeous beaches, but nowhere do I discuss hurricanes. Quite simply, although hurricanes threatened Florida throughout these years, none touched down in…