Patti Thompson
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Patti Thompson
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It's a carefully calculated effort on the part of the people that manatees are in the way of.
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It's going to come in pieces because that's how our accounting is coming to us.
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I think we're getting a lot of hits from it, because we'll have people who read it or saw it and they're wondering about how to handle an insurance agent or adjustor or how did I get through the night. This is very much a good complement to our business.
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They often venture out, go farther than the closest available food resources. But it's a concern that the closest food source won't be available to them this year. They have energy budgets that they don't want to overuse, and if the closest source is in bad shape, they'll have to travel farther to find food.
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They are highly migratory and move from one place to another. They tool up and down the coast, following the food supply, females and even showing their calves where to go to be safe. You are definitely in manatee habitat in the Putnam County area.
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There were many findings of exposed wiring and breaker boxes... not up to code. There were also problems with smoke alarms... I guess it was re-occurring in many of the cabins.
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There are four main areas of concern where manatees tend to live. The northeast or upper St. Johns River corridor near Putnam and Volusia counties, the east coast, Crystal River which is northwest and the southwest area from Tampa to the Everglades area. Two of those areas, the two small ones, Crystal River and the upper St. Johns River, are doing well in those regions.