Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Books Featuring Frigid, Icy Worlds

WolfFan wrote:

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 that’s Dade. Dade County changed its name to Miami-Dade County. (Everyone
still calls it Dade; when Dwayne Wade and the Miami Heat were riding high,
there was a big sign on I-95 welcoming you to Wade County. Embarassed the
hell out of Wade.) Which meant that every single official vehicle had to be
repainted in the new colors with the new logo. Guess who had a friend in the
auto painting business... Every single official county form had to be redone.
Guess who had a friend in the printing business... And yes, he got to be a
guest of the Feds.

Many people from Ontario spend winter or part of winter in Florida.  So there's plenty of opportunity for cross-contamination.

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The media have not reported on any incompetence as a cause for the
explosion of downtown Wheatley a couple of years ago. I wonder, though.
It's not like small towns in Ontario blow up all that often.

 The closest we had to that was an apartment building blow up. There were code
violations all over, for years, but it was in Dade. Money talks. Until the
thing broke, killing dozens.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57690165

Those towers were built by a Canadian developer from Quebec, hence the name.  To what degree, if any, he was responsible for later poor maintenance I do not know.
William Hyde