Indeed, the region's breaking point is a place to which most residents travel once a year, usually during the humid mid-months of summer. The inexorable journey toward warm weather dementia is not unique to Northeast Florida, but it is more pronounced in this border region. It is this opacity of purpose that causes such savage midsummer doldrums. Central and Southern Florida may have more intense heat than the Northeast, but they have the luxury of profiting from it.
Heat is their chief commodity, their bread and butter.
Summers may be slow, but the city's legislative pendulum gives it a clarity of mission and a cycle more reliable than Ortho Novum. After a season of sausagemaking Tallahassee style, summer is welcome downtime, not purgatory. If summer is tough here, one might think, it has to be worse for our neighbors to the north. Such is not the case. No one expects Bacon County scenery to reproduce like a glossy brochure.