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Flooding in the Las Palmas neighborhood just east of Everglades National Park in November stranded a FedEx truck.
On the edge of the Everglades, less than a couple thousand feet from a backdoor entrance to the national park, the Las Palmas neighborhood teeters like a forlorn scheme to conquer the marshes.
Perfectly gridded lots are filled with heavy equipment, plant nurseries and a handful of houses. Goats and dogs wander fenced yards. And after a good rain, there’s water everywhere.
“I left for work in the morning before 8 a.m. and we had puddles. No big deal,” resident Raul Arrazcaeta said in November after a downpour the night before. “When I got home at 5:30, I had five inches of water on my driveway. Right now, I’m sitting on my porch and the only thing that doesn’t have any water is my porch.”
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The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal by a Florida environmentalist who was facing a $4.4 million verdict in a lawsuit stemming from her opposition to a project in Martin County.
Wait, snake and eggs for breakfast? Florida might encourage to fight python invasion
Updated Dec 20, 2020;
Posted Dec 20, 2020
Donna Kalil (right) and Renee Yousefi bag an 8-foot Burmese python in Miami-Dade County in July 2018.Jim Rassol/Sun Sentinel/TNS
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Donna Kalil estimates she’s eaten a dozen pythons in the last three years or so.
That’s not including the python jerky, says Kalil, a python hunter for the South Florida Water Management District. “I eat that several times a week because I take it out with me on python hunts and I eat it out there.”