LAKE WORTH BEACH The most talked about home in Lake Worth Beach these days is a shipping container.
Roger Bennett, a former public relations executive for Ford Motor Co., is building a two-bedroom, two-bath residence at 128 North F St. made from the same 40-foot steel boxes used to transport cargo by sea.
Since the project broke ground in May, Bennett said he s given around 60 tours of the home and drawn scores of comments on his Facebook page, where he gives near-daily updates of the construction s progress. They re coming all the time, said Bennett, 58. People are just really curious because it s different. You see it and say, OK, that s not typical.
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Florida emergency-management workers aren’t approaching this year’s hurricane season as anything basic, but they are looking forward to what the new state director calls the ABCs “Anything But COVID.”
As the six-month hurricane season officially begins June 1, the Florida Division of Emergency Management will have surpassed 450 days responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“They would love to get back to doing tropical cyclones and wildfires and things like that, because we have been doing COVID a very long time, and we re ready to be doing something else,” division Director Kevin Guthrie said.
The hurricane season is projected to be above average for storms and got off to an early start as Tropical Storm Ana has already formed and dissipated,