Everybody in Florida knows Gators are wimps.  GO NOLES ! ! !

(Gainesville, east til you smell it, south til you step in it )

lol

I just read that gators and crocs are fast but not agile (on land) so if being chased by them, run in a zig-zag pattern.

safety rule #1, don't go near enough to the toothy little bastard in the first place! 

back in college I had a job driving a pickup overnight (midnight to 5am) to Gainesville to meet with the Miami Herald distributor, get my papers, and run them back to Tallahassee.  US 27 through the swamps and forests.  One night, thankfully AFTER somebody else had hit him, I ran over a gator that must have been warming itself on the leftover heat of the roadway.  If someone else hadn't flattened him, it would've flipped my mini-pickup, those things are thick as logs!

Q - what's the only good thing to come out of Gainesville?

A - I-75   *sound of thousands of drunk FSU students laffiing!*

Hey, did you all weather the bad storms ok last night?  I heard they're comin' this-a-way.

Ewww... flattened gator!

Yeah, we made it safe. 18 tornados touched down yesterday. Some people I know didn't make it out unscathed. I have some pictures from a friend. I personally didn't see a tornado.

Here are two: