Stop Clearcutting Pasco’s Heritage Oaks

11/03/2026

Someone mentioned how screwed Florida is with the choices for governor. My thoughts:

We are screwed either way. A bought off 3 time felon in Byron Donalds and a Jolly who has jumped from party to party. But you know what I voted for 2 different parties. I’m a republican and I’m sick of all the crap candidates we have in Florida! From the corrupt Florida agricultural commissioner Wilton Simpson to Florida House of Representatives Randy Maggard who is Pasco county commissioner Ron Oakley’s brother in law. Not only that but all of the individuals have sold off land to developers, have active real estate licenses and have several development companies between them. I am genuinely tired of the 30+ years I have fought to stop the growth and destruction of Pasco county as well as the other 67 counties in Florida! Let the 80% northerners who are now the majority of Florida’s population have it! With only 21% of Florida’s 23 million people living here the real Florida is gone! Building huge zero lot line cookie cutter subdivisions, townhomes and apartments that look like projects. Let them drain the Floridan Aquifer so Georgia, Alabama, the Carolinas also have water issues because Florida is using more water than any state in the country! For what? Four 33 million gallon lagoons: Epperson, Mirada, Angeline and another new subdivision going up. Pasco county commissioners are also allowing developers carte blanch on pumping as much water as they want every single day! Another 4,000 acre water park in Pasco. When we residents continue to be on water restrictions. But apparently the 700,000 people living in Pasco don’t care their tap water is basically toilet to tap as Pasco County has inadequate wastewater facilities to handle the crap so they are now
pumping chemically treated wastewater into dry well fields. Using heavy doses of Liquid Sodium Hypochlorite which is a known carcinogen (this coming from Erin Brockovich’s group). So when your tap water looks like this you will realize that it is indeed wastewater! Many people complain but not many act. Those of us who do have shared the fact we have weekly meetings every Tuesday at 9:00 AM at the Dade City IHOP to share information. This is open to the public but so far it’s the same handful of people showing up. We also hold meetings the first Thursday of each month at 6:00 PM at the Dade City IHOP. So if you are interested in sharing or asking questions please attend these meetings. My husband and I have been flooded out of 2 previous properties! I have been attending both planning meetings and commission meetings for over 30+ years! My husband and I are actively looking for properties in north Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. Florida will continue to develop until there is no green space left. In south Florida they have actually built subdivisions right up to the edge of the Florida Everglades! There is no safe property developers will not attempt to build on! I have watch Pasco County Commissioners strip the greenbelt which was put there to protect northeast rural Pasco County. County commissioners continue to change their own land use policies so they can continue to build anywhere they want. They absolutely do not care about their constituents. They are only concerned about $$$$$. My personal solution is to get the hell out of Florida as I’m tired of the heat because thousands of heritage oak trees ages 50 to a 100 years old are bulldozed down. This is why Pasco County temps reached triple digits every year. This is why November December is 85 degrees! I’m in Georgia right now looking at the beautiful fall colors of trees. I’ve not seen one dump truck or bulldozer pushing down protected heritage oaks and long leaf pine’s which the American bald eagles nest in. Good luck to those of you who decide to stay. I’ve had enough after 68 years of watching the nice beautiful Pasco County and the state of Florida be destroyed by nothing but pure greed!
Chef out my public page: Stop Clearcutting Pasco’s Heritage Oaks

11/03/2026

Folks it’s time to put your foot down and start speaking up! Call, email your local governments and state governments to STOP
THE OVERDEVELOPMENT THAT IS FLOODING PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR HOMES! I know several people who live in Okeechobee and Palm Beach County where our daughter and grandchildren live! This is not because of rain! This is because developers are raising the new developments much higher than roads and existing neighborhoods! I actually send 3-5 emails a day to Pasco County commissioners. I send each fatality, flooded properties even when it only rains for 2 to 3 days.

There are families in Okeechobee this morning looking out their windows at water where water doesn’t belong. Some are worried about their homes, some about their belongings, and others are wondering whether they’ll even be able to get down their own street.

For those folks, this isn’t a political debate. It’s personal. It’s their home, their property, their peace of mind, and in some cases, everything they’ve worked for.

And I think they deserve a whole lot more than sympathy and explanations about how much rain we got.

We live in Florida. It rains. Sometimes it rains a whole lot. Yesterday’s rainfall was significant, but events like this are neither unimaginable nor unprecedented. We know they happen. We know where many of our drainage problems are. We know that development changes how water moves. And we know that failing to maintain and improve drainage infrastructure eventually catches up with us.

So why does it seem like we’re always having the same conversation after the water is already rising?

Our local leaders have spent years presiding over budgets supported by rising property values and substantial tax revenues. They’ve found the time and money to debate, plan, expand, and fund all manner of government priorities.

But what about the priorities that protect the very people paying those taxes?

How many known drainage problems were left waiting? How many improvements were postponed? How much preventative maintenance was performed? How much was requested, how much was funded, and how much was spent elsewhere?

Those aren’t unfair questions. They’re questions that should have been answered long before yesterday.

And I’m not particularly interested in watching one government agency point at another. Whether it’s the county, the city, a drainage district, or a state agency, the public deserves to know who was responsible for what, what they actually did, and what they could have done better.

Nobody expects our elected officials to stop the rain. But we absolutely should expect them to exhaust every reasonable opportunity to protect the people they serve.

That’s what leadership is supposed to look like. Not simply managing a disaster once it arrives, but making difficult decisions and setting priorities long before it does.

And here’s something worth considering.

We’ve heard an awful lot lately about the essential services that could supposedly suffer if government has to operate with less property tax revenue. Infrastructure and flood control are certainly essential. In fact, they’re among the very things expressly preserved in Amendment 3.

Interesting, isn’t it, how quickly we can identify something as essential when discussing the possibility of having less money, but how difficult it can be to explain whether it received the attention it deserved when revenues were plentiful?

I’m not suggesting every flooded street could have been prevented. That’s neither realistic nor fair.

But I am suggesting that the people of Okeechobee deserve a thorough accounting of what was known, what was planned, what was funded, and what was actually accomplished.

Because if there were reasonable steps that could have reduced the damage, and those steps were neglected, that’s not something we should simply shrug off as Mother Nature.

To the families dealing with this mess, you deserve compassion, help, and answers. You shouldn’t have to become an expert in drainage engineering or government budgeting just to understand why your neighborhood keeps flooding.

Government cannot be held responsible for the rain. But it can, and should, be held accountable for the decisions made before the first drop fell.

And the time to demand those answers isn’t after everybody has forgotten about the water.

It’s right now.

11/01/2026

Help catch this person and who is responsible for killing one person and seriously injuring 2 others!

Tampa police are searching for a driver who fled the scene of a deadly crash Saturday night after first fleeing from a traffic stop, authorities said.

11/01/2026

Okay I have owned horses my entire life! We have been flooded off 2 prior properties by developers! We currently live on 4 acres in Zephryhills just a quarter mile from the Polk county line! We are a private road with several other horse owners. Our home is 2400 square foot 4 bedrooms/2.5 bathrooms. Setup with 4 paddocks: 2 with grass 2 without. Complete with dog kennels, 4 stalls, automatic water and feeding, storage shed for ride on mowers/ATV, feed room and 2 covered hay for round bales. Backed up to 11,000 acre Upper Hillsborough Horse Trails which FWC put a gate so we can ride right off our property. Only 7 minutes to C**t Creek State Park with equestrian camping. I’m putting this out here because at the rate Pasco County is developing this road will never be touched! Currently homes are being built in Trilby priced over a million dollars which is ridiculous!

11/01/2026

Wesley Chapel getting multi million dollar private club! Meanwhile the rest of Pasco County gets nothing! 4 traffic fatalities in the last week! But keep spending millions where the $$$$ is! Sickening!

10/31/2026

This is Merritt Island and yes it’s a preserve so these alligators are safe!

10/30/2026

This is an amazing human being! Thank God he found this dog! We rescued a 5 week old puppy who had been tossed in a ditch in Florida. I said as I picked her up and told her “I got you sweetie”. That’s her name. She’s the best dog ever! Lab/Catahoula mix! We’ve had her 3 years now and she goes everywhere with us! 💖

10/30/2026

Very sad all because of a distracted semi was watching Netflix! 😢💔

A truck driver has admitted fault after authorities said he was watching Netflix when he crashed into a couple on a Minnesota interstate, killing them. Bil

10/30/2026

Okay folks! Here’s one for the books! Florida’s malpractice laws make it easy on bad doctors. This woman absolutely deserves to sue the Florida hospital for discharging her daughter when it was known she was suffering from sepsis! As someone who nearly lost my left leg (possibly my life) after a hospital orthopedic surgeon caused my left leg which was severely broken was casted with no antibiotics and within 2 weeks the pink cast had black spots on it. I called the office and was told to come in immediately. Thank God a different doctor was there. I went in to emergency surgery and had infectious disease doctors create an antibiotic cocktail to stop the infection and had my leg repaired by removing most of the tissue
left ankle and leg. Had I waited 24 hours I would not be here! Florida malpractice laws need to change! The doctor that caused all of this was a lobbyist to lower the cost of malpractice for orthopedic surgeons! Bad doctors should not be able to practice! This woman lost her daughter clearly to malpractice!! She is the next of kin and should be able to sue! Any thoughts on this?

Two years after her only daughter died just hours after leaving a Florida hospital, Beth Miller says she is still searching for answers. She also wants to