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Florida had it easy for too long.


According to this article you may well be right:

"Yet for all its fury, this season's burst of activity falls well within the bounds of past experience. What's surprising, say experts, is that the US and Florida haven't seen more major storms make landfall over the past few decades."

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0913/p01s03-usgn.html