LCD - Day 2

I'm going to let you in on a little secret. It is really really sunny in Florida. You literally have no idea. I'm used to that Northern Sun where you can squint or close one eye and still be able to hap-hazardously navigate your vehicle down the freeway. Florida is different. You walk out of Starbucks, and INSTANT BLINDNESS! But it doesn't go away. It's almost like I'm experiencing the sun for the first time. Yeah, the intensity might be greater since I am closer to the equator, but the way the light just purely engulfs things is quite remarkable.

As an Ohioan, I'm used to cloudy and overcast days. It's not really ever a surprise to see the streetlights on in the middle of the day. It just gets dark when the sky gets depressed. But as I eluded to in yesterday's post, the sun can still get to you even with cloud cover in Florida.

So the real observation (since that's what I'm being graded on) concerning this comparison is how you deal with blinding rays of Zeus. In Ohio, it doesn't matter the day; you put your sun visor down and presto! it creates a comfortable reprieve for your eyeballs by casting a soft shadow. In Florida, the physics of diffraction scoff at you as the light seemingly does not distribute regards, bends around your visor, and continues to bombard your retinas. Soft shadow or hard shadow? None whatsoever.