It's not like you're not welcome here. It's just that it's probably not a good idea going forward. Like, forever.

“Florida is one of the riskiest places from a climate impact standpoint that you can live in,” said Rob Moore, director of the flooding solutions team at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

And we have a state legislature, ruled by one party for more than a generation, that is in climate denial; and believes that "resilience" will solve everything.

Of course, the marmot isn't going to stop anybody. And if it were easy, I'd fill in the 'chuck hole and find a field somewhere safer to burrow. Somewhere way north of here, at a higher elevation, with a reliable source of clean drinking water.

No, the marmot's probably stuck here until a disaster makes the decision for us. But if you don't live here yet, you're lucky.

You don't have to.