my uncle use to work on fish boats in florida.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Florida (; Spanish for \"land of flowers\") is the southernmost state in the southeastern region of the United States. The state is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico and Alabama, to the north by Alabama and Georgia, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, and to the south by the Straits of Florida. Florida is the 22nd-most extensive, the 3rd-most populous, and the 8th-most densely populated of the U.S. states. Jacksonville is the most populous municipality in the state and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States (due to the consolidation of Jacksonville with Duval County). The Miami metropolitan area is Florida's most populous urban area. Tallahassee is the state's capital. About two-thirds of Florida occupies a peninsula between the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Florida has the longest coastline in the contiguous United States, approximately , not including the contribution of the many barrier islands. It is the only state that borders both the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Much of the state is at or near sea level and is characterized by sedimentary soil. Florida has the lowest high point of any U.S. state. The climate varies from subtropical in the north to tropical in the south.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Hey there!  My uncle used to work on fishing boats in Florida.  He'd take people out on trips into the Gulf of Mexico."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Cool! I used to leave near the Gulf of Mexico, in Galveston."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Were you there during Hurricane Ike in 2008?  It was a CAT 2 when it made landfall and caused a lot of flooding."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I was! It was scary, but fortunately I was not affected. There was a lot of flooding."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I'm glad you were OK!  That was a bad one, it affected the entire US economy for years afterward.  140,000 people had to evacuate."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That's very sad. I know many evacuees went north to Dallas and Oklahoma."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "That's right, and then to financial crisis happened in 2008 as well, making everything even worse.  Those were tough years!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Tough years, indeed. I am glad they are behind us!"}]