We are out of state. D went to college in FL, likes the weather and found a job post graduation west of Tampa. We are apartment hunting. Any advice on places to look and things/places to watch out for? Almost everything seems to be in a flood zone…how worried should we be about that?
Most of us in Tampa live in a flood zone. But there are several different flood zones with varying degrees of risk. And there are also evacuation zones which many people confuse with flood zones. There has been a lot of new apartment construction in my part of town in just the past few years. I wouldn’t have any concern about those properties because they were built to comply to the FEMA flood maps. Feel free to PM me and I’ll try to help you with more specific areas.
When you say west of Tampa, do you mean the west side of Tampa or Clearwater/St. Pete in Pinellas County?
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Well, it depends on how big the Alligators are. 
Can’t help but wanted to say, I remember your daughter was EE major. A Huge congratulations on the job and graduating early. That is extremely impressive. Wishing your daughter all the best!!!
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Thank you! She did dual enrollment at our local flagship senior year, AP,CLEP. She was self motivated to save $$ and graduate in 3 years. She graduates in May in Computer Engineering (she pivoted a bit from EE when she discovered she enjoyed coding and had some internship experiences). I think I remember your daughter being EE? I hope she is doing well too.
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Yes, my daughter is EE major will have another internship this summer in Dallas at TI and hoping she gets a offer for her first job as EE. Proud of both our daughters.
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Awesome! I’m glad there are more women in Engineering. My S was glad there were some female engineers in his program at USoCal. They had a program to nurture them, WISE. He was happy to have one or more women in his study group and have a woman work with him for an engineering professor.
Good luck to these young women and their colleagues! Congratulations!
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I often ask my daughter if she feels like she is treated any differently as a female in male dominated field and she has never experienced it even when there are only a few women in a large class. She is also the type who isn’t looking for ways to be offended. Her professors/classmates/colleagues seem to not make a big deal out of it and that is encouraging. I hope other female engineers are having similar good experiences.
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One of our friends had a daughter in engineering. When she was out in the workforc as an intern, one of her supervisors was from a different culture and treated women badly. She still met her now H in the position but she and he left the company sooner than they would have if the supervisor had been more supportive.
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My engineer daughter had more troubles with the male/female issues in college than in her job, especially with group projects. Now, she’s the golden child in her (small) department and her two male supervisors love her and they all sort of joke the the two men don’t work very hard (you can set a watch by the one who leaves exactly at 4 every day).
She asked for more responsibilities this year and they are sending her to conferences and trainings.
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My daughter and my daughter in law are engineers. Both thriving in their jobs and enjoying what they do.
For my daughter, she’s a mechanical and works at a small manufacturing plant. Her manager has been great and she’s had good opportunities. And they been very supportive of her.
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I can’t believe we’re still having conversations about how it’s a big deal for women to be engineers. I went to an engineering school in the late 70’s/early 80’s, and there were few women … in fact, the first female (just one) graduated in 1970. I’m glad to see that your D’s are engineers … I hope we continue to see growth in numbers of female engineers.
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Good to hear so many great women in engineering stories and sorry to hear when women are treated differently or poorly.
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When I was in school, only about 10% of our engineering college was women, but I knew a lot of them as sorority sisters. They are now retiring from great careers. One worked at NASA on the robotic arm of the space station, one scheduled emergency vehicles for hurricanes, another invented something and holds the patent (so retired early). A small but mighty group.
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