Bimini Twist preparing for the 2009 Ft. Lauderdale Winterfest Boat Parade, an annual boating tradition near the holiday season. You will meet the owners and learn what it takes to win 6 years in a row at the Ft. Lauderdale parade. For those not familiar with the Winterfest Boat Parade imagine a long procession of boats of various sizes and shapes all decorated with thousands of Christmas lights & props, playing music and waltzing down the New River & the Intercostal Waterways. What a sight!

The non-stop rain and rising water levels was a major bummer for one local boater. We have pictures taken behind my friend’s house in Aventura, when we returned an hour later the boat was completely submerged. This sucks!!!

(CNN) — The answer to easing the energy crunch in one of the nation’s most populous states could lie underwater.