During the brutally hot summer months, the interior of your car turns into an oven. As the temperature outside creeps closer to 100 degrees Fahrenheit, the inside of a vehicle left in the sun can reach as high as 170 degrees. Tragically, according to the non-profit child safety group Kids and Cars, 38 children die […]
This week BBIMI is giving you a glimpse at 15 facts you probably did not know before you read this blog post. The world is full of useless, yet entertaining information and we would be crazy not to shed some light on this subject. There’s just two more days until the weekend, so enjoy this […]
A sidewalk in downtown Washington, D.C., looked a little different Thursday, courtesy of a set of freshly stenciled commands separating the path into lanes: “NO CELLPHONES” on the left, “CELLPHONES: WALK IN THIS LANE AT YOUR OWN RISK” on the right. A solid line split those lanes. The phone lane, additionally, featured north- and south-facing […]
Giancarlo Stanton didn’t leave Target Field as the Home Run Derby champion. But that doesn’t mean he’s done trying. The Marlins’ 24-year-old slugger said Tuesday he’s already looking forward to getting another chance in next year’s Derby at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati, baseball’s most prolific launching pad for home runs. “I was already […]
If you live in Florida, you’ve probably heard of Wind Mitigation Insurance. Many property owners receive wind mitigation inspections to assess the preparedness of their homes and businesses in resisting the effects of windstorm damage or loss. Interestingly, even in Florida, wind mitigation inspections are not required by insurance companies or mortgage lenders – it’s […]
Living in a home in Florida, you have to make sure you protect your house from natural disasters with homeowner’s insurance. Although the most prominent type of disasters in South Florida are hurricanes, homeowner’s need to protect themselves from sinkholes or catastrophic ground collapse. Sinkholes take place when soil collapses into large holes caused by […]
This week BBIMI is giving you a glimpse at 15 facts you probably did not know before you read this blog post. The world is full of useless, yet entertaining information and we would be crazy not to shed some light on this subject. There’s just two more days until the weekend, so enjoy this […]
If they were going to make history by winning the World Cup — and Germany’s soccer team certainly did that on Sunday afternoon in Rio de Janeiro — they did it the way that it should be done. They beat all comers and they smothered the world’s two best players along the way. It took […]
You could only hope to venture out to enjoy Florida’s beautiful summer weather and return home without a mosquito bite. Summer excitement is quickly replaced with a feeling of helplessness, as you try to relieve the bites with excessive scratching. This inconvenience makes us wish we could “bite” mosquitoes back. As bizarre as this may […]
The search is on for hi-tech thieves who are stealing hundreds of gallons of fuel at a time without gas station employees ever knowing. Investigators said a group of men are targeting fueling centers all over South Florida using specially modified vehicles with false floorboards. They pull over gas caps and begin siphoning thousands of […]