I think it has something to do with the sinkholes, which I have found to be figurative as well as literal in Florida.
The Gravities are now the least of my worries. In fact, they've been behaving very well since the last two software updates until last night's hiccough.
Right now, we've got bigger issues. Last Saturday just before dusk our next-door neighbor was sitting on her lanai with her back to the side screen. A black Ford pickup drove past our house, stopped in the middle of the road alongside the large open space between us, and shot at her. The shooter was using a noise suppressor, but she heard the bullet whiz by her. Everyone on the street has video cameras. We got shots of the incident and one blurry shot of the driver's profile but, unfortunately, no clear image of the license plate. Two deputies spent the night at her house, and she is now out of town.
Her husband is a retired DEA agent and now splits his time as a government contractor and as the weapons instructor for the local Sheriff Department. He is out of the country right now on an assignment. He and his wife also run a charity-funded protection consulting service for victims of abuse. We think one of these factors might be the reason their house was targeted.
The "Free State of Florida" has gone absolutely gun crazy. Our neighbor has a sizable arsenal related to his work. The house beyond him has a gun room off the master bedroom hidden behind a movable floor-to-ceiling mirror. Two years ago our HOA spent several months and a good bit on legal fees getting an unlicensed gun range shut down at a residence on a nearby street. Even though they were cited for code violations, the local deputies were reluctant to enforce it because of recent state legislation that made it more difficult to restrict any gun use on private property. It had gotten to the point that we and our neighbors could not carry on conversations on our lanais on the weekends because of unrelenting gunfire noise carrying across the lake. Occasionally weapons were being fired that created concussion we could feel in our chests more than a mile away. Based on what I see on NextDoor.com, Saturday was far from the first incident of bullets whizzing through lanais out our way. But most seem to be the result of reckless target shooting from surrounding houses. People have found spent bullets in their pools, holes through their screens and grill covers, pulverized stucco. Saturday's incident, though, was clearly targeted.
We moved here thinking the alligators would be our biggest safety concern.
I did try the exorcism you suggested . . . but the lake just caught fire.