As another Floridian, I was almost wiped out by a mattress. I was going down the road behind an SUV, when a mattress blew out of the truck in front of SUV and over it. Lucky for me, the mattress slid over SUV roof and a crosswind cought it and blew to the side and into the median instead of hitting me. Dude on truck never even noticed he lost his load and kept on going.