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I’ve lived on beaches all over Florida— Pensacola to Jacksonville to Miami and now Sarasota— for a few decades.
I’ve never smelled a Red Tide this bad.
My house is 400 yards from the inner-coastal and you can smell the dead fish, turtles, manatees & dolphins from here. It’s bad.
Any of y’all Gulf Coasters remember one this bad?
And by the way, cancel your Florida vacation if you were planning on coming down here in the next couple weeks (say, Tampa to Naples maybe).
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Wow. That sucks.
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Can't you just mix in some blue so it's a purple tide.
I hear teenagers these days are biting into tide pods, they seem pretty stupid, maybe have them clean it up. Give everyone selfie sticks and call it a summer job camp and they won't know the difference.
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Also you made the writing red, I wonder what adding a smurf to the wash will do...
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Yeah I was wondering from where the red text came too — and was planning on smurfing it up to boot; you beat me to it.
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Well, my buddy who works at one of the restaurants on the gulf is ill from the respiratory effects of the red tide. It’ll be in the tens or likely the hundreds of thousands of folks on the water down here that get respiratory problems. I’m thinking about buying one of those masks from a pharmacy to wear when I’m outside. (Good excuse for my lawn-guys to not mow my grass). It sucks we won’t be able to eat seafood for a few months. But I feel bad for the tons of tourists who came down, got sick, and had to go home early.
I don’t follow the news so much; is our red tide making any headlines anywhere outside of FL?
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Not that I've seen.
If it isn't happening on the east coast and doesn't include multiple injuries CNN couldn't care less.
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It seems to be easing up some here in Sanibel/Fort Myers Beach/Lee County, but it's still in the air. But I can't see the annual outbreaks going away anytime soon.
Everyone in Florida says they want it to end, but golf courses and walled-in gated communities want their lush year-round lawns and landscaping, and the agribusinesses want their artificially abundant crops; both of which generate huge amounts of fertilizer runoffs into the waterways while environmental protection laws remain pathetically underenforced. Phosphate mining and agribusiness both aggressively fight any environmental regulations with PR commercials and bankrolling politician elections. There are still a large number of communities with 40-50+ yro septic tank and sewer systems leaking into the canals and rivers. All of this in a state where decades ago the Army Corps of Engineers terraformed huge chunks of marshy and swampy land into habitable real estate with minimal provisions for preserving the natural water flow and filtration. For decades, environmentalists and sane officials have pushed for long term fixes and restoration, but state and Federal legislatures have largely vetoed such efforts in favor of corporate interests and being deliberately, spitefully obstructive to funding any projects outside their own legislative districts.
I'm afraid the annual red tide blooms in Florida are here to stay for the foreseeable future, just like drought and wildfires in California and the West/Midwest.
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No drought this year for the upper Midwest, this year we're going the other way.
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Not that I've seen.
If it isn't happening on the east coast and doesn't include multiple injuries CNN couldn't care less.
east coast is best coast.
... why is everything red, here?
Oh, wait. A bunch of things turned red. Hold on.
Huh. Well, now that I've explored other threads, it's interesting that typed text in here becomes red, as does info headers like, "Last Post" and "by Drjek" or "Recent Threads in Off-Topic Discussion" even as the thread titles, buttons, and actual forumer names, the number of minutes from/exact time of the last post remains blue - ah, basically links remain blue! That makes sense! Just information that isn't links or other buttons seems to have turned red. Weird! And only on this thread... huh.
... weeeeiiiirrrrrd.
I wonder what other colors are affected!
Hrm... I wonder if purple could be nabbed, or, perhaps, gold or blue.
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I hate to hear about your troubles with the tide and the loss of the animals. I can't say that I can really commiserate because I've never even seen the ocean, much less a red tide. But I hope it clears up soon.
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... weeeeiiiirrrrrd.
I wonder what other colors are affected!
Hrm... I wonder if purple could be nabbed, or, perhaps, gold or blue.
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I hate to hear about your troubles with the tide and the loss of the animals. I can't say that I can really commiserate because I've never even seen the ocean, much less a red tide. But I hope it clears up soon.
You poor, sweet, Mr. Potato-Head of a man. I sincerely encourage you to do so, should you ever have the means.
east coast is best coast.
You got the horseshoe crabs, no denying that. Other than that? The smeg it is.
Not that I've seen.
If it isn't happening on the east coast and doesn't include multiple injuries CNN couldn't care less.
What do you expect from an outfit whose concept of journalism is "Let's ask what Twitter thinks!"?
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Whoa, dudes! Everything's so RED!
I hate to hear about your troubles with the tide and the loss of the animals. I can't say that I can really commiserate because I've never even seen the ocean, much less a red tide. But I hope it clears up soon.You poor, sweet, Mr. Potato-Head of a man. I sincerely encourage you to do so, should you ever have the means.
east coast is best coast.You got the horseshoe crabs, no denying that. Other than that? The smeg it is.
What do you expect from an outfit whose concept of journalism is "Let's ask what Twitter thinks!"?Not that I've seen.
If it isn't happening on the east coast and doesn't include multiple injuries CNN couldn't care less.
If I want smeg, I'll check out the west coast.
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I think 'smeg' is a good word.
Meanwhile, the red tide smell (all the dead animals rotting on the beaches a few hundred feet away) seems to only waft this far in from about 3:00pm--10:00pm. But during those hours, boy, do you not want to have to go outside.
Hopefully the algae will start dying off or going away soon.
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Another week and the smell some days is actually painful in assaulting your nostrils.
For a few days the County decided to not remove fish carcasses because the work was too costly and seemed futile. You could see thousands of floating, rotting fish undulating in the water as you drove over a bridge or looked out at the inner-coastal. It looked surreal, floating, bloated things in the water. Everywhere. I really think you could almost jump from bobbing-corpse to corpse the entirety of the three-to-four miles to the outer islands and beaches.
They’ve since resumed cleaning.
But the smell still permeates the air and seeps through the walls of your home. It’s in the house.
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Hah! I'm alive! Suck on that, green slime!
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No green slime up here, or red tide, just snow.
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And rain, lots of stupid f*~#ing rain.
Jelly!
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Ow!
... SUCKER!
*engages in lawsuit to wring mad cash that he probably doesn't have out of IHIYC, but secretly forces other people to pay*