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Maybe 72 degree waters are cold to you. But it's not cold to a lot of people. It feels great when you go in to escape the heat and humidity, though beaches tend to be far less humid. While I do love 85 degree water, as well, sometimes it can be too warm. Bath water isn't always desired when you're trying to cool off.
72 degrees is fine...for cold weather. Those are winter time water temperatures along the Texas Gulf Coast.
Of course, to swim at Galveston's beaches, you actually have to go into the diarrheal sludge. It doesn't help the experience that it's almost body temperature.
Body temperature is 98 degrees genius.
Galveston's water is not dirty because of sewage it looks dirty because of silt (sand & clay) from the Mighty Mississippi River. I'd rather swim in a brown ocean than a brown lake anyday as salt water kills everything.
There are some individual states that, like California, are distinct in and of themselves: Florida, Texas, New Mexico, Alaska, Hawaii, Oregon/Washington (they're more similar than not to each other, but not the rest of the U.S.), and Kentucky/West Virginia (like OR/WA in their own sense).
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Body temperature is 98 degrees genius.
Galveston's water is not dirty because of sewage it looks dirty because of silt (sand & clay) from the Mighty Mississippi River. I'd rather swim in a brown ocean than a brown lake anyday as salt water kills everything.
Again, you are either confused or delusional. So, the industrial and agricultural pollution of Galveston Bay has no effect on Galveston, but the Mississippi's (all clean, with no agricultural or industrial runoff there, I'm sure) clean, fertile silt somehow does an end-around on it and makes the water brown?
I agree it isn't sewage...at least not all of it is. Please remember the years of River Oaks dumping raw sewage into Buffalo Bayou, which becomes the industrial, petrochemical hellhole known as the Houston Ship Channel, which drains into...Galveston Bay, of which Galveston is a barrier island. But I'm sure that's all just fertile silt from the Mississippi. The toxic stuff probably doesn't get churned up in the surf. Please also look out on the horizon at the many leaking wells and rusting steel platforms. I guess the regular occurrences of tar on the beach at Galveston are just more fertile silt washing up.
Again, you are either confused or delusional. So, the industrial and agricultural pollution of Galveston Bay has no effect on Galveston, but the Mississippi's (all clean, with no agricultural or industrial runoff there, I'm sure) clean, fertile silt somehow does an end-around on it and makes the water brown?
I agree it isn't sewage...at least not all of it is. Please remember the years of River Oaks dumping raw sewage into Buffalo Bayou, which becomes the industrial, petrochemical hellhole known as the Houston Ship Channel, which drains into...Galveston Bay, of which Galveston is a barrier island. But I'm sure that's all just fertile silt from the Mississippi. The toxic stuff probably doesn't get churned up in the surf. Please also look out on the horizon at the many leaking wells and rusting steel platforms. I guess the regular occurrences of tar on the beach at Galveston are just more fertile silt washing up.
I don't understand. Are you conceding? Or, are you trying to divert the conversation?
Pictures say 1,000 words.
We all know California has the most polluted cities in the country & interestingly enough even their water is super polluted. So much for the left wing environmentalists out there doing jack squat.
Texas Conservatives hate the environment thought right?
Houston/Galveston didn't even crack the top 10 in 2 out of the 3 categories.
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You found a picture of an oil spill cleanup on an urban waterway that has no relevance whatsoever to your claim that Galveston water is clean.
I am well aware of pollution in San Francisco Bay. The difference is, I don't fool myself into thinking it is clean, fertile silt. relative to Texas, the beaches of Northern California are very clean, so I am not sure what your point is. Urban waterways are polluted no matter where you go, which is a seemingly unavoidable shame, but the beach water here where people, rather than ships provide the traffic is clear and blue, not brown and murky as in Galveston.
Note: I picked photos of similarly cloudy days at both places. I've heard some Texans try to say that water color is more determinant on blue sky it is reflecting...
Would you care to address that statement about how clean Galveston is or not?
You found a picture of an oil spill cleanup on an urban waterway that has no relevance whatsoever to your claim that Galveston water is clean.
I am well aware of pollution in San Francisco Bay. The difference is, I don't fool myself into thinking it is clean, fertile silt. relative to Texas, the beaches of Northern California are very clean, so I am not sure what your point is. Urban waterways are polluted no matter where you go, which is a seemingly unavoidable shame, but the beach water here where people, rather than ships provide the traffic is clear and blue, not brown and murky as in Galveston.
Note: I picked photos of similarly cloudy days at both places. I've heard some Texans try to say that water color is more determinant on blue sky it is reflecting...
Would you care to address that statement about how clean Galveston is or not?
That pic you posted was on the industrial side of Galveston Bay where not even a turtle would dare venture off to, not at the real beach. This is what our water & coasts really look like here in Texas.
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