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Old 01-10-2018, 08:02 PM
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Many? What, 10%, 20%, 50%? No more like not even close to 1% of people

But please continue with your nonsense about the "deadly" GC water
Your absolutely correct and its quite obvious everyone that visits the beaches day after day and year after year feels the same way but you should know not to argue on the internet w/ an idiot.
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Old 01-11-2018, 04:04 AM
 
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https://www.instagram.com/p/BdyUGT7n...n-at=215920475

Heres a random instagram pic of St Pete Beach posted 3 hours ago. Hasn't exactly been a totally dry last couple weeks there

Wheres the poop brown water?
Need much more rain jane to make the water dark clark. We have only had around 1.40" so far this month. Now go back to 1998 this time and the bay was dark clark. We had 35" of rain that winter. Sometimes even 80 miles offshore the water can look black jack. Seen that in 1985 and 88. Odd to see black water that far offshore but it can happen.
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Old 01-11-2018, 06:50 AM
 
Location: South Tampa, Maui, Paris
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Here's some of the Lake Okeechobee diarrhea polluting the gulf near Sanibel (and causing bird deformities).

Deformed Birds Could Indicate A Polluted Gulf | WGCU News

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Old 01-11-2018, 06:52 AM
 
Location: South Tampa, Maui, Paris
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Here's an up close view of the diarrhea in the gulf

This is Fort Myers Beach

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Old 01-11-2018, 01:47 PM
 
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Here's an up close view of the diarrhea in the gulf

This is Fort Myers Beach
Sigh, I see the denial about the gulf is deep-seated. Let 'em marinate in the waters if they want, or hack up a lung from red tide, it's their funeral.
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Old 01-11-2018, 01:58 PM
 
Location: South Tampa, Maui, Paris
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Sigh, I see the denial about the gulf is deep-seated. Let 'em marinate in the waters if they want, or hack up a lung from red tide, it's their funeral.
Yeah, there's photographic evidence. Studies. Governmental warnings. Media warnings. But they stay in denial.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE FOLKS, just keep moving.
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Old 01-11-2018, 05:31 PM
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Beautiful pictures guys!
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Old 01-11-2018, 06:25 PM
 
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Beautiful pictures guys!
I agree. People see things as a "toilet" because their lives are a toilet. There is a saying that we don't see things as they are but as "we are."
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Old 01-12-2018, 08:47 AM
 
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I agree. People see things as a "toilet" because their lives are a toilet. There is a saying that we don't see things as they are but as "we are."


Speaking of toilets, if anyone wants to buy a beach house on Casey Key, please DM me!

Bonus diarrhea beach included at no charge!
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Old 01-12-2018, 11:00 AM
 
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I agree. People see things as a "toilet" because their lives are a toilet. There is a saying that we don't see things as they are but as "we are."
Denial, magical thinking and sayings don't solve problems, correct identification and willingness to solve problems, do.

Speaking of New York beaches, Long Island Sound had a big problem during the 1970s. The water got so bad you couldn't even take a dip in it from a boat, and the beaches got so filthy from what was washing up people all but stopped going, because all they could do was lie in the sun and be food for the biting flies.

Now, the Sound is a much smaller body of water than the Gulf, and it is not totally perfect today, but is a whole lot better because people got together from the many communities along the Sound, on opposite shores no less, and faced up to what was happening and united in a concerted effort to clean it up. And they succeeded to the point where people could once again swim safely in the waters and enjoy the beaches. It took years to do, but they did it.

Granted, they didn't have to deal with oil drilling, but they did handle the other issues such as runoff, dumping and the like. Now, maybe there's not much we can do with the other states on the Gulf, but surely we could have a concerted effort from the southwestern tip of Florida to the Panhandle to do something about runoff, sewage release, dumping and red tide. Maybe people would think twice what they put on their lawns, maybe better methods of flood control put in place, maybe tracking down the medical waste dumpers and putting some teeth into how they are penalized, stuff like that.
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