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Thick blankets of smelly sargassum seaweed are currently washing ashore on Palm Beach County beaches. Tourists and locals can barely tolerate the stench, choosing to stay away from the beach areas.
Poor Rump. Those Antifa criminals are everywhere!!
greatauntoftriplets
(179,565 posts)tavernier
(14,573 posts)to dump the weeds on his beach.
Will they never stop the madness???
greatauntoftriplets
(179,565 posts)It's good trouble.
rzemanfl
(31,501 posts)lame54
(40,420 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(179,565 posts)maxrandb
(17,553 posts)Saw someone dressed like a frog with an "I Am Amphibfa" t-shirt at the reflecting pool.
I am still laughing
greatauntoftriplets
(179,565 posts)Blue Owl
(60,065 posts)😂🙌🏼‼️
Goonch
(5,942 posts)
the_liberal_grandpa
(337 posts)La Urraca
(20 posts)😂‼️🙌🏼‼️
calimary
(91,435 posts)BEST comment - and thats quite an accomplishment when this Trump disaster just dishes em out with shovels.
No. Not shovels. Earth-movers. Maybe with truckloads of dynamite.
Ocelot II
(131,798 posts)Mysterian
(6,731 posts)Kid Berwyn
(25,475 posts)Fighting fascist flora and fauna for fucking too long.
surfered
(15,034 posts)malaise
(299,552 posts)in the Caribbean as well. Sometimes we just cant go in the water
LeftInTX
(34,953 posts)
Pinback
(13,714 posts)or Rick Warren (or whoever the current leading messianic televangelist grifter is). This all has to be some kind of divine signal, right?
progressoid
(53,562 posts)From 2008
https://archive.thinkprogress.org/hagee-says-hurricane-katrina-struck-new-orleans-because-it-was-planning-a-sinful-homosexual-rally-55b392a04322/
Pinback
(13,714 posts)its the Lord testing their faith or some such bullshit. Anything but a scientific explanation.
progressoid
(53,562 posts)It's best not to question it too much. Just put your donation in the plate.
FakeNoose
(42,988 posts)There's no political agenda, this stuff happens courtesy of Mother Nature.
MustLoveBeagles
(18,296 posts)I just love the timing 😜
yellow dahlia
(6,888 posts)Totally Tunsie
(12,231 posts)Chump better drain the ocean and call in his pool guy to lay a new lining! Damn vandals. They're why chump can't have nice things.
OMGWTF
(5,279 posts)RockCreek
(1,631 posts)Initech
(109,618 posts)It's understandable that it follows you everywhere!
calimary
(91,435 posts)Or maybe what happens after serving a stewpot full of beans.
Initech
(109,618 posts)peppertree
(23,577 posts)It's good for distracting from Cheeto's own stench.
Wonder Why
(7,370 posts)eppur_se_muova
(42,907 posts)A number of people, a horse, and a number of wild boars have died or been hospitalized in a part of France where huge blooms of seaweed had washed ashore and begun to rot. The Guardian published a very extensive, in-depth article on the situation: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/may/12/i-couldnt-breathe-the-sinister-spread-of-frances-killer-seaweed
Lots more articles online: https://www.google.com/search?q=hydrogen+sulfide+from+rotting+seaweed+claims+lives&udm=14
Above concentrations of 50ppm*, H2S has a way of "numbing" the sense of smell, which makes it possible for people to fail to notice how intense the smell is, after an initial exposure. H2S has an offensive, rotten egg smell (rotting eggs produce H2S) which is detectable at very low, non-hazardous levels (as low as 0.05 ppm*), but after a while, it just isn't repulsive enough to keep people away, and they can breathe in a substantial dose without being aware of it, until they wake up in the ambulance or hospital -- IF they're lucky.
* marks info from the Guardian article, which is very informative, but which can't be copied !! Please see the article https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/may/12/i-couldnt-breathe-the-sinister-spread-of-frances-killer-seaweed
calimary
(91,435 posts)Very long but also very chilling! Efforts are being made to get a handle on the seaweed problem and understand how it actually can kill. And how urgently AND intensely it has to be confronted.
I guess its one of those better the devil you know things
eppur_se_muova
(42,907 posts)Apparently, there were warning signs due to wild animal deaths but people didn't investigate them thoroughly enough.
tavernier
(14,573 posts)Our high school football team trains on their field, which is right next to the ocean. I will show this article to the principal so he is aware of the dangers.