Ping.
But hurricanes can't be bad. They're natural.
Thats it, lets ban hurricanes.
These tides stink and keep all the pretty ladies away from the beach.
I've been going down to Sanibel Island FL for the last 20 years in the first week of March. This is not a new happening.
Big deal. A "toxic tide" has hit my house every month for about 10 years now. For a week you just 'Stayfree' and Stay Away!
Gee!
I was just thinking "It's been a good weekend. 'Only think that could screw it up would be to get something new to worry about!!. :o)
Not to mention Red Tide STINKS. Hurricanes make the world smell bad. Thanks alot George W. Bush.
There's only one solution: build a seawall on the entire Florida coast to keep the storm water on land; dam off the canals and cap the drainage pipes. The loss of nasty human life and environmentally-unfriendly property is a small price to pay to prevent those horrible, awful red tides in our mother ocean. /sarc
The real problem here in Florida is a marine research community that is not committed to defeating the Red Tide. The marine biologists have a mind set, that tells them that it is the pollution of man that is causing the problem, and because of that, they squander research dollars on locating the red tide, and not finding strategies that will defeat it. The Marine Fisheries Commission, is more interested in catching fishing law violators, who take hundreds of pounds of fish illegally, than stopping the red tide, which kills millions of tons of fish.
Case in point, there is a man in Venice Florida that claims to have an inexpensive cure for red tide infected waters. Without getting into a discussion as to the effectiveness of his treatment, you would think that the State Officials and researchers would have an interest into what he has achieved. No, they are not interested in talking to him, I have spoken to the gentleman personally, and he says that the researchers are not interested because THEY did not come up with the solution. The state officials follow that lead, because they don't know diddly about red tide science issues. The nexus of researchers who study the problem (as opposed to solving the problem) and politicians spewing tax dollars, keeps the marine laboratory funded. I live in Florida, my research indicates that nutrient rich run offs are not the problem. If this were the case, then the red tide blooms would be more severe in the estuaries, where nutrient pollution is heaviest. The red tide would follow the estuary plumes into the Gulf of Mexico. In fact, the estuaries are safe havens for fish from the red tide. The natural filter feeders in the Gulf of Mexico, the large schools of Menhadden fish, have been decimated by over fishing. Without these natural enemies of the K. Blevins algae, the algae bloom and cause toxic conditions.
Government is not about solving problems, Government needs victims, and so, dances around the solution.
Due to global warming ...Bush's fault. Don't even have to listen to the MSM to hear that. Maybe Al Gore can stand on the shore like King Knute and demand the red tides cease.