Why does it have a Myrtle Beach button on?
That’s where the sand came from.
The entire thing is weird.
They loaded 15 tons of sand from there.
Sing it Mr Cash.
You Load 16 tons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfp2O9ADwGk
Myrtle Beach is about two hours away and they’re putting a lot of money into promoting it during the convention. The sand is from there. The MB Visitors And Convention Bureau no doubt is funding the thing.
From their point of view, it was a surefire promotion, to score some tourism dollars from this national event and to gain recall and future tourist dollars for their efforts. It is a sand sculpture, beachy.
Somebody is not very good at stepping out of their own shoes and recognizing bad semiotics, though. All sorts of negative associations that blew right past them.
Now, the remnants of Isaac, what a name to get the tongues wagging even more about the Biblical symbolism, are blowing in and washing it away. Isaac, a storm that made landfall seven years to the day from Katrina, laying waste to a sand idol. I can see why people might attribute larger significance to this, it’s really sort of uncanny.
And then there’s the poor sap just trying to promote Myrtle Beach wondering whatt the heck is going on, lol.