I read about Panama Cuty Beach this morning at al.com. There was a Facebook story about a girl who got some infection in Destin. And a bunch of Mississippi beaches are closed. I was born and raised in Mississippi and was never allowed to go to the beach there because it was “dirty.” I was a child and was happy traveling to Florida. As a teenager, I was told that the beaches/water there were polluted. It’s been out of my mind until the last week or so of beaches being closed there.
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I was in Florida on Long Boat Key last summer—early July right before the red tide warnings. Just never thought of issues with the flesh eating bacteria.
I would hope health dept. is on top of it and closes beaches, posts warnings, etc.
Mississippi beaches do tend to be dirty, that’s the Mississippi Sound. The current closures there are due to an algae bloom, caused by dumping water from the Mississippi River through the spillway into Lake Pontchartrain. That puts a lot of fresh water and silt much closer to the beaches, than if it had to flow all the way down to Pilot Town.