Florida wary of RNC invasion in 10 days: 'It's squishy and slimy and doesn't smell good.'

[seafan]

Deep-water seaweed drifts ashore to Pinellas beaches

By Andrew Meacham and Peter Jamison, Times Staff Writers
August 17, 2012



Seaweed lines the shore on Clearwater Beach north of Pier 60. The problem in Pinellas stretches as far south as St. Pete Beach. (JIM DAMASKE | Times)

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With the Republican National Convention 10 days out, this is not exactly the first impression we wanted to make. But in recent weeks, beachgoers, fishermen and experts have reported unusually large clusters of seaweed dumped in patches between St. Pete Beach and at least as far north as Clearwater. It's squishy and slimy and doesn't smell good.

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This sargassum is normally found in deep water, swirling between the Yucatan Peninsula and the Florida Straits, Weisberg said. Currents would not normally carry the seaweed across a shallow continental shelf that extends 100 miles offshore.

"It's a rare event," said Weisberg, an expert in the topography of the gulf and its currents. "It takes some other kind of rare event to make it happen."

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Even the Gulf is protesting.



Get ready, Florida. The stench is coming to town.

[No Elephants]

1. Please! No Elephants at DU !

[rpannier]

2. The prostitutes have swarmed in for the event

So that should help the economy

[No Elephants]

3. Spew worthy, yet based on true stories.