Boating; Screw U, Sanibel & Ft Myers Beach
WTF is up with all the boohooing about wild fires and Super storm Sandy and boardwalk fires and Colorado floods? Nobody mentions the Southwest Florida's disaster. One fly-over by Governor Scott-Free/w/da money is all we get. Listen up people and I'll tell you a real tale of woe!
The Sanibel and Fort Myers beaches have tea brown water lapping at the shores. Tourists are vacating like 'Cane was coming and the fish are dying on the beaches. Why, because in the middle of our state there is a cesspool of pollution known as Lake Okeechobee where fish don't even spawn anymore.
This disaster didn't happen overnight. The dairy farmers to it's North allowed Cow poop (phosphates) to wash downstream into the lake. The Corps of Engineers built a Dike around the whole lake to prevent another over-wash during a 'Cane like back in 1926 when thousands ppls were drowned. (A lot more if you count the black farm workers which they didn't in '26)
Also to blame are the sugar growers to the south of Lake O, in conjunction with Miami and Ft Lauderdale cities (who steal all the fresh water from the 'glades) through open canals.
Now the sugar growers agreed to sell millions of acres to the state and federal government but the deadline passed and Governor Scott-Free/w/da money and the corrupt legislature killed the deal. No new taxes even tho the money was already there.
Then the rain came and the lake got too full. No where for it to go? Aha, lets let it out and down the Calloosahatchee river and eventually into the Gulf of Mexico. Nobody will care except the tourists and the biz ppl and the environmentalists, right? You've never seen a coalition like this one but nobody else cares. We are a pimple on the ass of Florida compared to the East Coast cities, so suck it up, Sanibel. The dry season is coming in a month or two. Oh by the way, your condo just lost 20% value!
Boatguy Ed (boatguiEd@aol.com) is the manufacturer of the worlds BEST anti-fouling bottom paint,www.supershipbottom.com. TWEET me @boatguyed and a corresponding web site is http://www.boatingbyboatguyed.com/ ........ NEVER, EVER TRY TO BUY HIM A DRINK!
The Sanibel and Fort Myers beaches have tea brown water lapping at the shores. Tourists are vacating like 'Cane was coming and the fish are dying on the beaches. Why, because in the middle of our state there is a cesspool of pollution known as Lake Okeechobee where fish don't even spawn anymore.
This disaster didn't happen overnight. The dairy farmers to it's North allowed Cow poop (phosphates) to wash downstream into the lake. The Corps of Engineers built a Dike around the whole lake to prevent another over-wash during a 'Cane like back in 1926 when thousands ppls were drowned. (A lot more if you count the black farm workers which they didn't in '26)
Also to blame are the sugar growers to the south of Lake O, in conjunction with Miami and Ft Lauderdale cities (who steal all the fresh water from the 'glades) through open canals.
Now the sugar growers agreed to sell millions of acres to the state and federal government but the deadline passed and Governor Scott-Free/w/da money and the corrupt legislature killed the deal. No new taxes even tho the money was already there.
Then the rain came and the lake got too full. No where for it to go? Aha, lets let it out and down the Calloosahatchee river and eventually into the Gulf of Mexico. Nobody will care except the tourists and the biz ppl and the environmentalists, right? You've never seen a coalition like this one but nobody else cares. We are a pimple on the ass of Florida compared to the East Coast cities, so suck it up, Sanibel. The dry season is coming in a month or two. Oh by the way, your condo just lost 20% value!
Boatguy Ed (boatguiEd@aol.com) is the manufacturer of the worlds BEST anti-fouling bottom paint,www.supershipbottom.com. TWEET me @boatguyed and a corresponding web site is http://www.boatingbyboatguyed.com/ ........ NEVER, EVER TRY TO BUY HIM A DRINK!
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