Life's a Coast

Florida's Coastal Waters are Florida's Cesspool! First, realize that -- just three of Florida's coastal counties -- Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties are admitted to have at least six sewage pipes that are admitted to flush out at least 400 million gallons of partially treated sewage sludge per day, which for a "visual" is equivalent to over 400 five foot deep football fields of sludge per day, every day, admittedly from only one to three miles offshore (the pipes are over 70 years old, rusting, and are admitted to have "leaks"), at only 100 feet "deep" (or much less where it leaks, like maybe 10 feet deep, 10 yards from shore???), from where the winds, the currents, and the tides just wash it back into the coastal waters and onto the beaches ("watch where you step").

Realize that "solids" in the ocean-dumped sewage sludge are not the major problem (we also get that from humans, dogs, and other critters). The major problem is the pharmaceutical residues, the pathogens, the viruses, the high levels of nitrogen, ammonia, the nutrients, and other toxic sludge contaminants and "runoff" that survive the so-called "waste water treatment"...

Be aware that Broward County is attempting to get around a mandate established by the state of Florida to shut down a sewage pipe that discharges "treated" [sic] sewage into the ocean off of Pompano Beach, irresponsibly blabbering that the cost would be "huge".

But good old Broward county commissioners are aiming for a way around the state mandated requirement — either by a change in the law, or a waiver, or some other sort of who-cares exemption so that it would no longer apply to them.

The public works [sic] director of Broward county blabbered that spending hundreds of millions to pump the water into the Florida aquifer is "not a cost-effective use of taxpayer funds". But, why in the heck would they want to pump sewage into said aquifer, which is their tap water source? That would not seem to be an acceptable solution either... "The Broward County Commission learned last week that it would cost about $800 million to construct such a system. Sewage bills for the pipe's northern Broward County users would more than double, with the average customer's bill rising from $33.09 to $69.48". So, the ritzy ditzy dizzily rich property owners of Broward county can't afford a $35 a month increase in their water bill to stop pumping sewage into the ocean???

Oops, ran out of time, will get back to this nasty subject as soon as feasible... Here is a link to an article on the subject in the interim. Note in the article that some county nitwit was trying to infer that the treated wastewater sludge was clean, that it was "not yellow or green", but note that the picture of the sewage pipe outflow into the ocean is quite BROWN, or some dark color (but, maybe not so "green" or "yellow"); this is indicative of the typical mumbo jumbo smokescreen mirage that the lying hypocrites are projectile vomiting about the supposedly non-existent problem...

The SAND of Florida beaches is more contaminated than the filthy ocean waters! As contaminated as the ocean water can be with toxic carcinogenic chemicals and sewage bacteria, it is admitted that the sand on the beach is even more contaminated with bacteria than the water. Realize that in the process of "beach renourishment" of eroded beaches all of the sand on the local beaches has been pumped onto the beaches from two to three miles offshore, which just happens to be from exactly where -- daily -- hundreds of millions of gallons of sewage (raw, untreated until recently, now "partially treated") is "discharged". This pumping of tainted sand back onto the beaches is done in frequent major beach restoration projects (after the beaches erode away every few years) conducted by the U.S. Corps of Army Engineers. Realize and remember and tell friends and family that the sewage and all of the associated impurities and toxins associated with "wastewater" (pharmaceuticals, pathogens, viruses, nitrogen, ammonia, excess "nutrients", and other toxic sludge contaminants and "runoff" that survive the so-called "[partial] waste water treatment") is pumped out into the ocean, where most of it (some of it is driven back onto the beach by tides and currents) settles onto the sandy bottom as a residue, soaks into the sand for a few years, then they just pump the same sewage and toxin soaked sand (ironically through pipes just like those used to pump the sewage out onto the ocean sand) back onto the increasingly cruddier beach. So, it's a cyclical process, and each time they do this, the "new" restored sand is noticeably darker than whatever prior version of sand was left on the eroded beaches. This all results in visitors being amazed when they discover that most local residents (that are aware of the filthy beach sand and ocean water contamination) do not go to the beach nor swim in the ocean, because most local residents simply prefer to avoid filth and toxins and poisons... Bonus points: they test the ocean waters and when it tests too high for bacteria (the results are reported TWO DAYS LATER) they make people stay out of the water, onto the beach, where the sand is even more contaminated with bacteria than the water; but they never tell anyone about the contaminated beach sand. Beachgoers would be safer in the dirty water than on the filthy beach, especially since they are telling you that the water was over-contaminated two days ago (and might well be less contaminated when they finally actually "close the beaches"). The maniacally unconscionable hypocrisy of it all... Here is a link to one of thousands of reports that confirm this utterly certifiable lunacy.

Sewage Spills into Florida "tap water" supply! Florida's municipal sewage treatment facilities have a network of undersized, aging, rusting, leaking sewer pipes which "break" somewhere almost daily it would seem (probably more if the incidents were all known right away and then reported rather than suppressed) which result in raw sewage "spilling" directly or eventually leaching into fresh water supplies (and water is everywhere in Florida, with the vast confluence of lakes, ponds, rivers, canals, and swamps).

As a result of the breaks and leakages, "boil water" advisories (as in boil the "tap water" piped into homes and buildings) are issued frequently, and in megalopolis areas such as south Florida there always seems to be one or more of these advisories (aka, warnings) always in effect, and they tend to last for days on end. Of course, residents cannot boil the water that comes out of numerous sources such as the showers at the beaches that people use to wash off the contaminated sand and polluted ocean waters from their hair and skin, nor water from hoses used to wash down sidewalks and driveways and cars, nor the water that is used to hydrate lawns and golf courses and vegetation. And do you delude yourself for a second to think that restaurants boil the water they cook with? Tainted water might be boiled in the process of cooking the food that they serve to you, which you will ingest...

In addition to "boil water" advisories, "do not swim" and "do not fish" advisories are also issued when the sewage spills into public waters, but in truth are extremely rare even though the actual events are likely not at all rare.

Note that the advisory warnings of sewage spills -- if they are discovered (many likely are not, at least for a time) or even issued -- are usually buried deep in some lonely section of a printed newspaper, so something like 99.9% of residents are never made aware of any given problem and the general populace ends up drinking, swimming, and fishing in the bacterially and pharmaceutically tainted waters. Yes, "pharmaceutically tainted water", because not only does it get into waste water "naturally" shall we say, but people tend to flush unused pills (along with other noxious, toxic, dangerous substances) down the toilets and drains of the wall to wall mile high condos and resorts of the over-built and under-drained coastal regions. Then too, there are the viruses and such, but we prefer not to get into that...

Further note and remember that, first, when tainted water is boiled, that about the only result that can be construed -- or misconstrued -- as beneficial, is that most of said bacteria is usually killed, but consider what happens when you boil substances such as meat in water, that it does break down and disperse into the water to some extent, but the remnants and residues of it are still there, as are the invisible remnants of the killed bacteria. Additionally, realize that when the differing toxins present in water (nitrates, bromates, chlorites, chloramines, haloacetic acids, trihalomethanes, et al) are boiled, they can synergistically interact and form even more noxious toxins, especially carcinogens. Those carcinogenic substances won't make you sick, but they will eventually induce the onset of cancers and all kinds of diseases.

But, hey, no big deal about spilling a little sewage into the fresh water drinking supply -- heck many Florida cities are are already intentionally pumping (they call it "injecting") millions of gallons of "treated" sewage down into their own Florida drinking water "aquifers" (four thousand square miles of underground "caves" full of water) and even more Florida cities are planning on doing the exact same ludicrous thing, all in order to save money, and of course as a side-benefit to also "replenish" the quickly draining aquifers so that they take longer to "run dry". What, you don't like the idea of them pumping sewage into your drinking water? Hey, they say when they pump it back out of the aquifers it will be just fine, and then they of course will then inject it with toxic chemicals to "cleanse" it and coincidentally just also to happen to generate a barrage of carcinogenic, disease-inducing "DBP's" (Disinfection By Products) which will end up in Florida "tap water".

Tip. You might also be interested in our informative post about tainted Florida water located at this link.

Florida's Waterborne Brain-Eating Amoeba Parasite "nearly always result in the death of the victim"...... If you have never heard of the voracious "brain-eating" amoeba parasite, be very aware we are NOT making this up. If however you have managed to hear about this killer in spite of the unconscionable danger-suppressing media, this is to remind and clarify and emphasize that infestations of these parasites is not treatable and is almost always fatal (we found little info on why the few that do not die, manage to survive...).

In Florida's warm fresh water, springs, soil, sand, or thermally-polluted water resides the microscopic, undetectable "Naegleria fowleri" amoeba that clandestinely enters the body through orifices such as the nasal passages and from there the parasite travels up to the brain where it gorges on the organ tissue, forming a protective cyst around itself and rapidly propagating by the prolific amoebic cell division process, generating an exponentially avalanching horde of organ-eating protozoa...

Also be very aware that this tissue ingesting parasite is also said to attack the spinal cord, causing what might misleadingly mimic a vast range of nerve disorders...

Further, we personally suspect and caution that other complications of tissue destruction of other organs, through entry of the parasite via other bodily orifices, could very well mimic a wide range of complications and disorders.

Lastly, we have heard whispered but unconfirmed grumblings from the local medical grapevine that the preceding conditions and disorders are suspected to be surfacing in greater numbers and are not bothered to be attributed to the actual cause of the suspected parasite (if even known?), leaving speculative smokescreen diagnoses to more "normal" diseases such as cancer, whereby victims are callously dismissed into the consequently ineffective but costly regimens such as the chemo and radiation black holes of the mainstream oncology industry, which of course do not solve the real problem and only enriches the oncology and pharma cartels. Note the reminder that we have also heard speculative "rumors" of the consequences of other burgeoning parasites and acknowledged "super bugs", but avoid those topics for now...

The quotes below can be found at this Wikipedia link.

"Naegleria fowleri (also known as "the brain-eating amoeba") is a free-living excavate form of protist typically found in warm bodies of fresh water, such as ponds, lakes, rivers, and hot springs. It is also found in soil, near warm water discharges of industrial plants, and minimally chlorinated swimming pools, in an amoebae or temporary flagellate stage."

"N. fowleri can invade and attack the human nervous system; although this occurs rarely...such an infection will nearly always result in the death of the victim."

And the informative quotes below along with other helpful info can be found at this Discovery Channel link.

"Treatment: There is no clear treatment for this infection. Although several drugs have proved effective against Naegleria in a laboratory setting, most infections in people are fatal even when treated."

"Prevention: The only way to prevent the infection is to avoid water-related activities, particularly in bodies of warm freshwater, hot springs or thermally-polluted water near power plants (where the amoeba may be more abundant). Otherwise, holding the nose shut or using nose clips during water activities may help prevent this infection. Also, avoid stirring up the sediment while engaging in freshwater activities."

"Infection from the brain eating amoeba can increase during the warm summer months [when Floridians tend to swim in lakes, ponds, springs, and rivers to cool off]."

Our one obvious bottom line is to be wary of "jumping into the lake" to cool off. But we would further suggest that anyone that has done so and begins to exhibit any signs of unusual emotional or mental brain abnormalities -- especially anyone diagnosed with a brain cyst or "tumor" -- be closely examined with the Naegleria fowleri amoeba in mind...

Be sure to check back for our upcoming additions on the other two voracious brain-eating vultures, politicians and the media. OK, we made that up, altho you have to admit that it is true in a way...

Florida's SECRET Tsunami Danger Florida has a coastline. Their coastline is on an ocean. Neighboring Cuba is on the seismically active Enriquillo-plantain fault line (which just happens to connect to the fault zone that caused the recent 2010 earthquake disaster in Haiti). These tectonic plates are actively shifting below the surface of the Caribbean along the fault lines. Some day -- any given day -- the true "big one" is going to hit the Cuban fault line, and the possibility of a resulting tsunami hitting the adjacent Florida beaches in record time must be considered. Little or no time for a warning, and certainly no time to evacuate the thin strips of over-populated beaches which would be struck with deadly walls of water that will likely even topple some of those mile high resorts and condos.

Further, "New studies point to a previously unmapped "blind" fault as the trigger for the catastrophe and found no evidence it had eased more than two centuries of increasing seismic strain along the island's major pressure point". Seismologists have recently admitted that the recent Haiti earthquake "that left Haiti in ruins and killed more than 200,000 people may not have been the "big one" and almost certainly wasn't the last one". Link to an article on that last point.

Important point. The south Florida "Turkey Point" nuclear reactor facility sits on a "point" jutting into the ocean on the very southernmost, eastern tip of the Florida peninsula. Yes, that is in the "bowling alley" direct line of fire for a Caribbean spawned tsunami. Now consider what happened in Japan with their coastal nuclear reactor facilities, said on day two to be in a "somewhat controlled" meltdown and spewing radiation, and the fact that Japan had enough sense to prepare for a tsunami, while Florida officials pooh-pooh the dangers and goes golfing... For emphasis, reports indicate that Japan has "lowballed" and "downplayed" the danger of the leaking radiation and the size of the wind-blown miles-high radiation plumes, so when this occurs in Florida, it is said that evacuation to at least sixty miles away from the direction of the wind is necessary to avoid being "nuked"... Oh, and don't go back to Sofla for a few decades; you know, everything will be "irradiated", and that bad stuff is slow to "decay"...

You might be asking "Why haven't we been warned about any of this"? Because, the Florida tourism and real estate industries simply don't want anyone to know about this very real "clear and present danger" which the state officials also choose to ignore rather than spend any precious money to prepare for and warn of the danger in order to save thousands of lives (as was done in Japan)... As they say on the weather channel, "it could happen tomorrow"; or today... Do you want to be there when it hits? Then avoid Florida, especially destinations on the east coast or the entire southern region of the peninsula...

UPDATE: we have established 'tsunami' and 'earthquake' categories to tag each post about those topics. You can either click on this link to see the list of posts on tsunamis, or you can click on this link to see the list of posts on earthquakes, or from any page on this site you can click on the buttons labelled 'earthquake' or 'tsunami' in the category cloud (the 'buttons' are words underneath "Post Categories") in the right sidebar, to get the same list of descriptive clickable titles of the posts. Note that so far most of the posts about each of these two categories are about both topics, so the lists may be fairly equivalent, although they do already differ to a small extent...

Pests! Like the prior combined "Dangers" category, you can click on the "Florida Pests" tab at the top of the page for our rundown on Florida's prolific pests that include nasty vermin such as sea lice, bedbugs, sand fleas, no-see-ums, cockroaches. and all kinds of crazy ants. NOTE that the "Florida Pests" page is a work in progress and is by no means anywhere near complete at this point in time -- again, so much FloriDIRT, so little time...

January 2011 bedbug update. A recent article (link below) indicated that the number of reported (likely under-reported) cases of bedbugs at Florida accommodations (so, the count did not include cases in people's homes and apartments) more than doubled in the state of Florida in 2010 over those reported in 2009, and that Broward county (Fort Lauderdale: used to be "where the boys are" but now is "where the bugs are") had the highest number of reports of any county in the state. Note that in addition to the count not including cases in personal residences, it did note that bedbug bites are occurring in public places such as theaters, stores, schools, and the nasty little blood suckers even tend to "catch rides" on kids backpacks as a means of spreading increasing their range. Link to article "Where the bedbugs bite".

Beaches! If you have never been to Florida beaches and have only seen the smokescreen mirage of glitzy video commercials or if it has been a few years since you have been here, be aware that the unconscionable tourism-controlled media puppets ignore the truth while they are handsomely paid by the tourism-industry to put out deceptive ads that falsely depict something other than the actually deplorable state of the despoiled, filth laden, pest infested, sewage soaked, bacteria soaked, and toxically contaminated Florida beaches. Click on the "Florida Beaches" tab at the top of the page for a realistic look at what the disgusting beaches actually look like here. The "Florida Beaches" page is still a work in progress, however overloaded it may already be with the reality of how disgustingly filthy the beaches are here...

Seaweed! Up front we will hit you with this widely unknown and even hidden fact: seaweed produces airborne toxins which are harmful to human health.

Now consider that tons of briney seaweed, soaked in now-toxic bacteria-laden ocean waters, wash up on SoFla beaches, sometimes hundreds of TONS per day (one ton = 2,000 pounds). An article (link below, with picture) reported that 30 tons of seaweed washed up on (just) Fort Lauderdale beach on a recent windy day. That may be a high tonnage for one day for one little beach, but even on less problematic days, there is always some yucky seaweed washing up on the already dirty sand.

So what? Well, in times of high tonnage as noted above, the city workers may (or may not) bring out their tractor-pulled "baling machines" and pick some of the bulk of it up, but on lesser problematic days they either just leave it there, or some coastal cities (Hollyweird for example) make futile attempts to cover up seaweed with sand by driving over it several times with tractor-pulled "graders", which simply tend to clump up the seaweed in big piles or just mix dirty, bacteria-laden sand -- along with dogpoop, dead fish, dead jellyfish, other assorted dead animals, rotting excess fruit and food thrown overboard from mammoth cruise ships, anything from bilges dumped by ocean going ships, and beach trash and garbage left behind by an increasing horde of mindless humans -- into the seaweed.

The result, no matter what, is that this now super-filth-infested seaweed is left to bake and rot in the hot sun washed over by foamy, scummy, fetid ocean waters on the already noxious sand, teaming with flies and four inch long cockroaches, and lately we have noticed vultures on the beach feeding on the resultant noxious brew of spoiling "super-carrion".

Link to article "Tons of seaweed wash ashore on [Fort Lauderdale] beach" (be sure to click on the picture, depicting sparse beachgoers crowding in around the dense piles of sickening seaweed).

Here is a link to some videos of the results of raked over seaweed rotting in the heat (especially the third video down), not a pretty sight, and imagine (or don't) the smell emanating from this noxious soup of rotting garbage and toxic decomposing vegetation...

Disclaimer. It wasn't always like this. Realize that the alarming rise in the mountainous amount of seaweed has burgeoned over the decades with the increased, uncontrolled, mindless dumping of "nutrients" [sic] into Florida waters by the greedy Florida business and livestock and agriculture industries, who are allowed to spew excessive nutrients into the Florida environment by Florida politicians who are paid of by state of Florida lobbyists whose salaries are paid with taxpayer monies doled out by the state of Florida with the explicit intentional intent of influencing the Florida politicians to "look the other way"... Of course, destructive algae blooms, "red tide", and "black water" are also the offspring of excessive uncontrolled dumping of nutrients into the Florida environment, not just seaweed. That's just one example of the way it is here in Florida, "let me get mine, screw everything else", pertaining to anything and everything and everybody, tourist, visitor, or resident, and of course the Florida environment never did and never will matter.

Warning. Here is just one of many health repercussions -- ignoring other repercussions for now -- related to the increasingly large tonnage of seaweed washing up on SoFla beaches, a real-life repercussion which you will not be advised of by the tourism-controlled health organizations nor the corporate-owned media.

First, be aware that seaweed is an algae. From Wickepedia "Seaweed is a loose, colloquial term encompassing macroscopic, multicellular, benthic marine algae". Next realize that the toxic off-gassing algae blooms referred to as "red tide" and "black water" are then a more noxious form of seaweed, admitted to be harmful to the human respiratory system when simply breathed in, and likely worse effects are ignored and not reported...

Conversely, seaweed is a less noxious form of the more toxic algae blooms, but seaweed is noxious to some indeterminate extent. You can smell it, even when it is offshore, but especially after it washes up on the beach, and even more so as it begins to decompose in the hot sun.

Having lived in Florida for decades, we have observed that some people are more susceptible to the "adverse effects" of seaweed off-gassing than others, and whereas many do not seem to suffer immediately, openly, or even knowingly -- because there might well be minimally delayed effects not attributed to the real cause, or long term adverse effects such as asthma, COPD, or lung cancer -- some insist that they know that they are adversely affected immediately, real-time with symptoms such as coughing and headaches... Of course, the beach refuse, the toxic sand, and the bacterialized waters likely all contribute to such maladies, so it is difficult to determine how deleterious the seaweed is on it's own, since "science" tends to ignore the problem...

All a part of going to SoFla beaches. Gas mask anyone? You probably ought to have a gas mask anyway because of those overweight beachgoers picnicking upwind of you anyway...

Pollution, Part One. Florida's air and water are polluted with radiation and poisonous heavy metals from centuries of phosphate strip-mining... Floridians and tourists are exposed to radiation and poisonous heavy metals from "phosphogypsum stacks" even if they aren't anywhere near them. Not something that the Florida tourism or real estate industries want you to know, but tell everyone you know for their well being.

But, Florida's phosphate strip-mining industry -- the largest in the world -- quietly generates immense volumes of "phosphogypsum" (a radioactive toxic heavy-metal sludge classified as hazardous waste) a by-product (for every ton of phosphate produced, five tons of phosphogypsum is generated), which is then stored in huge open exposed towering piles innocently called "stacks" that cover (only) hundreds of acres in Florida. This industry is said to generate thirty two million tons of this poisonous radioactive heavy-metal-containing phosphogypsum waste each year. The current Florida stockpile of phosphogypsum waste stacks is said to be (only?) one billion metric tons. But, realize that this mining has been ongoing since the late 1800's, and at tens of thousands of tons of phosphogypsum byproduct waste generated each and every year, so it is logical to ask why is there only "hundreds of acres" of it stacked up. The reason for this is that the sun, the burning heat, the torrential rains, and the tropical winds "dissipate" the open, exposed, towering, toxic, poisonous, radioactive mountains of "ash dust" into the Florida air and waters...

So, what's the big deal if Florida mines phosphate and the poisonous byproduct waste disperses into the air and water? The mined phosphate contains concentrations of naturally occurring radioactive elements referred to as "radionuclides", along with arsenic, lead, cadmium, chromium, fluoride, zinc, antimony, and copper (all toxic and poisonous in their own right). The concentrations of uranium and radium-226 in phosphogypsum samples are said to be ten times the levels in normal soil for uranium and sixty times the levels in soil for radium-226. Note that the concentration of radium-226 in phosphogypsum is said to vary widely and consequently can be significantly higher than admitted, and we would wager that it is higher...

So, what's the big deal if a billion tons of radioactive waste contaminated with poisonous heavy metals is stacked up in hundreds of acres of towering, unprotected piles? Let's see, Florida is the "windy state". So, wind-blown radionuclide dust (uranium and radium-226) -- along with the phalanx of toxic heavy metals -- becomes airborne. Once the radionuclide dust is airborne, people can breathe the dust and the dust can settle out onto ponds and agricultural areas. Radon-222, a decay product of radium-226, is a gas and so may also become airborne by simply diffusing into the air.

In addition to radiation health hazards, phosphogypsum contains the aforementioned heavy metals in concentrations that pose a chemical hazard to humans. Analysis of samples from various facilities were found to contain arsenic, lead, cadmium, chromium, fluoride, zinc, antimony, and copper at concentrations that pose significant health risks to humans. The concentrations of these contaminants vary by more than three orders of magnitude among samples taken from various locations of the byproduct waste. These metals, sitting around in towering exposed piles, pelted by tropical monsoonal torrential downpours, are of course leached from the phosphogypsum stacks and migrate into nearby surface and groundwater resources, not to mention the air we breathe...

The Florida phosphate mining industry is hoping to find a way to get rid of their phosphogypsum stacks, so we soon expect the FDA to allow this poisonous effluent to be added to the usual dumping grounds for toxins, like vaccines, toothpaste, and even processed foods as an "additive"... Heck, they might as well add more of it to the water, like the other industrial wastes fluoride (flu-oride) and chlorine, since it is already leaching into the Florida aquifers. There are too many old people in Florida living off of the money they paid into social security anyway (which the politicians long ago pilfered), might as well pump them full of more poisons to get rid of them sooner, make more room for more illegals and foreigners.

Link to video showing the "RADIOACTIVE FLORIDA MOUNTAIN"... (only one of many).

Pollution, Part Two. We have previously touched upon an infinitesimal portion of Florida's pollution in relation to their monumentally vast expanses of contaminated waters, but here we combine just one example of the combination of both pollution and waters, and not just that of the ocean waters, but one of way too many tributaries which dump into those ocean waters and flow along the sandy shorelines, where bathers and swimmers don't know any better, dare to immerse their largest and most absorbent organ -- their skin -- into those toxically poisoned waters. Bonus point: the toxic effluent also rolls on up into the intracoastal waterways where local residents catch fish and take them home to eat (sound of medical cash registers going KA-CHING).

The Miami Herald has published a front page headline article entitled "Costly Sins of the Past" [sic] (sic, because it is still happening), link below. If you don't bother to click on the link to read the article, you might want to peruse the following quotes from it.

"The waterway...is so polluted it's sediments have to be transported out of state". This in a state where they allow miles and miles of "mountains" of poisonous heavy metal contaminated radioactive mining waste to lay exposed to the hot sun and air, to be evaporated into that same air that they breathe, so imagine how badly poisonous this tainted "sediment" is that they are required to dump it in someone else's "backyard"...

"Solid and industrial wastes...have produced dioxins now embedded in the mud. They [the sediments] are so toxic they must be sealed in leak-proof containers before being shipped [again, out of state]".

"...the poisons [in the sediment/mud] are six times more than the level allowed at any dump site in Florida".

"The poisonous sediment is as thick as 10 feet...".

"It's the most polluted waterway in the state of Florida [or anywhere?]. The medical waste dates back to the 1970's".

"A hazy film is clearly visible on the water's surface".

An area resident stated: "This is the dirtiest place I've ever lived, and I've lived in New York [city?]. I've seen plenty of dead raccoons, big fish, even cats and dogs". Of course, what most of the brainwashed residents don't seem to comprehend is that they are also diseased and dying just like the animals, it's just that the local mainstream med practice-ioners "diagnose" it all with statements like "Oh, you just got cancer [Parkinson's, etc...] because the Good Lord willed it to test your faith".

All this in the Miami River, which flows through downtown Miami, out into Biscayne Bay, picked up by northward flowing currents to drift into the intracoastal waterways, along South Beach ocean waters, and on up the coastal beaches of Florida's east coast. Anyone swimming in those waters might do well to coat themselves with admittedly toxic "sunscreen" to keep their skin from absorbing the considerably more poisonous ocean waters.

Bottom line point. If you don't read the article at the link below, commit this factoid to memory. While the article inferred that the hazardous waste had to be sealed and hauled out of state, it also noted that the state doesn't actually have the money to clean up the river, so the poisonous 10 foot thick layer of contaminated muck still lays at the bottom of the river, continually dispersing out into the (river, intracoastal, and ocean) waters, sickening and killing animals and (secretly) people. Oh well, that boosts the economy through the medical community and depopulates an already overpopulated region, remediating the global warming problem in the process, slowing down the rising sea levels that are eventually going to flood Miami anyway.

Downtown Miami River is Florida's "most contaminated waterway".

Giant Gambian Super Rats! Unfortunately, we are NOT making this up. As if Florida did not have enough human rats along with the regular-sized normal Florida rats (and those are everywhere), yet another foreign, non-native, exotic species of dangerous verminous rat has been set free in the pestilent experimental Petri dish guinea pig sanctuary that is Florida. The "Gambian pouch rat", often prefixed with the word "giant" (giant for a rat) actually "only" grows to the size of a raccoon, but that is plenty big, bigger than we want rats to be. The average-sized Gambian super rat weighs around five pounds, but many reach ten pounds or more, so far in the sparse Florida keys, but who knows how large they will get when they reach those yummy Florida restaurants farther north. Some will say, hey what the heck, that these disease ridden vermin are only in the Florida keys and that the keys are islands surrounded by water, so they are no threat; to this we replay that it is said that these rats not only are good swimmers but that they have been observed catching a breeze on a piece of wood using their pouches and sailing along from island to island (ok, we made that last part up, just for laughs). But, seriously the islands of the keys are connected to the Florida peninsula by the "overseas highway" and those rats can catch a ride on any of the numerous daily transport vehicles (including commercial food trucks) and therefore it is only a matter of time before these giant rats show up amongst the human rats of Miami and their smaller cousins, moving to points north up the coastline. Realize that humans have a very good reason to be concerned about any kind of rats; such as, they wallow in filth, carry numerous diseases, and love to hang out in Florida keys restaurants. This super rat is yet another threat to Florida's fragile ecosystem and human life, because these so-called Gambian pouch rats are known to eat anything, including bird eggs, snails, crabs, seeds, and endangered plant life. The monster rats have no natural enemies, and even the hordes of Florida feral cats won't attack them. As with other exotic species, nothing is being done to eradicate the monster rat, heck there's only a bunch of them in the keys, so not to worry, maybe some of the other mainland exotic species, like the Nile monitor lizards or huge burmese pythons will find them tasty, so let's just take the usual Floriduh "wait and see" approach like with everything else... We did NOT make this up; just because you have not seen it on the tourism industry controlled evening news only means that it is effectively being suppressed -- like so much else bad news about Floridia -- but even Florida state websites are quietly tracking the progress of these new super "mickey rats"... Here is a link to some weird info ("rats just love humans") and a picture of the "dog sized rat".

Vermin Rat Hordes! Not only do they have super-sized dog-fighting rats in Florida, but the normal-sized rats are abundant everywhere, especially in the southern part of the state where the warm weather and ready food sources are conducive to their burgeoning hordes. They are everywhere, especially in the walls of homes as well as running loose in the dune grasses of the beach, snarfing up trash left behind by litterbug residents.

Even in the upscale elitist kingdom of Coral Gables, known for "wide-lawns and narrow-minds". Dave Barry just moved into a new rat infested home in the Gables and wrote an article about the experience, so we thought we would go for a humorous take on the rat-ified problem in Florida

Link to "Did somebody smell a rat?". Hint: there are two "pages" to Dave's article, so you have to click on "full story" or page two...

Sea Lice! Sea lice are a prolific south Florida "pest" and not a lot of visitors or even residents are aware of them. Consequently, victims might easily mistake the adverse effects of sea lice for something other than what it really is... These nasty little (nearly microscopic and virtually invisible) critters are floating around in the lower Atlantic coastal waters of Florida. Sea lice create an itchy red rash on areas of the body. These invisible and unpublicized pests attach to areas with human hair (not just on the head), and easily become trapped inside bathing suits. Contact activates the stinging mechanism of the sea lice. The stinging mechanisms are called nematocysts and are just like those of a jellyfish. The result is that an itchy red rash develops, usually hours later and therefore "of unknown origin", and the rash can last for several weeks, so people can easily mistake the symptoms for other maladies. Many people infected with sea lice develop a fever and feel unwell or just feel tired (here again, unbeknownst as to the cause, that sunburned hangover feeling can actually be attributed to sea lice). Point, if you have been in toxically contaminated SoFla waters and develop this condition (or worse...) don't just automatically go to a doctor or dermatologist. Note that Children are more likely to develop more severe systemic effects like high fever, nausea, abdominal pain, and diarrhea. Have a nice day at the beach...

Head Lice! An article in the Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel news (link below) indicates that lice have become resistant to over the counter remedies and Florida is looking at a possible "full scale epidemic" of head lice (sounds like it already is an epidemic), to go along with their sea lice and their sincerely monumental bed bug infestation (see below for bed bugs info). Come to Florida and get loused and bugged (and bitten, and mugged, and robbed, and beat up, and killed in any of numerous ways)...

Link to article Florida is a breeding ground for head lice.

Link to a site for a company that calls itself "Louse Calls", a de-louser that makes house calls Florida's Head Lice Removal Experts.
Go Back to Index

Scabies! If you have never heard of scabies, you are lucky. Scabies is a highly infectious disease of the skin caused by nearly invisible parasitic mites that burrow into the skin, lay eggs, and produce new crops of more little buggers every three or four days. The result is burning and itching "scabs" in sensitive areas, and the scabies mites, like bed bugs and lice, are very difficult to eradicate, requiring (immune system diminishing) prescription pharmaceuticals to do so.

The multitudes of elderly people are typically more vulnerable to contract scabies, but anyone with a diminished immune system (and that's a lot of people these days) is also vulnerable. And, Florida is full of the retired elderly, and there are also plenty of diminished immune systems amongst Florida's non-elderly due to the poisoned water, air, and over-consumption of pharmaceutical drugs handed out at Florida "pill mills" like candy..

Scabies - a common infestation among south Florida's elderly [and Immuno-suppresed] (note that you can be immunosuppressed and not be aware of it).

Florida Sand Flea. There seems to be a lot of confusion on the internet as to what a Florida sand flea is and what they look like, with even locals providing differing perspectives. The no-see-um is NOT a sand flea, nor is the above noted "beach roach" to be confused with the sand flea. The voracious bloodsucking sand flea actually looks like the common flea but is somewhat larger and considerably more vicious. The sand flea renders numerous horrendous "bites" that are more irritating and last longer than mosquitoes, even the new invasive Asian tiger mosquito (altho the latter is more deadly since it carries fatal diseases like dengue fever and encephalitis). Here is a link to a not-so-pretty picture of Florida sand flea bites and here is a link to a picture of an actual Florida sand flea, not that you will ever see the nasty little critters...

Bed Bugs. Bed bugs are also a prolific and extremely problematic pest in South Florida tourist accommodations and we therefore give them their own separate warning. Many visitors are unaware of bed bugs in SoFla, and initially assume that bed bug bites are from mosquitoes and no-see-ums, and unconsciously end up taking an infestation of bed bugs home with them in their suitcase. Realize that eradicating bed bugs is not as easy as washing the sheets, as some accommodations here have to "tent" their building and have it fumigated. That is the other side of the problem -- if your SoFla accommodation does not have bed bugs, there is a good chance that all surfaces are coated with residue of highly toxic insecticides used to eradicate them (that is actually the case regardless, to keep down flying palmetto bugs and cockroaches which are also very prolific in this "always on" pestilent swamp. If for some reason you have to go to SoFla check out this link for tips for avoiding bed bug bites while visiting Florida. And, below is a video of a front page article in the local Fort Lauderdale newspaper on the bed bug problem in Florida accommodations, and here is the link to the online article depicted in the video, but they will likely be forced to eradicate the article when the tourism industry gets wind of it (as predicted, it soon disappeared, so we replaced it with a similar but not nearly as correct article...).