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We had a real bad one here back in the 1980's.
The beach water looked like red wine.
Your nose and eyes burned from the airborne contaminates.
Dead sea life all down the beach.
Everybody do your part.
Sacrifice lobsters and eat virgins to appease the Fishing Gods.
We don't want that up here!
West End Anglers - You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
We get it here at the beach fairly often in varying degrees of severity. I remember the first time I was exposed to it. We were playing around on the clay cliffs near the old Strake mansion (I think) in LaPorte in 1955 and the red tide (we had no idea what it was) was so bad it really hurt to breathe and our eyes burned like crazy.
We used to have it bad at Surfside in the mid to late 60's. I remember the pain from breathing, we thought it was a chemical release from dow. The algae would get so thick it looked like oily slime on everything.
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