by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
As Ron DeSantis has been busy hopping around the United States and Europe on flights that are "not taxpayer-funded" and whose actual funders he will not disclose, and as Ron busies himself cleansing libraries, micromanaging the public schools, monitoring student bathrooms, and waging all-out war against well known evil-doers like Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, his state of Florida has been bracing for something even more dangerous than a photo of Michelangelo's statue of "David," butt-naked.
And it's finally arrived.
Actually the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt began hitting the coast of Florida in early April and continues to pile up along the state's beaches. It is more-or-less an annual occurrence, but this year's giant seaweed blob came earlier and is larger than in most past years.
Satellite images show the mass of unanchored seaweed floating in a patch more that five thousand miles in length and stretching from the coast of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico almost all the way back to East Africa. Estimates of it's weight vary upward from 10 million pounds.
The enormous mass of floating seaweed does offer sanctuary and food for various species of marine life, but it also has its downside. For one thing the normal odor of rotting eggs gets even worse and turns to a smell like ammonia when the seaweed comes ashore and begins to rot, and the smell can be harmful to humans.. And beaches buried under tons of stinking, rotting seaweed do not attract tourists.
Seaweed alone might not be enough to kill Florida's tourist economy, but beaches covered with rotting seaweed along with a governor in full battle mode against health care, schools, libraries, diversity, and Disney - and who is constantly missing as he hops around the country and the globe conducting a shadow campaign for the presidency, just might.
This could be a very good year to take that Florida vacation elsewhere!
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