All of these beaches listed here, but Corpus Christie are in the direct path of the Trinity river which is where waste waster effluent leaves the DFW area. This shouldn’t be a surprise knowing that, and it has certainly been brought up in the past that that might be a problem
I mean, technically, it's just the Gulf of Mexico.
Honestly you'd figure all the crude oil floating around and other platform run off and leakage would kill the bacteria. Like two negatives make a positive
When I was a kid (circa mid 2000s) Galveston beach was mid as fuck, but a fun enough time. Water was never clear, but it didn’t feel unsafe.
Now in the last 5 years or so, Galveston beach is genuinely disgusting. If you visit you want to do the dry stuff like restaurants and Keema boardwalk. The most you want to do with the beach is glance at it and wince.
Yeah fuck the headline, but I do not change headlines when posting. The original headline (and the one displayed on google news) just had the amount in the headline…Absolutely hate when outlets change headlines
Still a news headline, some people may find this interesting. It’s not my job to discern what is and isn’t interesting, just to post here for my fellow Texans
“Abbott’s buoys are like a trap set for migrants,” she said. “This is a terrorizing situation. You don’t stop migration by setting death traps….You treat humans like human beings, not like animals.”
Swim up to the buoys, decide not to risk it and instead swim back to shore, but now your legs are entangled in the razor wire (oh, excuse me “sharp metal strips” according to the article) you didn’t see under the water.
Imagine the nightmare of trying to dive under the buoys and getting your head and arms entangled in the razor wire.
What a horrible and cruel way to die. It’s like something a Guantanamo Bay torturer would come up with as a “deterrent.”
Abbott said the goal was to stop migrants from considering crossing the river. He has defended the hazard the buoys might pose by noting that migrants don’t risk drowning if they only cross at official points of entry.
Good. There’s a reason that almost all sport is separated into men’s and woman’s leagues. Men have a massive physical advantage over women in a lot of sports and it is fundamentally unfair for women to have to compete with men.
Some train their whole life only to have a major victory denied because a man decided to compete in a woman’s category.
If they can’t/won’t compete with other men then trans people should have their own league.
A big thing people complain about is this “issue” is a just a straw man constructed by typically conservative leaders. It says in the article that there are no known openly transgender people competing in collegiate athletics.
Until there is and many non-trans women are hurt because of it. Being proactive is smart in this case… it’s happened elsewhere and thank god, Abbott spent 30m to get this bill prioritized. Simple legislation that got drawn up in a matter of days, swiftly voted on, then across his desk.
This is nothing about hate, it’s about god damn common sense. Men are stronger, faster, and more agile than women… period. End of story.
Would you rather there not be any separation? I’d be fine with that since Title 9 is a joke.
It’s Texas, I guarantee they don’t give two shits about getting that out. At some point, this fact must have come across Gimp Abbott’s desk, and he threw it in the trash.
This is horrible. Agreed on removing traps that can kill persons. But I would like to know how these buoys are a death trap. No mention on the article either. Any thoughts on how?
The article isn’t clear. “On or near the buoy” could mean a lot of things - clinging to a buoy or floating next to one, at the very least.
“Razor wire and drowning devices” is also mentioned specifically but without any details. Buoys that are linked together with razor wire? Seems pretty on-brand for Abbot, to be honest. “Getting entangled in the barrier” seems to support this.
They are floating balls that are covered in loops of razorwire, which hangs down underneath the bouy. They’re clearly designed to snare people who try to swim under them, which could result in drowning, bleeding to death, or even dying of hypothermia if trapped there for too long. The Rio Grande is not warm at night.
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