Freak foam storm swamps seaside resort

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by Andrew Gregory, Daily Mirror 30/12/2011



IT looks like a carwash gone out of control – and the truth really has got locals in a lather.

Drivers and walkers heading along the promenade at a popular Lancashire tourist spot were swamped by thick, dirty foam yesterday.

The oily bubbles were blown ashore after 90mph winds battered the resort of Cleveleys, near Blackpool.

In places the freak foam was almost 3ft deep, trapping residents in their homes and stranding drivers.



Read more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-world/2011/12/30/freak-foam-storm-swamps-seaside-resort-of-cleveleys-115875-23667046/

[Gore1FL]

1. This is why we need regulation n/t

[freshwest]

4. +1,000

[rocktivity]

2. Oh, this ISN'T a Rick Santorum thread!

rocktivity

[Marnie]

5. There is a good chance that that foam in large part is whipped fecal protein wastes.

So it probably is MOD Santorumesque

[fasttense]

3. Oily Bubbles?

"Resident Gorden Stanley said: “The situation with the foam is horrendous, normally it happens once every few years but it has been like this three times this year.

"It is oil based so it is terrible for your car and stains your clothes and windows, people don’t like to go out of the house in it.

“It’s not just the promenade, it gets blown inland so bungalows at the back of my house are totally covered too. If this is detergent in the water caused by industry or by shipping, it needs to be investigated, it shouldn’t be happening as often as this.”"

[FredStembottom]

6. It take the paint off yer car...

...and wrecks the windshield, too
I dunno how the people stand it
but I guess they do.

Village of the Sun
F. Zappa

[saras]

7. I know EXACTLY what Zappa is talking about, even if he isn't...

When I was a kid, my parents had friends in a town with a big smelly pulp mill. This road near the mill was also near the water and hence considered "nice". EXCEPT - if they left their car outside the garage, the smelly stuff from the mill would take the paint off the car AND etch the windshield. And people lived with it, and joked about "the smell of money." Everyone along the street had a nice car, and a nice garage, and a big piece of land behind the house, right on the water, that was unused and mostly neglected except for cursory mowing.

[FredStembottom]

8. I visited a friends home town not too long ago.....

... in Wisconsin that has a paper pulp plant. The smell was unbelievably foul!
There's a small river that runs through town (most people's back yards) and he said they used to have foam "attacks". Big, brown oily foam blobs clogging the river.

So... i see what you mean!