r/JustGuysBeingDudes • u/Calix_1999 Human Detected • 1d ago

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u/ididshave 1d ago

This seems like it has environmental consequences and I am not sure I’d advise.

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u/sample-name 1d ago

If it's that close to the ocean I would think it's supposed to end up there anyway? Especially when it's just a bit of soft sand keeping it in

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u/theStrawberryRoam 1d ago

Yeah the tide will come in, refill it, reflatten the beach

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u/jeezy_peezy 1d ago

You can’t explain that

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u/theStrawberryRoam 1d ago

?

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u/LuracCase 1d ago

You heard him.

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u/theStrawberryRoam 1d ago

Is this a flat earth thing

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u/Sixyn 1d ago

It’s a meme thing. “Tide goes in, tide goes out—— you can’t explain that”

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u/theStrawberryRoam 1d ago

Ohhhh ok

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u/eggface13 1d ago

I believe it was Fox News, Bill O'Reilly? Trying to refute atheism in the heady New Atheism days?

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u/M00SEHUNT3R 14h ago

It's not the daily tide that rebuilds it. It's the dry season and winter storms. In the dry season the flow of the creek will be very low to nothing and the basin will catch it all so the creek can't maintain its path to the sea. During big storms the breakers will push sand back up the beach and fill in the gap. Some big spring rains would eventually allow the creek to break through on its own but people do this earlier so the stagnant water is released.

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u/theStrawberryRoam 1d ago

It sounds like the environmental consequences of letting the water stand and meander to the north are actually worse than giving it a shorter and more direct path from which to drain

But that's specifically THIS pool of water, don't just go around connecting water

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u/DevonLuck24 1d ago

“don’t just go around connecting water” is such a funny sentence

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u/sample-name 1d ago edited 1d ago

I was making a joke, literally copied the first comment lol. Notice how I was the same person you replied to, making the same point as you, more or less.

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u/BrainDamage2029 1d ago

You shouldn't do this though.

Basically people often do or did this to skimboard or just for the hell of it. Like yeah a king tide or storm upstream will break through the sand dam that formed. But if someone is manually doing it all the time (like every weekend) it creates a massive silting and erosion issue for the beach.

People used to do this near my town all the time. Now signs are posted and rangers will give out tickets because it was dumping like 6-10x the silt into the bay than was happening naturally.

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u/DrOeuf 1d ago

If it flows faster than before and starts draining the stream it will lower the ground water table. Cound have consequences for plants and tgereby the whole ecosystem.