Looks like debris is washing up around the gulf. I hope that if people find personal stuff, they take it home and try to get it reconnected with its owner (thinking of papers, etc).
http://www.caller.com/news/2008/sep/21/beach_debris/CORPUS CHRISTI — Julie Lashua, 23, frolicked in the Gulf water south of Bob Hall Pier this past weekend with her chocolate Labrador puppies, a stone's throw from a pile of debris. She's one of thousands of people during the last weekend of summer who pressed past more than 100 debris piles staged along the city's more than 8 miles of Gulf beach shoreline.
Front-end loaders have scooped more than 100 tons a day since Sept. 15 that officials suspect is refuse from Hurricane Ike's destruction. "They've done a fairly good job," said Ken Robichaux, 51, who was perched in a fold-up chair at the water's edge about 15 feet from a large junk pile. "We want the trash cleaned up, so most people don't mind the dump truck noise and understand it takes time. I've got my jazz going on," he said as he plugged in his earphones.
Crews with the city's brush pickup, parks and street departments worked Saturday in tandem to load the piles into continuing lines of dump trucks that hauled the messes to the landfill, said Todd Jensen, beach operations supervisor. Cleanup crews have found building walls with in-tact electrical fixtures, kitchen tables, staircases, and hunks of wooden patio and dock decks, Jensen said. The bulk of it was dismembered boards with nails and hardware attached, he said.
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"People could do furniture shopping out here," said park ranger Chelsea Aldrich, 24. Some large objects -- refrigerator doors, telephone poles, large trees -- have made parts of the beach impassable, she said.
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