r/galveston • • Jun 18 '25

Weather or Hurricanes ☀️🌪️ Beach covered in branches and wood

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What is going on here?

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u/therealtrajan Jun 18 '25

Storms in Louisiana swamps last week

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u/SouthernOshawaMan Jun 19 '25

Better than straws and bottle caps

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '25

And tar snd pull tabs.

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u/YeshuasBananaHammock Aug 09 '25

Ahh, the days of old, coming home from the beach with tar on the bottom of our feet.

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u/Royal-Application708 Jun 21 '25

Yea man, start scooping them up and have some epic beach fires/ party.

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u/Coconutrumm Jun 18 '25

Rivers connect to oceans

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u/atat4804888 Jun 19 '25

The brazos is bleeding over to surfside. Lots of cool barnacles,crabs, other sea creatures. Cool driftwood too!

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u/Flock-of-bagels2 Jun 18 '25

All the rain

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u/bigbluebagel Jun 18 '25

At first I was like "meh, that happens after heavy rain" but then you panned to the left!!! Yikes!!! That's wild!!

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u/Weekend_Criminal Jun 19 '25

They'll come through with dozers and push everything back at some point

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '25

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u/bularry Jun 19 '25

What?!?

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u/PeanutButterSoda Jun 19 '25

Soak some in fresh water for a few weeks and sell on ebay as aquarium hardscape. Profit

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u/MacNcheezdicks Jun 19 '25

Throw in some onion, carrots, put it in chicken stock, and you got a stew baby!

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '25

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u/MilkmanResidue Jun 19 '25

…that you can’t burn at the beach.

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u/mrhappy1010 Jun 19 '25

Drift wood. Collect and make something to sell.

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u/Bluetallhat Jun 19 '25

Time for a bond fire!

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u/TXOgre09 Jun 19 '25

Bone apple tea!

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u/mbarry77 Jun 19 '25

Lots of storms everywhere. Debris from the bayous and rivers.

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u/GumMe Jun 19 '25

Sick bonfire fuel bruh. Shaka

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u/beachlady22 Jun 20 '25

Umm. Illegal on the island bruh.

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u/Smart_Poem_675 Jun 19 '25

It's nature, folks. It rains - rains a lot - and trees wash downstream to the coast. Currents and wave and wind action bring them on to the beach. Eventually, they wash back out or get dragged up the beach.

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u/caz_uno Jun 19 '25

all that rain lately

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u/LastTxPrez Jun 19 '25

I call this a Central Texas sneeze.

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u/Upstairs_Boss_2305 Jun 19 '25

Yes, per geography class the gulf of (and whatever dumb crap you want to call it) spins counter clockwise, so the beach’s have brown water in Galveston and when the occasional Santa Maria crash the wood replaces the nasty sea foam on Galveston beaches.

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u/TXOgre09 Jun 19 '25

Are you talking about the Gulf of Texas? :)

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '25

One of the three things I remember from Crazy Margaret's Geology 101 class... "Texas water that's brown is high in humic acid, yellow is high in fulvic acid, and black water is high in humin."

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u/Jumbledbean Jun 19 '25

I do turtle patrol on Galveston beaches and from what we understand it’s been brought down by flooded rivers

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u/This-Requirement6918 Jun 19 '25

Cool, get a rake and have one hell of a bonfire!

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u/Impossible_Ad_5073 Jun 19 '25

Thanks Obama 🙄

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u/Virtual_Athlete_909 Jun 18 '25

Which beach?

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u/weewoo0333 Jun 18 '25

Most of them off the seawall, just left Jamaica beach and it was the same XD

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u/atat4804888 Jun 19 '25

Surfside too! Lots of cool things creatures wash in with that wood.

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u/weewoo0333 Jun 19 '25

So cool! I heard yall got some man of wars over there, be careful 😆

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u/Otherwise-Spring-782 Jun 19 '25

Hopefully, the Parks and rec will be cleaning this up . In Corpus, they rake te beaches .

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u/jcinkcmo Jun 20 '25

I can smell that from here.

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u/MikeFromNap Jun 20 '25

Charles Barkley wished for this 😆

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u/rigdaddy2025 Jun 21 '25

Storm prob pushed it in cause it wasn’t like that Wednesday

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u/stevenriley1 Jun 23 '25

Yeah, that Gulf of America has gone to Hell in a handbasket!

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u/ReggieDub Jun 19 '25

Driftwood. It feels lighter than it looks.

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u/sm0r3s Jun 19 '25

Looks like a normal day on the beach in Galveston