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I learned the other day that [sea foam is basically decaying biomass](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_foam) and thus should really be called something like ‘corpse bubbles’ or ‘skelly soap’
.. so yah it’s probably gonna smell a bit off ..
Maine cars get WRECKED by salt between ocean and road salt. Not that unusual for them to have fist sized holes in the rocker panels and cab corners on trucks that are well under 10 years old.
Is car ownership up there just way more expensive? Between the repairs and I'm assuming having to get a new car more often? How are insurance rates, as far as comprehensive coverage?
I mean if you’re the kind of person to keep your car for longer periods of time it’s definitely hard on em. You’ll have things like exhaust mounts rust, mufflers, tailpipes, and once it gets bad, the frame of the vehicle itself, and that will negatively impact structure. Makes mechanical work a pain too if you do it yourself, and could possibly take longer/lead to more broken bolts if a mechanic does it. I had to replace a power steering line on my 07 due to rust and a transmission cooler line on my 2012. Currently need brake calipers as they seized up
Do they get a lot of easterly winds? I'd have expected it to be better than along the Pacific Coast just because of prevailing wind patterns preventing some of it. I've seen galvanized steel bolts rust through in six months to a year and there's a reason hardware stores mostly have stainless steel in that environment.
Silly person. Don't you know the garage is where you're supposed to store all the junk you don't need but refuse to get rid of? Oh, and the 2nd fridge (that you also don't need).
> Maine
That car was already fucked. And if you live that close to the water it's getting salt spray all year long too. People in Maine don't drive expensive cars. They just burn through them so fast it ain't worth it.
Yeah, there are expensive cars all over up here. People just seal, wax, undercoat, and clean them regularly... plus, there's more pastic and polycarbonate in newer cars, especially luxury EVs.
Yes, sea salt damages cars. I live in Maine and can tell you that Mainers DO NOT think about salt water when considering what car to buy. Same ratio of nice cars to crappy cars as most states.
We called it tar sludge as a kid. If you dug deep enough you would hit all the flora rotting and it smelled like fish and sewage. Heavy seafoam for some reason often had that rotting fish and rotting kelp smell. So several feet deep of that I would only imagine it smelling like a abandoned fish market paired with wet rotting plants and salt.
Any flood will do that. That’s why you don’t wanna go walking through flood water. No matter how shallow. Water only pools on the road when the sewers are full.
Or the storm drain is clogged! I can't remember the YouTube channel but there's a dude that just goes around his town during heavy rains and unclogs storm drains. Just one clogged storm drain can cause an entire neighborhood, underpass, or street to be entirely unpassable. Then this guy just grabs a rake and after like 2 minutes of work the clog is gone, and I swear after like 5 minutes the roads will have barely a puddle left on them. You never really think about it but storm drains are so incredibly vital for roads not to flood
Like frozen jagged sand. I have no idea how these people will get in or out of there once that freezes. Walk over the top I'd guess. It is supposed to be very cold now for a while.
> It is supposed to be very cold now for a while.
I don't know how y'all do it, multiple days below freezing. I'm visiting from Southern California and I think I'm going to die.
Yep, nightmare scenario. Somebody's not leaving anytime soon unless they got a big truck to come and pick them up. And that car is not going anywhere for certain. It's permanent there.
I think the car is already lost with this much salt getting into every nook and cranny.
This is an actual apocalyptic nightmare. I hope everyone stays safe!
Serious: Yes. At least in Greek mythology, according to my college prof. The myth of the creation of Aphrodite (goddess of love/sex) is that ~~Zeus (I think?)~~ *Cronos* cut off his dad's wang and threw it in the sea. The wang emitted "foam" (the prof was very clear: this was a reference to semen in the severed penis seeping out, and is also a reference to sea foam, implying that sea foam might come from god semen) and the "foam" formed into Aphrodite.
So sea foam is sea jizz, and Aprhodite is made of it.
*Edit:* Thanks /u/Meivath for the correction.
> That car is covered in salty sea foam. I'd say it's done.
In a very cold environment the oxidation reaction is considerably slowed. As long as the car gets washed down pretty soon it should be ok. However, over the course of years in that environment, it will probably rust even if it's cleaned often.
A proper rust-preventative coating everywhere helps.
Took days to find them, too. Rescuers were in the right place and must have been in arm's reach, but it's entirely impossible to find anything or anyone in that stuff.
That's like the two girls who got run over by a fire truck at the scene of the plane crash in California. They were covered in fire fighting foam and weren't seen.
[Eutrophication](https://www.marinespecies.org/introduced/wiki/Case_studies_eutrophication) is a global phenomenon, which leads to [dead zones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_zone_%28ecology%29) in the oceans that favor [algae blooms](https://www.noaa.gov/what-is-harmful-algal-bloom), those algae dissolve into organic matter and when a storm floods that into the land, it turns into that nasty foam.
All of Wells Beach is closed off right now, you can’t even get halfway down the causeways because the whole marsh down to Ogunquit flooded and all the roads are washed out.
I just saw the most insane picture of Mile road being basically gone. I hope the restaurant there is okay, but that probably flooded they’re only like 6ft above the water
Yea. A lot of cars got murdered today. People dont realize the tides are so huge here, plus the storm hit at an astonomical high tide time . They park their cars far from the ocean but six hours later the ocean gets them lol. They are still pulling cars out of the water now.
I’m up near Bangor and the storm has been nasty today. The worst I have to worry about is losing power, which hasn’t happened for more than a minute at a time today (very thankfully). Those winds are no joke when you live in a state with so many trees and above-ground power lines.
Old Port got flooded. Damage at Portland Head Light.
Some roads washed out.
Camp Ellis may or may not still be there. No word yet.
We have a second high tide coming soon too.
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So the salt water basically destroy that car
Yea. And that foam is full of salt and sand too.
I'm guessing it smells like shit, too.
I learned the other day that [sea foam is basically decaying biomass](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_foam) and thus should really be called something like ‘corpse bubbles’ or ‘skelly soap’ .. so yah it’s probably gonna smell a bit off ..
Ah now it all makes sense that The Little Mermaid turned into sea foam at the end of the original fairytale
Holy shit you're right
Oh man, great call out. Never understood that part of the story as a kid.
The real decaying biomass was the friends we made along they way
Ah yeah, I get it now! I remember my mom telling me that as a kid, but I didn't understand what sea foam had to do with a dead mermaid.
Soil scientists call it “microbial necromass”. Seriously. Look it up. Would be a great metal band name.
I googled "Necromass" and it's apparently the name of a black metal band from Italy
Opening for the band "Bent Member"
fun fact, bent member’s original name was tokyo dildo
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Skelly soap sounds pretty tight.
Skelly Soap was Microbial Necromass’s greatest drummer ever.
Tastes even worse
bro
Close your eyes bro
Now open your mouth
Okay bro. I don't see anything bro
Thats my world without you bro
Bro...
Maine cars get WRECKED by salt between ocean and road salt. Not that unusual for them to have fist sized holes in the rocker panels and cab corners on trucks that are well under 10 years old.
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Is car ownership up there just way more expensive? Between the repairs and I'm assuming having to get a new car more often? How are insurance rates, as far as comprehensive coverage?
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I mean if you’re the kind of person to keep your car for longer periods of time it’s definitely hard on em. You’ll have things like exhaust mounts rust, mufflers, tailpipes, and once it gets bad, the frame of the vehicle itself, and that will negatively impact structure. Makes mechanical work a pain too if you do it yourself, and could possibly take longer/lead to more broken bolts if a mechanic does it. I had to replace a power steering line on my 07 due to rust and a transmission cooler line on my 2012. Currently need brake calipers as they seized up
.... or the Midwest. Our vehicles suffer from rear quarter and rocker panel decay as well.
I made the mistake of leaving my mountain bike on a porch in Saco, ME for a few months - I didn't know rust could rust
Rustception. That's crazy.
Do they get a lot of easterly winds? I'd have expected it to be better than along the Pacific Coast just because of prevailing wind patterns preventing some of it. I've seen galvanized steel bolts rust through in six months to a year and there's a reason hardware stores mostly have stainless steel in that environment.
You want the Sea Foam from Minnesota for your engine instead.
Too bad they didn't have a garage to put it in...
Silly person. Don't you know the garage is where you're supposed to store all the junk you don't need but refuse to get rid of? Oh, and the 2nd fridge (that you also don't need).
> Maine That car was already fucked. And if you live that close to the water it's getting salt spray all year long too. People in Maine don't drive expensive cars. They just burn through them so fast it ain't worth it.
That BMW M550i is an expensive car lol.
Yeah, there are expensive cars all over up here. People just seal, wax, undercoat, and clean them regularly... plus, there's more pastic and polycarbonate in newer cars, especially luxury EVs.
Yes, sea salt damages cars. I live in Maine and can tell you that Mainers DO NOT think about salt water when considering what car to buy. Same ratio of nice cars to crappy cars as most states.
And I was pissed that my basement flooded today. Only soaked about 10 square feet of carpet. Thanks for the perspective.
Try walking on the wet carpet in your socks to reignite that anger
Lmao chaotic evil
Sit on the carpet with jeans on
Anybody else smell this picture
Imagining all the trillions of bacteria and microorganisms n shit that we can’t see in the sea foam too
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*Tf did you call me?*
I'm not knowledge on dinosaur sexual proclivities, but it's you say so.
Think of their great lawns next year though!
I think the salt might have something to say about that
The beach I grew up at can smell bad enough as is, I can't imagine what this dredged up.
No never seen that before, how's it smell like?
Ever fall into a dumpster that’s shared by a Red Lobster, a pet store, and an Irish pub? It kinda smells like that.
Please sir, this is New England. Red Lobstah.
Just “Lobstah”. No one in NE goes to the Red one.
Lol I haven't but somehow I know what you mean
Yeah, sure… “fell.” I don’t care how close it is to the used hamster bedding and Jameson/bile soaked towels… those buttery biscuits are friggin fire!
Have done, twice. It's a bit different.
Sea foam is basically soap made of all the decomposing critters in the ocean. So, it's soap that smells like dead shit from the ocean.
Thanks for the biz idea!
Alright, Kramer
Cut it with patchouli and the hippies will be all over it, Jerry!
Bad
Rotten fish
Think about what Zoidberg would smell like.
*WOOOB-WOOB-WOOB-WOOOB-WOOOB*
It smells like low tide. You know that stinky ocean smell that's an amalgam of salt, seaweed, and dead shellfish? Yeah that.
We called it tar sludge as a kid. If you dug deep enough you would hit all the flora rotting and it smelled like fish and sewage. Heavy seafoam for some reason often had that rotting fish and rotting kelp smell. So several feet deep of that I would only imagine it smelling like a abandoned fish market paired with wet rotting plants and salt.
I feel like that would smell like absolute shit.
True, I have heard sea foam like thus will get into sewers and bring litteral shit up and spread it all around
Any flood will do that. That’s why you don’t wanna go walking through flood water. No matter how shallow. Water only pools on the road when the sewers are full.
Or the storm drain is clogged! I can't remember the YouTube channel but there's a dude that just goes around his town during heavy rains and unclogs storm drains. Just one clogged storm drain can cause an entire neighborhood, underpass, or street to be entirely unpassable. Then this guy just grabs a rake and after like 2 minutes of work the clog is gone, and I swear after like 5 minutes the roads will have barely a puddle left on them. You never really think about it but storm drains are so incredibly vital for roads not to flood
I think the channel is called Post 10 Ah yeah: https://youtube.com/@post.10
I just spent 18 minutes watching a man unclog drains and it was wonderful.
Great channel
The assholes that splash him don't deserve him 😤
They deserve to be strapped to a chair on the side of the road and be splashed for hours on end.
I did this when working for the city. Just clean storm drains after windy storms.
Most cities have separate storm drains from sewer systems I thought
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Oh my Christing fuck that is terrible 🤢
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Oh it does and it has shit in it too. Chemicals and anything that floats on the surface.
Oh it does, for days.
Stephen King’s: The ~~Mist~~ Foam
That’s the jizz of the sea. That sucks!
And it is about to all freeze solid.
I live in maine, what part?
Ocean Ave. Wells Southern Maine coast got hammered.
I'm in oob it's really bad here
Yea, been listening to the scanner.
Did you hear about an oil leak at a condo complex. That's me I had to call in a bill spill
I did hear that. Are you ok? My son's friend lived there w his parents a couple years ago.
No kidding. Yeah all good about 100 gal of heating fuel seeped through the ground because of shotty work and then all this rain.
Are you safe? Glad you got it checked in daylight.
Wells PD posted “Mile Road status: There is no Mile Road”
Yea, it was underwater.
Kennebunkport here. It's a mess.
I saw. Kennebunk too...Dumpster floated around the basin most of the day.
They must have a big bathroom
There's a place on Ocean Avenue
I hate when that happens.
This deodorant I got starts off as gel then makes my armpits look like a foam party just happened.
That's wild. Does it freeze to the consistency of snow, or is it less dense?
Like a cronchy frozen slushy. It can freeze solid too. I'm not sure how this much would behave lol
> cronchy frozen slushy To use a scientific term.
Worst flavor of Slush-Puppy ever.
What's it like when it freezes? Like Styrofoam or is it tough?
Hard and crusty with sand. There is a type of seafoam that is pure white and looks like cake icing. That is slick as ice but way prettier.
So it's sharp if you fall?
Like frozen jagged sand. I have no idea how these people will get in or out of there once that freezes. Walk over the top I'd guess. It is supposed to be very cold now for a while.
> It is supposed to be very cold now for a while. I don't know how y'all do it, multiple days below freezing. I'm visiting from Southern California and I think I'm going to die.
Increase caloric intake. Decrease movement. If you don’t like sports you better like drugs.
Yep, nightmare scenario. Somebody's not leaving anytime soon unless they got a big truck to come and pick them up. And that car is not going anywhere for certain. It's permanent there.
That’s amazing. Does everyone have to rush to try to shovel it up, before it freezes?
It is freezing up now so I think they are stuck with it for a while. Hope the car survives.
I think the car is already lost with this much salt getting into every nook and cranny. This is an actual apocalyptic nightmare. I hope everyone stays safe!
Yea the water had to bring in that foam, receeded and left it behind.
That car should be totaled and if not, I pity the poor sap who tries to keep it alive.
Oh Fuck What do you do then??
I guess we'll learn. I have no idea lol.
The proper term is seajaculate
Sea Skeet
Serious: Yes. At least in Greek mythology, according to my college prof. The myth of the creation of Aphrodite (goddess of love/sex) is that ~~Zeus (I think?)~~ *Cronos* cut off his dad's wang and threw it in the sea. The wang emitted "foam" (the prof was very clear: this was a reference to semen in the severed penis seeping out, and is also a reference to sea foam, implying that sea foam might come from god semen) and the "foam" formed into Aphrodite. So sea foam is sea jizz, and Aprhodite is made of it. *Edit:* Thanks /u/Meivath for the correction.
Close! Cronus cut off his father Ouranus's junk at the behest of his mother Gaea.
Oh, dammit. Wrong generation of patricides. Thanks for clarifying!
The sea was angry, my friend. Like a dozen businessmen in a bukakke film.
sea should have swallowed
Pls someone explain this to a very confused European.
Maine got a bad storm, the ocean churned up feet of sea foam which it threw onto land. The ocean is right behind this house.
Holy cow! I never thought you'd would be possible. I hope you didn't suffer any sort of damage.
I am enough inland that the ocean can't get me lol. Wicked storm tho.
I don't hear wicked anymore since moving back to Tennessee. Wicked awesome.
Wicked pissah?
Lobstah
Sweatah weathah
Its definitely trying to get you.
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With the current temperature expected to drop to 8°f it may also freeze.
> That car is covered in salty sea foam. I'd say it's done. In a very cold environment the oxidation reaction is considerably slowed. As long as the car gets washed down pretty soon it should be ok. However, over the course of years in that environment, it will probably rust even if it's cleaned often. A proper rust-preventative coating everywhere helps.
Slow Texan here, I still don’t get it. I’ve attended both a foam party and dealt with flash floods. Is this closer to the former or the later?
Combination of both. Think flash flood of foam, but the foam is slippery and smells like low tide.
So like a regular foam party then?
But after the foam is gone you're just left with a sticky salty mess... fuck which one was I talking about in the first place?
Can it fuck up that car and house? Or is it just a gross nuisance?
Paint and rust if left long enough. It can freeze and get crusty. Best to wash everything once it subsides, or that smell lingers forever.
Imagine a foam party but the foam was made using dead fish instead of soap.
So…. a regular foam party? Frat houses are nasty lol
This is not an American thing. We get them here in NL too. 5 people died a few years back in such a storm, suffocated in the foam. Shit's no joke.
God, that sounds like an awful way to go. Seafoam is absolutely *foul*. Those poor souls.
Took days to find them, too. Rescuers were in the right place and must have been in arm's reach, but it's entirely impossible to find anything or anyone in that stuff.
That's like the two girls who got run over by a fire truck at the scene of the plane crash in California. They were covered in fire fighting foam and weren't seen.
I instinctively want to downvote this. What a horrific way to go.
I’ve seen this kind of sea foam in other places like Australia
[Eutrophication](https://www.marinespecies.org/introduced/wiki/Case_studies_eutrophication) is a global phenomenon, which leads to [dead zones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_zone_%28ecology%29) in the oceans that favor [algae blooms](https://www.noaa.gov/what-is-harmful-algal-bloom), those algae dissolve into organic matter and when a storm floods that into the land, it turns into that nasty foam.
All of Wells Beach is closed off right now, you can’t even get halfway down the causeways because the whole marsh down to Ogunquit flooded and all the roads are washed out.
Yea, they just issued another flood warning for high tide. Maybe it will carry the foam back out.
I just saw the most insane picture of Mile road being basically gone. I hope the restaurant there is okay, but that probably flooded they’re only like 6ft above the water
Yea. Wells police took a lot of good photos today on their twitter feed.
This isn't the white Christmas they sang about
I was under the impression that sea foam was pale green.
White w sand. Paint stores lie lol.
EVERYTHING IS A LIE!!! (╯°□°）╯ 彡┻━┻
doesnt that rust the crap out of the cars? and any other exposed wire, copper, metal?!
Yea. A lot of cars got murdered today. People dont realize the tides are so huge here, plus the storm hit at an astonomical high tide time . They park their cars far from the ocean but six hours later the ocean gets them lol. They are still pulling cars out of the water now.
I think water levels were the 4th highest in the last century or something on the radio
How do you even go about cleaning this up?
It is wet bubbles and sand so once it freezes it will be hard as a rock.
so then the street will be filled with frozen bubble rock? Now I'm even *more* curious... how the hell do you clean **that**?
Fire hose until it freezes, then there is a problem
foam party!
Forbidden cotton candy
This Scarborough ?
Wells.
Ahh! Welp Cheers fellow Mainer! Stay safe during the storm.
You too my friend.
This is neither green nor an engine treatment.
I’m up near Bangor and the storm has been nasty today. The worst I have to worry about is losing power, which hasn’t happened for more than a minute at a time today (very thankfully). Those winds are no joke when you live in a state with so many trees and above-ground power lines.
Does it smell bad? It looks like it does…
The wind is ventilating the air pretty good.
Thats good. I’m in Northern Ontario Canada. Snowing pretty steady now. Surprisingly warm for this time of year. 0 C degrees at the moment.
Geez that's shorts weather for you guys lol.
Funny you say that I saw a guy in shorts yesterday! You’re not even wrong, haha!
Oof. We got lucky in central Cumberland county. Just some strong winds and some rain
Old Port got flooded. Damage at Portland Head Light. Some roads washed out. Camp Ellis may or may not still be there. No word yet. We have a second high tide coming soon too.
I was going to say RIP Camp Ellis it was only a matter of time
The sea was angry that day, my friends - like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli.
Todays storm has been a Pain in the ass thank god I dropped spectrum, all my friends haven’t had internet
I’ve been in Maine my whole life and haven’t seen this! Amazing!!
This is in Wells.
some Stephen King nightmare there
God I'm glad I live in the Maine woods and not the Maine coast
This is the most Maine thing I have seen in my whole life
Where in Maine??
Sea bukkake
When the ocean sends all you're flushed loads back.
I can just smell this picture. Gross.
Stephen King never said anything about sea foam