South Floridians are sick of smelly seaweed; cities say they’re doing what they can

Compounding the problem is that more drastic measures, such as bringing in bulldozers and other heavy equipment, are often impossible. This isn’t just sargassum season — it’s also sea turtle season. Any attempt to dig up piles of the seaweed could also dig up sea turtle eggs. So, in many cases, especially where nests are present, raking will have to do, even if it’s tantamount to Sisyphus rolling a boulder up a hill only to have it roll back down again, for eternity … or at least until mid-autumn or so when, historically, cooler seas have cut down on the seaweed.