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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Beach sand is dangerously unstable - always. The rule is never dig a hole deeper than your knees.

It’s sad that so many people seem ignorant of this common sense.[/quote]

If “so many people seem ignorant of this” then it’s not “common sense”.  I hope this tragedy garners a lot of attention— so that people who are less familiar with beaches and the properties of sand can learn from it. [/quote]
Yes. As someone who grew up 30 minutes from the ocean/a beach, I knew this rule. But this family was from Fort Wayne, Indiana- I'm guessing they were not going to "the beach" with regularity or enough to have this ingrained as common sense. [/quote]

This!  I’m from a landlocked area and had no idea.  Fortunately, my sister and I never had the interest or commitment to dig anything deeper than a few inches.  And now I know and will make sure my kids know.  But if you don’t live near a beach/sand, you don’t know the rules.  Just like how [b]Florida kids don’t learn to drive safely in the snow[/b].[/quote]

How does one learn to drive in snow in a place where it doesn’t snow?

That’s the state of Florida’s failing them somehow?

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