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A friend of mine took this picture at Old Orchard Beach last week after a bizarre mass wash up of clams.
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Was it the storm?
The earthquake?
The (then future) eclipse?
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I don’t know.
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But they were all still alive and I’m guessing lots of local residents had chowder that night.
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River's world..... 
How odd. You’d think if it were caused by a storm, it would happen more often. They say animals do weird things during eclipses, but an earthquake seems as likely a cause (to my unscientific mind) as any. Either way, I think it qualifies as a new meaning for the term “clam up.”
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To my knowledge it’s never happened there before so it does makes me wonder…
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I’m thinking by now the smell must be something really special. Now, all the chowder with none of the digging? If I was in a position to capitalize on this bounty, whoever’s cooking could just hand me a bucket and tell me when to stop.
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Clams are expensive, I doubt they lasted long.
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Odd. They’re open, so easy prey. But I wouldn’t eat them.
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Don’t you mean….Clampocalyps?
That is very strange and that they were still alive is even stranger. I suspect a lot of them didn’t go to waste, at least I hope not. That would have been a shame, think of all the chowder, fried clams and even linguini with clam sauce.
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They weren’t all alive, but enough were that people were harvesting.
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I don’t think I’d eat these guys – although I love clam chowder. They could have some strange clam virus.
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I’ll report back if southern Maine is sick ….
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Maybe they just wanted a better view of the eclipse…I don’t think the earthquake would send them ashore. Odd indeed.
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They’re larger than the usual little necks we dig around here, so that’s odd as well.
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Weird!
Oxygen thing maybe.. similar to mass fish die off?
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I have no idea.
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I love steamed clams but haven’t made them in years. This might have something to do with the fact that I now live nowhere near an ocean.
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Inland clams should always be avoided.
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