The US Coastguard is reporting Park Service workers have found 20 tar balls , presumably at Fort Zachary, between 3 and 8 inches in length. The discovery was reported by Yahoo News and as incredible as it seems, we appear to have the first globs of oil from the Gulf spill in the Keys already. They had been talking of another ten days before the stuff was supposed to arrive. Nothing we have been told about this spill appears to have been truthful.
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Im sorry to hear that. I was at that beach last May. Its a beautiful area.Im going to contact my daughter and she what she has heard, she works at jiatfa. i know there are groups of people getting prepared to clean up this mess, lets hope they are successful.
just talked to her and she said shes on a volunteer list to clean up.
Keep up the good work! I invite you to see my post, I hope you will find interesting too.
Well, living in the Outer Banks, I am awaiting this to come our way, sadly enough.. Found 2 dead manta rays a week ago on the beach.. a sign of things to come? Given that Key West is say 1000 miles from OBX, and we are 10 miles WEST of the Loop current, the current runs about 6 miles per hour, we would see effect on Cape Hatteras in about 8 days or so... And I agree, we have been lied to from the start.. for shame. How do these people go to bed at night?
Quick! How do we blame this on Bush?
The million$ in BP campaign contributions to OH-BA-MA, the slow gov't response, the slack regulations which weren't "fixed", the lies/mis-information?
I agree that nothing has been truthful. This NASA image from yesterday shows the spill in the loop current. At least that's the way it looks to me...
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?subset=USA7.2010137.terra.1km
I would definitely blame President Obama for this spill. Might as well blame Al Gore while you are it for not fighting hard enough to get elected in 2000 and leading us down a path not involving war, deficits and a continued reliance on oil.
Meanwhile back on Planet Earth we are planning to preserve the mangroves corals and most sealife by soaking up the oil with barber shop off cuts and detergent.
Alternative energy anybody?
Wow! I hadn't realized that the oil spill was getting that far. How much of an impact to the local economy and sea life is projected for your area?
Mr Conch:
I don't think they realize where the oil has gone. It has settled to the bottom and moving all over the place, while from the top looks contained
bob
Wet Coast Scootin
Dear Sir:
CNN this morning announced that one of the head assholesfrom the Department of the Interior (Minerals Division) is retiring early as he has turned up in a photograph, presenting a plaque for safety, to the other assholes who own the leaking well.
The time has come to extend the border for drilling out to 200 miles, make all off-shore oil wells register as US ships, throw all the bastards off these agencies for getting too cozy with the client, and let's start again.
I am terribly sorry for the ordeal you coul be facing, Conch. At least you won't be bothered by the tourists next year.
Fondest regards,
Jack • reep • Toad
If the worst is going to happen they estimate 80% of the mangroves will die thus allowing increased erosion and killing off fish nurseries while the sunken oil will kill off the reef stone dead. I don't think anyone wants to say it out loud but the Keys will be a wasteland if the reasons people come here are killed off.
Current plans call for volunteers to collect oil by hand, a measure of the lack of reality facing us all. Do something- feel better, never miond the submerged plume that they are telling us about is 400 square miles of underwater death to every living thing.
Conch:
Like I said, we'll be paying for this in generations to come.
Better times are coming...
Fondest regards,
Jack • reep • Toad
Twisted Roads
200 miles? No offshore drilling is more like it. I would happily pay a few bucks more per gallon to avoid ruining every beach in the Gulf.
Hmm say the word tar balls and thought..
well Cheyenne didn't get fur balls.
Mind the world is screwed enough and money is the lubricant.
Either too much or too little and always in the spots where it is
most usueful politically.
Monetary issues aside, just keep thinking all is right with the world
and you'll soon discover it's not.
My world does not include low priced
oil...maybe the USA does, and until
the people realize they are the pawns, troubles shall continue.
Would you return to live in Italy if you could, and not return to the uSA?
Bryce: I have been wondering about that. I think Canada would have made a better destination than California. It's the air of barely suppressed inchoate frenzy that permeates the right wing in the US that worries me more even than the lack of health care, the deficit and the total inability of the electorate to hear any bad news at all. I'm here now, 52 years old and going to make the best of it.
Stay put. The world is made better by those who make the best of it and not those always in search of greener pastures.
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