[jackietree]

Looks like yesterdays forecast was correct:

NOAA forecast: Oil 50 miles from Florida Keys by June 15

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmHD7jLlNPE

[And2TheRepublic]

up for a game of gold, anyone? /sarc

[JulieRNR21]

Joe: Please PING FL FReepers.
THX, Julie

[rwfromkansas]

Just damn.

Makes me unbelievably angry. Can’t imagine those who live there.

[SusaninOhio]

I’m guess that the US lack of leadership will not be appreciated if the spill contaminates more than the Gulf of Mexico. Which it sounds like it might.

Yes, time for another round of golf. There are plenty of nice courses in the panhandle. I’m sure O’s social secretary could easily get a foursome together.

Which brings up a question - does he have separate social secretaries, one for golf, one for vacations, one to set up attractive photo sessions? Setting up his golf outings looks like it could be a fulltime job.

[rwfromkansas]

I am kicking myself I never did the whole cruise to the tortugas before to snorkel the reef.

This whole thing just makes me so mad. That place is going to get destroyed by the oil.

[SouthTexas]

Which plume?

NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco said that the tests conducted at three sites by a University of South Florida research vessel confirmed oil as far as 3,300 feet below the surface 42 miles northeast of the well site. Oil also was found in a sub-surface sample 142 miles southeast of the spill, but further tests showed that oil is "not consistent" with oil from the spill.

Lubchenco said the water analysis "indicate there is definitely oil sub surface. It's in very low concentrations" of less than 0.5 parts per million. Additional samples from another research vessel are being tested, she said.

[KDD]

http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=dry+tortugas&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=AHQWTOCwKMT6lwf9_OG5DA&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CEwQsAQwAw

In case anyone is interested in what we are about kill.

Get a good last look.

[BluH2o]

Once the oil is picked up by the currents that turn into the Gulf Stream areas like the Pennekamp State Park Coral Reef near Key Largo will be severely impacted. Great scuba and snorkeling area that will be lost, possibly forever. This disaster is only it's early stages.

[bert]

Tortugas = Fort Jefferson National Park and a vast nature presurve, a marine nature preserve.

If Obama permits that while not letting those that can clean up even if they are non union, he will split his base.

It will be enviro wackos vs: union wackos.......what a great turn of events

[Irisshlass]

Link..says not found

[Bitsy]

Let me know when it reaches Martha’s Vineyard - then I know it will be cleaned up and taken care of.

[Terry Mross]

I thought a “slick” and a “plume” were two different things. In fact, can a plume even be seen with the naked eye?

[VictoryGal]

:-( Dammit, DAMMIT.

[Vaquero]

Bush and Cheney would have had this fixed a month ago....

.....Period.

[JulieRNR21]

Joe: Please PING FL FReepers.
THX, Julie

[mojitojoe]

Tampa Bay is already nearly destroyed by pollution, this would probably finish it off.

[Natural Born 54]

Haven't been to the Keys in years but loved the vacations with the family down there when I was a kid. Boy is it ever built up compared to what it used to be. Beautiful area. Here's an area that looks just like most of it used to look:

FUBO

[Joe Brower]

Florida Freeper

[HereInTheHeartland]

40% chance of a hurricane forming in the Atlantic.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gtwo_atl.shtml