[jackietree]

Hindcast shows oil affecting the Florida Keys from May 19-May 30 and just south of the Florida Keys from June 6 onward.

Oil drifting westward towards the Tampa Bay & Sarasota, FL areas was approximately 20-30 miles offshore on June 13.

[dalebert]

Unized Obama wont let the states protect themselve...stop and dely tactics of the white house

[HollyB]

May?

[rwfromkansas]

If this is accurate....getting really close to Florida.

Horrible.

Hope it doesn’t hit Sanibel, but looks like a foregone conclusion.

[rarestia]

Let me be the first to call bullshit on this. First off, the Tampa Bay area (my home) is EAST of the spill. If the oil is drifting westward, it’s drifting AWAY from the Tampa Bay area.

There have been numerous reports of oil offshore, but they’ve all been shown to be nothing more than algae bloom. There are no confirmed reports of oil anywhere near the west coast of Florida.

[updatedscreenname]

First one has to project that this spill will continue at least for THREE MORE MONTHS!

Would be interesting if video showed eastern side of FL.
Would be interesting to show effects of hurricane pushing
the surface spill west. IMHO, this is a disaster of Biblical
proportions. Once the Gulf Stream picks up this oil and it starts washing up on US east coast...

[N. Theknow]

Oil drifting westward towards the Tampa Bay & Sarasota, FL areas was approximately 20-30 miles offshore on June 13.

Um....Eastward maybe?

[Freddd]

And today, almost no coverage from Obamamedia on the oil gusher.

Gone, pfft, nothing.

[Minus_The_Bear]

[ignoramus2010]

"After initially declining, U.S. Government officials have decided to accept an offer from the Dutch government to send four large oil skimmers to the site of the BP Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico... One ton of oil is equal to approximately 7.3 barrels, so 5,000 tons a day is about 36,500 barrels per day. Collectively, the four skimmers can take up to 146,000 barrels per day." - article

If the skimmers were used early, even at the current leak estimate of 60,000 barrels/day, no oil would have reached the shore, and it would be totally unnecessary to use dispersants.

[Trust but Verify]

I just read a story yesterday that said the oil was more than 90 miles from Sarasota.

[Joe Brower]

Florida Freeper

[dangus]

Model, not reality. Worth zero.

[NautiNurse]

Color me skeptical toward the veracity of information from an anonymous source using the pseudonym "OILFLORIDA" and a website named "floridaoilspilllaw.com." Hey Noob, are you trying to drum up business for your law firm?

Local Tampa Bay news reported at 12 noon today that the nearest oil to Tampa Bay is ~150 miles offshore, and that is a light sheen. Daily C-130 flights monitor the Tampa Bay area for oil intrusion.

"The threat remains low," U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Tim Close said at a news conference at the state Fish and Wildlife Commission Research Institute. tbo.com

[GOPJ]

I hope someone has the wit to block off Tampa Bay - can’t stop oil in the Gulf - but how hard could it be to keep it out of an narrow enough to be spanned by a bridge?