Posted on 06/05/2010 11:43:48 AM PDT by highimpact
Just got back from exploring the beach. I stopped at 3 locations, the main Navarre Beach parking lot (no tar balls found). 3.5 miles west of the main beach parking lot (scattered tar balls, no more than 1 every 10-15 feet, and very small...no larger than a dime). 7.0 miles west of Navarre Beach has been hit hard. Tar balls are everywhere, and up to the size of the sole on my 10M shoe. They are sticky and slimy, with roughly the consistency of petroleum jelly. They stick to the bottom of your shoes when you walk. Surprisingly, when I picked up a small tar ball and held it up to my nose, it didn't smell like much of anything.
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I am not exaggerating. It is a huge disaster.
Deal with it.
It is very simple. We give one tar ball to every Jew and have them take the tar balls back to Poland and Germany - HELEN THOMAS
“It is very simple. We give one tar ball to every Jew and have them take the tar balls back to Poland and Germany - HELEN THOMAS”
Ouch.
Sincerely,
Helen Thomas
You're right. It is huge for those of us who live here. I have no idea why people are making light of it...
I am. With thoughtful repose, attention to detail and factual reference I predict it will not be an ecological disaster.
The greatest benefit will be knowledge of how to handle this type of accident at these depths in the future.
Which facts are you relying on for your hysteria?
What did she say that sounded hysterical? It's a big deal to us.
Which facts are you relying on for your hysteria?
You have no factual reference to predict the degree of this disaster. All of the data, including my own observations, makes you WRONG. Would you like to buy my house on the beach? You can have it for a cool $350K. It's depreciating by $1000 a day. Make me an offer. Please!?
Ping me in 350 days, OK?
Presumably BP is footing the bill, but I would’ve expected something more along the lines of minimum wage. The tar bars were small and scattered. Three workers were sharing one bag to put the collected tar balls in. There was a report by Fox News later in the day that showed the stretch they were cleaning. Coincidentally, I haven’t seen anyone cleaning today.
Never seen a tar ball on Navarre Beach? I won’t argue, as I don’t live there - and only looked at the beach there. But saw tar balls every day we were at Pensacola Beach (and we actually spent our time East of the actual Pensacola Beach area on the national seashore area. But they were nothing like the little oil drops and tar balls we saw at Mobile just a short distance West. And the Mississippi shoreline all the way to NO is a crap-shoot as far as oil and tar balls.
I also know others personally who live in various locations all along the Gulf... and all say they have seen tar balls before.
I know the popular beach areas are kept pretty well groomed...
What about all the dying birds, turtles and fish. Anyone who does not care about that is truly demented.
Believe it or not, Dalereed and his sweet wife are actually very nice in person.
Met them at a freeper event after the Ronald Reagan Library several years ago.
He’s amazingly self-contained and in incredibly good shape for his ‘experience.’
Tactless?
Devoid of compassion?
Rude? Crude? Undiplomatic?
Yes, yes, yes, yes & yes, and he’ll be the first to admit it.
I hear you. If I recall correctly, someone referred to him, somewhat fondly I believe, as our “resident curmudgeon”. I guess that seems to be pretty much on the mark. :)
He’s a git-er-done, no-holds-barred, dyed-in-the-wool, old-school Patriot, raised in an era of self-sufficiency and no excuses.
I’d trust him with my life.
Thank you for sharing that. I can’t think of a better recommendation. :)
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