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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Aargh! I wonder if they’re going to be fired and rehired umpteen times to make the employment numbers look good.
“Aargh! I wonder if they’re going to be fired and rehired umpteen times to make the employment numbers look good.”
I wouldn’t put it past the government to do that. I take it you saw the video of the census worker?
“Up to this point, is the loss due more to the actual oil spill or the hysteria generated by the press?”
I think it’s about a 50/50 split between the two. The tar balls are yucky, but the water is mostly clear, and 95% of the beach is still white sand. Most beach-goers are just taking in the beauty and laying on towels. People who choose to get in the water aren’t coming out covered in oil, but if I was living 100’s of miles away, planning a vacation, I would think twice about choosing the gulf coast.
And reference post #76, I said "IF" you consider the north cut-in ...
But I guess you're "lack of control" of your temper ... blocked your eyes from reading that. (hehehe)
Come here and find it. I'll wager money that you won't. I've been here for years. I've walked hundreds of miles of forest in NW Florida, and I've never seen a Birch tree. I lived 29 years in the state of Washington. I have 20+ years of hunting, hiking, and camping in temperate forests, and I know a Birch when I see one.
But I guess you're "lack of control" of your temper ... blocked your eyes from reading that. (hehehe)
You don't know when to use apostrophes (you're,) quotes ("lack of control"), ellipses (temper ... blocked,) , parenthesis (hehehe), or even the elementary choice of words (blocked your eyes.) Your inattention, lack of dedication, and inability to follow remedial education has failed you. Good luck in your job search.
The beaches in SE Texas used to have a lot of tar balls on them. We used get tar on our feet when visiting those beaches. (Not so much in recent years.) FYI and possible use, the easiest way to remove a tar spot was to rub it with baby oil.
The tar balls came from tankers, spills, refineries, and natural seeps. Hundreds of years ago the Spanish used to caulk their boats with tar from Texas beaches [Link].
Thanks. It was nice while it lasted. Between the hurricanes and the oil spill, it seems like a never-ending battle against nature.
FYI and possible use, the easiest way to remove a tar spot was to rub it with baby oil.
Interesting tidbit. Thanks.
Hundreds of years ago the Spanish used to caulk their boats with tar from Texas beaches.
I can believe it. I'm sure there are a lot of uses for tar balls, but I don't really have any use for them! LOL :)
You've been a lot'ta fun.
But you can't even identify a paper-barked birch.
Good night, and don't mix those meds with that beer.
I read an article about two census workers’ fire/rehire situations. Can’t be good for their work record but what does Obama and his minions care about that.
I have no probelm with this drilling and pumping. In fact it saves tarballs from coming on to the beaches in many cases.
When the ban on offshore drilling was enacted off California, they had to cap the wells.
The wells are easily uncapped and we have much oil already tapped off of California.
“I guess us country hicks just don’t know n’uthin’.
You’ve been a lot’ta fun.”
I’m a country hick, too. Thanks for the argument. No harm intended. Have a nice weekend.
Excellent post. Why are so many conservatives acting like emotional liberals?
Agreed. My problem is not with the drilling/pumping, it's with the enviro-wacko's who insist it's done 70-miles off-shore, 5,000' below the surface. If the Deepwater Horizon was the Shallowwater Horizon, it wouldn't be a problem.
See post 90.
We can tap that oil off Califorinia much more easily than drilling 2 miles down in deepwater.
Yep.
See post #93. We can do the same off the coast of FL/AL/MS/LA/TX. Oil is easy to get, but the environmentalists are in the way. This spill is purely the result of deep-water drilling.
Yep.
I know. The difficulty is getting the general public to understand that this oil spill “disaster” is green.
Their policies block on shore drilling and limit competition to the big boys who use their political capital to move the ball down the court.
If this spill was 100 feet deep or on land, it would have been corrected and the company would be making money, and the US gov would be drawing taxes from it.
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