We've been to the Gulf off St. Pete Beach (which is on the West side of Tampa Bay with Tampa sitting on the east side of the bay) and there is not one drop of oil to be seen anywhere!
The only thing we HAVE seen is a lot of Florida license plates and damn few out of state license plates.
Even Gulf coast restaurants are giving Florida resident discounts and coupons to "please come back soon."
The way the media, and even the local talking heads on Tampa TV stations are guilty of over-hype, are covering this, one would expect to find oil in drinking fountains and bottled water.
And Sean Hannity is the worst! Every show I've heard of his, he talks about how the oil is going to destroy the Florida's Gulf Coast, Keys, East Coast and all up the entire Eastern Seaboard of the US before it heads for the UK.
And now there is a "wave" that MIGHT become a tropical depression/storm/hurricane and MIGHT be really-really-really BAD.
Someone told me about the "pending storm" yesterday and I told them:
"Until NautiNurse on Free Republic mentions it, there is NO STORM!"
LOL....Amen.
Thanks for your votes of confidence :o)
Tampa is not on the trajectory to have OIL on their beaches. But to dismiss the oil that is in other areas in the panhandle is just ridiculous. Tampa IS on the trajectory for dangerous air if they have to burn oil closer to you.
Some people want to act like because it isn’t in front of them, it doesn’t exist.