Current Air Quality along the Gulf Coast

AirNow ^ | June 28. 2010 | AirNow

[The Comedian]

Useful. Scary too.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[The Comedian]

I-can’t-breathe-or-maybe-I’m-just-outta-shape Ping.

[smokingfrog]

Looks okay to me.

For the past few days I’ve had what I thought is a cold, but maybe I can blame it on the BP oil spill.

Where’s my check?

[blam]

I've been feeling like an old man lately.
(ahem, never mind)

[The Comedian]

Where’s my check?

Signed by a "Michael E. Mouse", and deposited in a Petrobas account owned by a "Mr. G. Soros" in a Kenyan bank.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[Joe 6-pack]

I’m in south-central Louisiana and my house smells like cigar smoke...

[The Comedian]

I’m in south-central Louisiana and my house smells like cigar smoke..

Cohibas or Swisher Sweets?

This is important...

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[The Cajun]

I’m in south-central Louisiana and my house smells like cigar smoke...

Hell, I'm in south-east Louisiana and my house smells like Marlboro.
Guess the smell must thicken up as it heads west ;^)

[Joe 6-pack]

[blam]

Just received in an email:

Surf at Pensacola Beach Boiling Like Acid

[The Comedian]

I love those things.

Step-brother turned me onto them a couple of years ago.

A fine guilty pleasure.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[The Comedian]

Brother, you need to leave.

Really.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[kara2008]

Can you elaborate? There is so much tinfoil crap going around I don’t know what to believe. But, I am very concerned since I am next to Marco Island. Thoughts?

[Kartographer]

One...two...three...four

Just count how long before you are told about how wrong you are and how you are a ‘scaremonger’ and how when we were you we use to drink shots of Jack and benzene and naphtha in our cigarette lighters and they passed gas much worse than any methane from any old oil well.

[blam]

"Can you elaborate? There is so much tinfoil crap going around I don’t know what to believe. But, I am very concerned since I am next to Marco Island. Thoughts?"

I don't know. I can't tell anything from that video other than there's oil on those beaches. I'm going to bed...I'll worry again tomorrow, lol.

[gulfcoast6]

Sorry piece of ‘stuff’ in Wasington could do something about it, call in the big ships.. this is going to be his waterloo..

[The Comedian]

Can you elaborate? There is so much tinfoil crap going around I don’t know what to believe. But, I am very concerned since I am next to Marco Island. Thoughts?

Without going into unnecessary details, let me just tell you that the number of possible catastrophic outcomes outnumbers the satisfactory outcome count. As a risk manager, I always error on the side of fear and safety while at the same time avoiding panic and paranoia.

I recommend you leave. If the situation improves, return, and you've lost nothing. If the situation deteriorates and you stay, the window for safe evacuation may close.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[The Comedian]

Just count how long before you are told about how wrong you are and how you are a ‘scaremonger’ and how when we were you we use to drink shots of Jack and benzene and naphtha in our cigarette lighters and they passed gas much worse than any methane from any old oil well.

I look at the relatively brief period of recorded human history, and count the number of stable societies and their respective lifespans, and I look at the geological record and see extinctions and catastrophic earth changes, and I conclude one thing:

We're overdue for a >50% planetary population reduction via at least a dozen possible causes. And this abiotic oil release wasn't even on my list.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[blam]

"We're overdue for a >50% planetary population reduction via at least a dozen possible causes. And this abiotic oil release wasn't even on my list. "

I'm a catastrophist and I can't disagree with you. I wonder what the reaction would be if something like this were to happen tomorrow?

Evidence Of Tunguska-Type Impacts Over The Pacific Basin Around The Year 1178 AD

[blam]

FYI...I’m keeping my eye on Katla.