It was supposed to reach shore a week ago and the winds changed and the announcement of those tarballs came as a scrolling announcement on the screen during the baseball games yesterday and was the front page of the paper this morning, with the pictures of the little tarballs on the beach.
The picture of the tarballs on the beach are on the front page of the local paper this morning. Interestingly enough, in my boat it takes less than a minute to be in the very bay that Dauphin Island is at the mouth of.
We’ve been hearing this crap non-stop for two weeks now and this was all supposed to hit last week. Around town there are plenty of obvious green BP stations that have little shell flags unfurled over the BP signs. Want to know why? Because very few people in the general public knows that BP and Shell are owned by the same company and people have already begun boycotting BP gasoline down here. A spectacular example of this is the one at Halls Mill and McVay.
So, I think I know plenty.
Yeah, saw the news about the tarballs this AM as well.
The bad news, the catastrophe if you will, is how tourism is collapsing.
BP needs to take the heat for this. They also need to be recognized *IF* they step up and fix things well.