[nomorelurker]

Only been a few years, less than 10, since motels in Port Aransas Tex quite putting little packages of towelettes in your room to wipe the tar off your feet. Even today a storm or unusual tide will expose some tar on Mustang Island. But most of it was gone in about 15 years.

I need to look up whoever made those little towelette packages and buy some stock.

[D-fendr]

Thus far, the main comparison, accurate comparison, we can make between these two events is they’re both big.

We don’t know what we’ve got with Deepwater yet, just lots of increasing flows, failed attempts and theories on what the situation with the seabed and lining and field and pressure.

Locations are very different - both in what ecosystems are impacted and the vertical depths.

They’re both big, how big Deepwater is we don’t know yet. The composition of what’s coming out and the result of it and the disperants we don’t know yet. And so on..