Posted on 06/26/2010 8:27:00 AM PDT by Kartographer
Ron Greve expects the worst is yet to come in the oil spill drama that is haranguing beach towns all along the US Gulf Coast. So, like a growing number of residents, the Pensacola Beach solar-cell salesman took a hazardous materials class and received a “hazmat card” upon graduation.
Those cards, says Mr. Greve, could become critical in coming weeks and months. In the case of a hurricane hitting the 250-mile wide slick and pushing it over sand dunes and into beach towns, residents fear they’ll face not only mass evacuations, but potential permanent relocation.
Storm-wizened locals know that it can take days, even weeks, for roads to open and authorities to allow residents to return to inspect the damage and start to rebuild after a hurricane moves through.
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
Its funny I have to hear from MSM that the Tampa Bay area will evacuate. Total bs. News to me.
Why do we constantly have to build new worst case hypothetical situations?
All of this fear mongering is making me sick.
What if? What if? Could it? Environmentalists fear it might! Government concern. Government action before anything has happened. Need a trillion dollars. Ooops! No swine flu for you.
You so owe me a new screen!
Depends on the tee times at Ottawa area courses. I wonder if any other G-8 types golf?
The damning of DDT was a farce.
Agree.
listening to the MSM you’d think they were wishing for a disaster like this to happen. bloodsuckers!
Thanks!
Christian Science Monitor weighs in.
YES!
But such is third on a list of possibilities.
The 2nd is the oil could cause the:
However these two thing would only happen after the first on the list:
Which is that winged primates will depart from Obama's nether regions and whisk us all away to Oz.
A hurricane is nature’s way of cleaning things up actually.
Sounds like they are saying all the roads could become soaked in oil just like deep south dirt roads were back....wait...Never mind.
Residents fears and reality are two different things.
The amount of oil spilled would have to be concentrated in a single small area, not over a 250 mile area, to cause any real alarm.
Here in Texas people live right in the middle of oil fields. Since they stopped flaring the gas, the gas is now vented into the air, and oil spills happen all the time. There is no mass die off.
Time to put on the hip waders. The BS is getting deeper by the day.
Photo credit: Ditter (Paparazzi to unusual architecture)
It's clear that the physical effects of the PEMEX spill in 1979 were cleared up many years ago, and without any money from PEMEX for damages sustained from oil that washed up on the Texas coast. BP is at least willing to compensa
I believe the Gulf of Mexico will not be irreparably harmed by the spill, and fishing, shrimping and oystering will return.
I particularly don't like seeing the glee with which some are ready to write off the Coast, and its inhabitants, in some effort to make Obama look bad. He's looking bad all on his own, without the histrionics about the spill's effects.
Have you seen this video? In fact as anyon that comment on this post seen this video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkYJDI8pK9Y
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