Oil Spill - Not Looking Good - Continued

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Jai-Bo

I'm at Navarre Beach right now working a detail....Navarre is between Pensacola and Ft. Walton. I have not seen any tarballs but have notices stained spots where folks have stepped on em and tracked them up the walkways....It was a beautiful sunset this eve but didn't snap a pic!!!

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Hi Jai-Bo,

I just looked it up on a map and Navarre Beach looks like a dream spot to be working. I'm glad the situation isn't worse then it is (yet). I'm like you and need to get out and take more photographs of what we have at our beaches, it could be decades before it looks this clean again.

Thanks for the post, real life eye accounts are always better then what we might or might not hear on the news.

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Hey Tweev

I find it entertaining and an interesting read but wonder who would have the time to write like that? :cheer:

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cookn biker

Holy Moses Blair!! It's all oil.

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Hi Molly

I am guessing that yes that is all oil and that there is a lot more that we don't see in this image. The angle of the sun has to be right for it to reflect so we can see it and the spill is larger than what we see here. :(

Blair

 

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Oil Spills Into Perdido Bay

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Up to 40,000-plus barrels per day pouring into Gulf
As much as 40,000-plus barrels of oil per day are pouring from BP's ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico, a US official said Thursday, more than doubling the previous government estimate.

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Sometimes it is hard to tell oil from clouds, the clouds cast shadows, although sometimes difficult to see and the oil does not.



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Todays images . . . I suspect that what we see is the sun reflecting off the wave and wind patterns, I'm not sure.

Weather conditions in that part of the Gulf of Mexico today were as follows.

National Data Bouy Station 42039
Conditions as of:
Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:50:00 UTC
Winds: E (100°) at 3.9 kt (4.48 mph) gusting to 7.8 kt (8.97 mph)
Significant Wave Height: 1.0 ft
Dominant Wave Period: 4 sec
Atmospheric Pressure: 30.09 in and steady
Air Temperature: 83.5 F
Dew Point: 71.6 F
Water Temperature: 86.0 F
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Todays image . . . clouds and glare from the sun but I don't think any oil in sight in this image.




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Link to article -
Oil Spill Spreads in La.'s Big, Rich Barataria Bay


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Food for thought -

Link to article -

Oil Disaster Shows Need for Endangered Species Act Overhaul


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"So far, critics have focused on the Minerals Management Service’s evasion of National Environmental Policy Act, which requires federal agencies to evaluate environmental impacts when making decisions. The MMS essentially operated in collusion with the oil industry in what one federal investigator called “a culture of ethical failure,” allowing drilling to proceed without NEPA review. Those approvals have continued, with at least 19 environmental waivers granted since the April 20 explosion."

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Vast Amounts of Methane in Gulf Spill Pose Threat

Link to article HERE.

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cookn biker

This whole thing sickens me. Even the court bs that has been going on. Cuba is taking action for fear the oil, is headed their way, and it will. World disaster on so many levels.

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I agree totally Molly, we have no idea how far the repercussions of this are going to reach. This is an environmental disaster out of our worst nightmares. It has been our destiny for a long, long time and the powers that be failed to use common sense to prevent it. These have been and are the days when our hindsight down the road is going to be saying "we should have done this . . ." and those in control didn't. I have trouble believing that the flow from the well couldn't have been stopped long ago and that all attempts to control it have been with production continuing after the leak is contained as the objective. The destruction of the well has never been an option and all efforts of controlling it preserve the future of production.

Every time I start my car I know I am part of the problem, but what can we do?

Just my .02¢ worth.

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cookn biker

You know, I listen to pbr, I do not watch tv, not for 2years. The gov, bp nor others involved with this supposed clean up are, as usual, not listening to the local wisdom. Fish folks, h2o folks, ect. Same **** diff. disastert. This has to change.

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I hope things do change for the better Molly, we need to get some good out of this mess. Change doesn't come fast or easy but just maybe a catastrophe of this magnitude will help. We can only hope and pray.

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Todays image . . . these images amaze me! We only see a small part of it on any one day. What we have done to ourselves! :blink: :blink: :blink:







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Todays image . . . It's difficult to tell glare from the sun and possible oil today.




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Todays image . . . again hard to tell what is glare from the sun and what is oil. I think we are looking at both.








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