Our Beautiful Florida Beaches

[YellowXterra]

My baby girl just arrived at Pensacola NAS they are training the new Sailors to clean up the shore in case it happens.

 

[big kahuna1]

It is indeed sad to watch what is likely coming to the beaches and knowing there is little man can do to prevent it despite an all-out effort. Think too of the men who died when the rig exploded. We may never know the real cause of the explosion, but we should be compassionate toward those who lost their lives because of it.

In our lifetimes we will likely never be free from the need for more oil. Maybe if some other technique had been discovered and developed a hundred years ago, we would not be in the predicament we are in today....to constantly need to find more underground reserves. But until another widescale economical source of energy is found, we will continue to need oil. We will continue to drill and will continue to risk such as we see today.

There are no easy answers. Even those who decry drilling and its dangers use the oil that is found. We can only hope for the future and a renewable resource to replace oil. May God be with us in the coming days and in our future development.

So true. The need to drill off shore would be far, far less if we would drill on land where I believe if this happened, the capping would have been done already and the cleanup far easier.

 

[SandrA9810]

I have a question...

I know its a horrible thing and all... and like Alaska, you never really recover from the effects. But what exactly would nature do in this situation??
It does come from the earth, and I'm sure through earthquakes or plate shifting or something, could cause the oil to rupture without being pumped. So there's got to be some way nature handled it before we came along...

 

[Memph1s]

Natures big Fix is time. The Earth is thought to be 4.6 billion years old. So 1000 or even 10,000 years is just a blink of an eye in geological time. Believe me the Earth will be fine. There is nothing we can do to hurt the Earth. We may just not be able live on it but it will go on just fine without us.

 

[auntie]

After yesterdays failure, of being able to cover the leak with a dome to siphon it out, BP has decided to call in MacGyver. He is going to shoot tires, golf balls, and debris into the whole.
My husband said he's got some duct tape they could borrow.

Very sad, I really do hope they are able to stop this soon.

 

[OK GRUMPY]

I'm a nervous reck! I just heard were the oil has been seen on Daulphin Island near Mobile and it's only days away from hitting our Beautiful Beaches here in the panhandle of Florida. This is really awful!
Thanks for letting me vent!

 

[auntie]

Just terrible.

I also heard it reported earlier this morning that an oily sheen appeared to be on the water reaching shore in the pan handle.

Those poor folks in Louisiana. Looks as if there's more media than any type of help from the government. Both being kind of slow to react in my opinion.

And...we just wait for BP to come up with something. Meanwhile, lives and coastlines are destryoed.

You who....."Daddy...did ya plug the whole yet?"...

Makes ya want to throw up.




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[mom-n-pop42]

I haven't seen it reported in the news media, but oil is in fact biodegradable and is broken down by certain kinds of bacteria. So it will go away eventually, and faster in a hot climate like Louisiana than in Alaska.

 

[des1954]

There was an article in my local paper (Lakeland Ledger) about an even larger oil spill in the Amazon River in the Ecuatorean rain forest. This is not the actual article, but is very similar to our news report.

http://rainforests.mongabay.com/0806.htm

It's enough to make me sick.

If Obama really wanted to be a hero - he would have officials working on an urban/suburban transportation system nationwide, so that everyone would have access to inexpensive transportation. Most smaller cities that I know of here in Florida have no public transportation beyond city limits. People in suburbs or rural areas HAVE to use their cars to get to work. The city I currently live in only has public transportation within the city, with no connections to neighboring cities. If you live outside city limits, you're SOL. My former towns of Sarasota & Bradenton were the same way. Growing up in WNY in the 60's & 70's, I could hop a bus in my little city (N. Tonawanda), and travel to Buffalo, Niagara Falls, and other smaller cities in the area. I've never understood why the cities on the west coast of Florida didn't have the same option. Even Tampa's public transportation is somewhat limited. Instead of bailing out greedy businesses and supporting every illegal immigrant, the $$$ should be spent to develop and build good, reliable, convenient public transportation systems before the price of crude oil forces us to park our cars and give up our jobs.

 

[doombuqqy]

I live in Pensacola and it hit our beaches Friday, what a mess. I apprecite everyone trying to help. I work OT (medical) at the main site and my son was acctivated yesterday laying more boom, we are all gonna do what we can but it is gonna take a long time.

 

[FortWildernessCamper]

Maybe we will find a better way to get our energy needs after this terrible accident.

 

[loveadobie]

I read tonight an article where a UF oceanographer is warning that the oil could get caught up in the Loop Current and actually impact the east coast of FL from Miami up to Jax.

If the oil gets into the Gulf Stream, the oil will go all the way up to Europe. Who knows where it would go from there.

Imagine what European countries would think if they saw our oil (BP is British Petroleum of America) on our shores...



Gosh, this is devastating.