Thursday, April 29, 2010
OIL SPILL MAY HAVE REACHED LOUISIANA COAST
From WWL-TV:
VENICE, La. -- Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser said based on his observations from a Coast Guard helicopter just a short while ago, the spill could be hitting the Mississippi River Delta now.
Responders played beat the clock Thursday, trying to get as much containment boom out in the marsh before the oil hits the Louisiana coast.
According to the Coast Guard, all of the oil spill fighting equipment they could muster is now on the Gulf Coast being deployed as soon as it hits the dock.
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It is horrifying and tragic.
ReplyDeleteToday I saw a retweet that said "anyone who said or cheered for 'drill baby drill' should have to go to Gulf for clean-up duty."
The poor Gulf, it is so wrong.
Fran, that's an excellent retweet. Tell 'em!
ReplyDeleteI've been following the latest on the spill. Let's hope someone in the RNC realizes they need to remove that statement from their platform and speeches!
ReplyDeleteLike the Okefenokee burning, but this wasn't, in the end, an accident.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry, Mimi. All I can do is pray, but I'm-a-doin' it!
(And if one of those religious freaks says it's God's judgment, I'm going to ask the Dalai Lama to go smack him in the face with a prayer wheel!)
I was thinking the same thing, Fran. I'm betting Sarah Palin will do a "fly over" - an official visit in her role as President of the Republican Right Wing Nuts. She's making way more money now than if she had actually been elected.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, prayers for all y'all in LA and the Gulf Coast. This is horrifying to watch.
Prayers for the coast and all the creatures living there.
ReplyDeleteI'm in hiding right now, Mimi (trying to catch up from vacation) but I had to come over and tell you that I'm praying too.
ReplyDeleteThis makes me sick to my stomach...
O God.... no.
ReplyDeleteI'm waiting now for a live feed of a press conference about the oil spill on WWL-TV out of New Orleans.
ReplyDeleteI think of the 11 men who died and their families, and I think of those who make their living from the bounty of the Gulf. And I think of the birds, some of whom are nesting, and the animals raising little ones.
Thank you for all the prayers.
Not a good situation.
ReplyDeleteAwful, I wish there was something I could do besides pray.
ReplyDeleteThe feds are here now, en masse. Interior, Homeland Security, EPA, but it seems the leadership was a little late to realize the gravity of the situation.
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