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Title: Photo's of the Gulf Oil Spill
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Published: May 26, 2010
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Post Date: 2010-05-26 08:16:39 by Jethro Tull
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The leak is still, well, leaking. There is 30+ days more of this type and volume of oil behind this. 60 miles, at last check, of the most productive deltaic region in the world are fouled. Much of this area is mangrove cane marshes, and cannot be feasibly 'cleaned.' It is unknown how badly this will effect the wildlife, but it is enough to shut down production within Barataria bay, the largest single fisheries area in the state of louisiana. Poster Comment: sorry for the text size.
Entire communities, dependent on these areas for the baseline of their economies, will be summarily affected. Said communities generally encompass the houma-thibideaux and greater new orleans metro areas.
Imagine the midwest without farming. This is what you could very well be looking at. It is not an exaggeration, nor hyperbole. This is the shutdown of roughly 15% of the entire seafood production of the united states. (+50% of Louisiana, which produces roughly 33% of the whole US)
It's not just a terrible incident, it's a clusterfark of gigantic proportions. The well is not capped, and we are approaching what has every indication of being a hyperactive hurricane season whose best analog year is 2005. This is not a guarantee, yet, but the bermuda high has set itself almost exactly the same. SST's are abnormally high, and the only thing stopping formation right now is high sheer leftover from el nino. Heat content in the carribean is already at the level of being able to support a category 3 or above hurricane.
This is already bad. It could get much worse. That's the big picture
A ship maneuvers and sprays water near a rig in heavy surface oil in this aerial view over the Gulf of Mexico May 18, 2010, as oil continues to leak from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead. (REUTERS/Daniel Beltra/Greenpeace) #
A shrimp boat is used to collect oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico in the waters of Chandeleur Sound, Louisiana on May 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) #
Oil is scooped out of a marsh impacted by the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in Redfish Bay along the coast of Louisiana, Saturday, May 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) #
Oil reaches the marshlands on the northeast pass of the Mississippi Delta May 23, 2010. (REUTERS/Daniel Beltra
A BP cleanup worker rakes oil from the beach on May 22, 2010 on Elmer's Island, Louisiana. Authorities closed the popular tourist beach to the public and media wishing to visit the beach must be escorted by a BP official. (John Moore/Getty Images) #
Specks of oil stick onto the foot of Maggie Grace Hurdle, 8, of Rosedale, Louisiana, as she walks along a beach in Grand Isle, Louisiana May 21, 2010. (REUTERS/Sean Gardner) #
An oil-stained pelican leaves its nest as oil washes ashore on an island that is home to hundreds of brown pelican nests as well at terns, gulls and roseated spoonbills in Barataria Bay just inside the the coast of Louisiana, Saturday, May 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) #
An oil-soaked pelican takes flight after Louisiana Fish and Wildlife employees tried to corral him on an island in Barataria Bay on Sunday, May 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) #
Crews try to clean an island covered in oil on the south part of East Bay May 23, 2010. (REUTERS/Daniel Beltra
An outboard boat motor breaks up a thick layer of oil as Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser toured the oil-impacted marsh of Pass a Loutre on Wednesday, May 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) #
A young heron sits dying amidst oil splattering underneath mangrove on an island impacted by oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Barataria Bay, along the the coast of Louisiana on Sunday, May 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) #
A Greenpeace activist steps through oil on a beach along the Gulf of Mexico on May 20, 2010 near Venice, Louisiana.
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#1. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
Thank you Jethro. I've spent most of my free time since becoming an adult in the ocean, near the ocean, or planning our next trip to the ocean. I'm waiting to see what happens when the hurricanes and gulf stream do to this. I really do hope it will desperse.
#3. To: Ragin1 (#1)
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At the rate it is pumping out of the ocean floor, which based on leaked reports coming out is likely at least ten times the volume the government and BP is admitting to, I'm afraid all a hurricane will do is spread the damage farther inland and over a wider expanse. I am trying not to be gloom and doom but this spill is, even if were stopped today, catastrophic in its impact on the gulf. Another 30 to 90 days and it will include the lower Atlantic seaboard as it spreads out via the gulf stream. No, this is now the worst oil catastrophe in human history and it holds the potential to be the last.
That's what I've been thinking. As if things aren't bad enough, we could have this mess placed in a blender and sent to the four corners of the globe. I'm so glad I spent the month of April in S. Florida on the Gulf. I have no idea what it will look like next year.
I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this but, the first hurricane's tidal surge will defeat every single boom and dredged berm protecting coastal beaches, marshes and real estate, and Louisiana, Mississippi, parts of Texas and Florida will then be abandoned or become long term remediation projects, not unlike Chernobyl.
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#10. To: Ragin1 (#1)
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I'm waiting to see what happens when the hurricanes and gulf stream do to this. I really do hope it will desperse.
#12. To: Ragin1, all (#1)
I'm waiting to see what happens when the hurricanes and gulf stream do to this
#15. To: Ragin1, Jethro_Tull, christine, Original_Intent, James Deffenbach (#1)
I'm waiting to see what happens when the hurricanes and gulf stream do to this. I really do hope it will *disburse.
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