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Title: One of the most heartbreaking things I've ever seen
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Published: Jun 7, 2010
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Post Date: 2010-06-07 14:22:56 by christine
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A brown pelican is seen on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast
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#1. To: christine (#0)
Hideous. When does it stop?
"The 'uniter' has brought the entire world together - to despise and deride us." lodwick
you're in FL, Bub, what's your opinion on its chances for missing this thing?
wetlandjack has it: "... but it is highly dependent on the currents." (And hurricanes). As you know, it already has been found on beaches up in Florida's panhandle. Everybody's a wreck, worrying; it takes years for oil to dissipate. Even 10-15 years after WWII, we saw it on S.E.Fla.beaches from oil tankers torpedoed off Miami Beach
"The 'uniter' has brought the entire world together - to despise and deride us." lodwick
let's pray there's no hurricane in the gulf this season...
How many hurricanes will hit the U.S. this year? By Adam Hadhazy e-mail print comment 0diggsdigg AccuWeather.com, a private weather forecasting organization, has released its predictions for this year's impending hurricane season. The good news? Half as many tropical storms in the Atlantic as last year are expected to slam U.S. shores this year. The bad news? That’s still four tempests making landfall between June 1 and November 30, the annual Atlantic hurricane season. The projected dip stems from, among other factors, a weak El Nino weather pattern this year caused by warmer water temps in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, Joe Bastardi, AccuWeather's chief long range and hurricane forecaster, told Reuters. Bastardi’s predictions and other hurricane outlooks can influence prices on the energy market, especially in regard to Gulf Coast storms such as Katrina, Rita, and Ike (three of the biggest storms to roll through the region in recent years). That's because offshore oil and gas production in the Gulf region account for 25 and 15 percent of U.S. domestic output, respectively, Reuters reports, and 43 percent of U.S. oil refining capacity is in states ringing the Gulf. In total, Bastardi predicts that 13 named storms – those that reach tropical storm status with 63 mile-per-hour (101 kilometer-per-hour) sustained wind speeds – will roil the Atlantic this year. Of that, eight will cross the 74 mile- (199 kilometer-) per-hour threshold and become full-fledged hurricanes. Two of those are expected to be major storms of Category 3 or above on the Saffir-Simpson Scale, meaning sustained winds of at least 111 miles (179 kilometers) per hour. Wondering what monikers this year’s slew of storms will be given? Not sure. But names you won't hear this year or any other include those originally bestowed on hurricanes that ended up causing widespread damage. (Think: Katrina and Rita – but not Ike, at least not yet.) Others on the list of retired names kept by the World Meteorological Organization: Floyd (set aside in 1999); the trio of 2007 storms, Dean, Felix, Noel; Hattie (retired in 1961); Fifi (hung up in 1974); and Roxanne (1995).
This is the 2010 forecast, I think: 2010 Hurricane Season Will Be More Active, Joe Bastardi Predicts Apr 8, 2010; 5:30 PM ET Share | AccuWeather.com Hurricane Center meteorologists, led by Chief Long-Range Meteorologist and Hurricane Forecaster Joe Bastardi, are calling for a much more active 2010 season with above-normal threats on the U.S. coastline. "This year has the chance to be an extreme season," said Bastardi. "It is certainly much more like 2008 than 2009 as far as the overall threat to the United States' East and Gulf coasts." Bastardi is forecasting seven landfalls. Five will be hurricanes, and two or three of the hurricanes will be major landfalls for the U.S. He is calling for 16 to 18 tropical storms in total, 15 of which would be in the western Atlantic or Gulf of Mexico, and therefore a threat to land. In a typical season, there are about 11 named storms, of which two to three impact the coast of the United States.
Expropriate British Petroleum.
I've rescued a brown pelican once that I found on the beach. Took a fish hook out of him and he was just thrilled. He took off like nobody's business. These are some of my favorite birds. Spectacular aerial navigators and fishermen. BTW, speaking of Gulf 'canes, some of the long-range models are looking for a western Caribbean low to form in about 10 days. Some of the solutions look like they want to take this as a tropical storm pretty much straight north where we least want to see it. I'm gonna be watching this. It is not an unlikely scenario this time of year.
Expropriate British Petroleum.
This is what we brilliant, gifted visionaries call, "very very bad". An extremely violent hurricane season combined with impossible-to-remediate oil and emulsion (stored in marshes and ponds for The Devil's use) has the potential for damage yet unimagined. It may be necessary to repair (or total) everything white and rip out everything that the ungodly smell can permeate. Picture a wind-driven, horizontal rain/oil combo getting under the soffits and places where no amount of pressure washing will remove the smell. We *sports have a word for this; SUX! *Organisms or part that show an unusual or singular deviation from the normal or parent type; mutation.
The only way it would bother me is if it was a pug. Then I would KILL.
For it is not the wolf or any of the other beasts that would join the contest in any noble danger, but rather a good man. — Aristotle, Politics, Book IIX
If the poor critter was in distress it could have starved to death before the tiniest carbon steel hook rusted away. It's always good to read about such rescues, that is, those with happy endings.
Yeah, the bird was shuddering and shaking and incapable of doing the instinctive thing, taking off at my approach, which allowed me to see what was wrong with him. Once I liberated him from the nasty fish hook in his hide, he blasted right off. It was a thrill for me too.
Expropriate British Petroleum.
One of the most heartbreaking things I've ever seen
#2. To: Bub (#1)
#3. To: christine (#2)
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#4. To: christine (#2)
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#5. To: wetlandjack, Bub (#3)
#6. To: christine (#5)
let's pray there's no hurricane in the gulf this season...
#7. To: HOUNDDAWG (#6)
#8. To: christine (#0)
#9. To: randge, James Deffenbach, christine, wakeup, bluegrass, Pinguinite (#7)
...the 2010 forecast,
#10. To: christine (#0)
#11. To: randge (#8)
I've rescued a brown pelican once that I found on the beach. Took a fish hook out of him and he was just thrilled.
#12. To: HOUNDDAWG (#11)
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