Title: ITS RAINING OIL IN NEW ORLEANS, LA Source:
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ITS RAINING OIL IN NEW ORLEANS, LA.
It's raining oil in New Orleans, La.. Just a few days ago, it was raining oil in Central Texas. You haven't seen anything yet. The damage that is forthcoming from Tropical storms and Hurricanes is going stagger you. Take a good look at EVERYTHING that was covered with OIL that was falling with the rain in Louisiana. Imagine what it is going to look like after a big storm? And then... out come the Sun... and then a match is lite or lightnings strike? Imagine the smell and having to breathe the fumes. Good grief!! Dr. James P. Wicktrom
It is definitely a condensed volatile compound but it is probably not crude.
Crude oil is a composite of many different chemicals, and some would evaporate more readily than others, which I believe is at least one of the basis (basi?) of oil refinement. So what's shown could be the lighter elements that have separated from the crude through evaporation, and then mixing again with air moisture during a rain storm
The video isn't conclusive proof to me as some streets always, of course, have oil on them from cars dripping oil. But if it really does smell like oil everywhere as claimed, then I'd rule out normal oil residue.
There is a lot of doubt that this video is genuine. There's really no reliable corroboration for it.
If it's residue from the street, then indeed, it's not crude. It's refined.
But if, on the outside chance this is oil from the Gulf sucked up from the atmosphere and deposited on the streets of NOLA, then you really can't call it refined, because refined oil is a product engineered to particular specifications.
There is a lot of doubt that this video is genuine.
The video appears to be real. As for oil company claims that rain can't contain oil, there are centuries of stories of frogs, fish, stones and other things coming down in rain storms.
There is a lot of doubt that this video is genuine.
The video appears to be real.
Yeah well, the critical word here is "appears."
There certainly seems to be more oil on the street than you see driven up out of the asphalt where leaky cars are driven after a heavy rain. I've seen similar sights in the desert where I doesn't rain for ten months, and then there's a sudden downpour. But NOLA is not in the desert, and that is a lot of oil showing there. The foamy stuff looks alarming too.
Never-the-blinking-less, look as I might on search sites, I cannot get a grip on any corroboration of this story. I did find some posts on blogs where Florida residents say that rains came with drops of oil that was deposited on their cars, but I can find no back up on what is said to be happening on this video.
Pentane, hexane and heptane have boiling points below 100°C and are liquid at room temperature. These hydrocarbons and others of similar weight might be capable of evaporating with water and condensing with rain, so I don't go along with the blanket debunking of this thing.
What bugs me here is the thing that gets me about this whole disaster, and that's the absence of reliable, authoritative information about what seem to be an emerging life-threatening catastrophe.