Saturday, June 26, 2010
Oil getting on children playing at beach in Florida.
Look how much oil landed on that beach in just one day.
It can only get much worse from here on out.
BP is going to need a hell of a lot more than 20 billion dollars set aside to cover for the lost income that will result from the closing of all of the beaches along the Gulf coast. When people start seeing these images there will be a mass exodus of tourists from beaches along the coasts of Texas, Louisiana, and Florida.
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Anderson Cooper should get his millionaire butt over to The Redneck Riviera immediately!
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They can call it what they want. It was one of the most beautiful pristine beaches I have ever seen. Water clarity was crystal like for 10-20 feet down.
ReplyDeleteThis is so sad.
If you have never been to Destin Florida you can not imagine how beautiful those beaches were.As a grandmother,I would have removed my grand children from the situation of being coated with oil,not brought along "GOO-GONE" to get it off.
ReplyDeleteWho in their right mind would let their kids go swimming on a beach on the Gulf nowadays? Probably the parents will file a lawsuit because the kid is now traumatized. I feel sorry for the people that live on the Gulf side of Florida and calling them members of the Redneck Riviera just shows ignorance. If anyone has ever gone to Sanibel Island with their beautiful sand would know that it is far from being a Redneck Riviera. Please educate yourself Mr. Orr, before you start insulting the citizens of Florida.
ReplyDeleteThe Toxic Substances Control Act is supposed to be the watchdog for dangerous chemicals. However, since it's inception, 62,000 chemicals were grandfathered without any safety tests.
ReplyDeletethe Environmental Protection Agency plans to put decontamination stations along the beach.
The Escambia County Health Department lifted a health advisory on Pensacola Beach on Friday on the advice of a beach official and against the advice of a federal environmental official.
the health department did not test the water or sand samples before lifting the health advisory. The lifted the advisory on the advice of beach official, W. A. "Buck" Lee, Santa Rosa Island Authority executive director. On Friday, Lee dismissed any notion that the water is unsafe, and said with the daily and hourly changes in water conditions on the beach, he can't wait three days for results of water testing to decide to close or open the beach to swimming.
Letting your children play in water that is infested with carcinogens is a dangerous game to play. You could be shortening the life of your children AND messing up future generations all in one shot.
I really didn't know what to say or write after seeing that video. The destruction of our wilderness is bad enough, but letting children play in it? What is that woman or any of those people thinking? Idiots.
ReplyDeleteKids swallow a little bit of water when they play in it, even salt water. Every parent who has taken kids to the beach knows this, and often have to deal with the tummy aches, vomiting or infections that follow. Are these mothers and fathers even considering that the little gulps of water that get into their kids mouths, or up into the little noses or ears may contain globs of oil that could dissolve and seep into their kids?
ReplyDeleteGees, our skin absorbs oils. Don't they realize that's why we buy moisturizers an creams? The skin on our feet is susceptible to absorption not just our faces and hands; why aren't they wearing shoes when walking on a polluted beach - shoes they could wash off before getting back to their rooms or cars? Even washing off the feet will allow the water cleaning off the oil to seep into the water table if done outside and into the sewage and water treatment system if done inside.
Even the guy taping the scene was barefoot. He wasn't applying the danger he saw to himself!
Go home people. Call and complain and demand that these beaches be cleaned and protected or closed.
We have a friend who has family who own a beach house on the Gulf House. They worked in the region and paid over a million dollars for that house not too long ago. Unfortunately, they lost their jobs due to their employer being hit by the loss of business after the spill. They found new jobs hundreds of miles away and found housing where the new jobs are.
ReplyDeleteThey can't afford to pay two mortgages or even the one mortgage and rent. So, they are trying to sell the beach house.Problem is, the Realtor told them they would be lucky to get two hundred thousand for it and suggested they rent it instead, but they cannot find anyone who will rent it until the danger is past. Who knows how long that will take?
They have used up their retirement savings to try and keep health insurance and pay for both places. They cannot find cheaper housing in their new location.
Just another personal tragedy in the overwhelming environmental and economy tragedy that has been caused by risky experimental deep sea drilling. Yet, Palin goes on screeching about how we must drill, the Governors of LA and MS keep on preaching and praying for more drilling. When, when, when will they learn?
I keep wondering when someone is going to yell at dufuss types like Bobby Jindal who say drilling has to continue, to protect the jobs of the oil workers. What about the jobs of everyone ELSE this is affecting??? They don't count, I suppose, as they don't work for huge multinational companies who buy and sell congressional officials.
ReplyDeleteThere would be less oil if the Great Obama would deploy all the barges and skimmers available.
ReplyDeleteHoly shit. Fuck you BP!!!!!
ReplyDeleteGood point, roger. I wish someone in the media would pounce and pound upon the point that these jobs may be local, but the profits go to multinational corporations who pay little or no tax. That's really being patriot - accepting the dribbles in terms of wages and benefits and letting the big money go overseas.
ReplyDeleteYou're right about the bought and paid for Congressional Reps and Senators who support the oil companies (or are supported by the oil companies). But don't forget about the Gulf Governors and one special half-Gov from AK.
Jindal, Barbour and Palin are false patriots shilling for the multinationals, and least one of them is too stupid to realize it. The other two don't care as long as their campaigns get funded by contributions from those corps.
Roger @ 5:20 said
ReplyDelete"I keep wondering when someone is going to yell at dufuss types like Bobby Jindal who say drilling has to continue, to protect the jobs of the oil workers. What about the jobs of everyone ELSE this is affecting??? They don't count, I suppose, as they don't work for huge multinational companies who buy and sell congressional officials."
IMO, Bobby Jindal cares less about the oil workers and more about protecting his a*s with the oil companies. That plus he sees an opportunity to grandstand against POTUS - yell for help while he lets his National Guardsmen sit idle.
Those stupid women brought Goo-Gone. OMG. I wouldn't go anywhere near a beach with oil on it and I sure wouldn't let kids near it. Nobody seems to know what's in the dispersants. I live 4 miles in from the Gulf and I'm concerned about the air quality from both the oil and the dispersants. Our beaches down here in the Tampa Bay area are okay now but for how long?
In defense of Mr Orr, the whole area, even as far as Myrtle Beach, has been called the redneck riviera for ages. I don't think that he meant it to be rude or insensitive. Everyone calls it that.
ReplyDeleteTo the people who seemed to have taken offense at my use of the common slang term, The Redneck Riviera, did you read the linked article I wrote several weeks ago when the tarballs first landed on Santa Rosa Island? Maybe you have not read the several books about the area that I have, either. I have been to the island a number of times, and the term I used is one of endearment. The area has been called that for decades.
ReplyDeleteGryphen you said:
ReplyDelete"When people start seeing these images there will be a mass exodus of tourists from beaches along the coasts of Texas, Louisiana, and Florida."
The oil hasn't really hit the Texas beaches too badly yet. But it has affected the beaches of both Mississippi and Alabama, both of which you neglected to mention. Texas has been hit just a little bit, in the east. But that area isn't a big tourist and beach draw for Texas.
Alabama and Mississippi have significant tourism in their beach areas and are definitely being hit by this oil disaster. Please don't forget about them.
When I was a kid (in the early 60s) there was a oil spill off of Long Beach, California. We were staying at a cabin on Seal Beach (just south of Long Beach). My Dad had been surf fishing. When he walked up to the cabin he had oil-coated legs (up to his knees). He did not know about the spill and it wasn’t until he walked out of the water that he realized he was covered in oil. My Dad grew up near Seal Beach and had never seen anything like it.
ReplyDeleteMy Mom told us kids to "STAY AWAY FROM THE SURF LINE!" Did we listen, no we ran down to the water. Needless to say our back-sides were burning for a while (after Mom got a hold of us).
I don’t remember what she used to get the oil off of us but it hurt like Hell and it took weeks for the stain to completely come off our legs.
Watching these negligent parents with their children is incomprehensible to me.
Just the beginning folks. Let's see what this storm stirs up and disperses. $20 Billion will not begin to cover it.
ReplyDeleteI fear this is our Chernobyl. Mental and physical illnesses. Dead zones. Areas unable to recover. Loss of sea life, wild life and human life for decades to come... all for a fast buck.
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