the oil slick is coming....
 

The oil slick will hit our beloved Louisiana coast soon.
Pray that they can clean this up quickly for the animals,
plants and us......and the rest of the coast.
bizi

Huffington post showed a satellite picture of the oil -- !
 

This really stinks.
BP is a terrible oil company with a lousy safety record. (In Texas they call it the company that kills people.)

And the well at the bottom of the water is not capped yet -- more oil is coming.

I'm so freeking mad at our government for
1) not having better safety enforcement in place
and
2) not having developed a big enough and fast enough response to the crisis.


M.

It is a scary situation not only for people, ocean and aquatic life, it means higher gas prices, and huge clean up cost.
The only thankful thing is that it is not anywhere as large as the Valdez catastrophe. If that can be called a good thing.

I hope the wind changes and carries it out, maybe they can burn it off...then pollute the air ????

I can understand your concerns ladies. :(

I've been watching the news about the oil slick from here in Australia, and it really upsets me to think what might happen to the environment because of it.

Just recently we had something similar here in Australia when a foreign tanker took an illegal short cut through the Great Barrier Reef, but ran aground and tore a hole in the boat's hull. Oil spilled out and they're still trying to clean the oil from the coral, and trying to prevent large areas of this beautiful reef from dying.

I hope the current spill can be cleaned up quickly without much damage, but I wish there was some way we could prevent the spills to start with.

I'll be watching the news closely.

i have been watching cnn but think i want to stop. it is so heart breaking.
boy we really know how to destroy things.
bobby

This is unpardonable
 

What an absolutely horrific tragedy!

It's too close to home for comfort. It always seems like such disasters happen in far away places but this is close to home. I can only imagine how bad it has you feeling.

barbra

EPA and air quality
 

Dear Bizi,

The news is telling us that the EPA is monitoring the air quality in New Orleans and that folks might have to be evacuated.

Is there a smell from the oil and the wind gusts now?
They say that tomorrow will be windy.

Can you give updates if you are up too it?
I hope that you are safe.

M.

Things sound like there is a turn for the worse on this, I was so hoping the optimism they had earlier would pan out.
keeping you all on the coast in my prayers
Di

At this point it is a wait and see what happens...there is not a quick fix to this......we are going to be dealing with this issue a long time unfortunately.
bizi