Guard watches coast for oil slick's first wave

I hear ya, my wife and I love to vacation in Florida in the Clearwater area. We were there a week before all this mess started. Those beaches are so beautiful. To think of the environment and wildlife there being ruined by this is so depressing.

Priceless!!!! Worth more than all the oil in under the Gulf, well what's left of it anyway.

This is the scariest model I've seen yet. Florida could easily be totally engulfed on both coasts. Without their beaches and fisheries, Florida is done. Not to mention what's already happening to Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Looks like NC and SC are going to be affected as well.

This thing is going to alter the entire Gulf and a large portion of the eastern seaboard for many years. I really could cry.

Ocean currents likely to carry oil along Atlantic coast | UCAR (http://www2.ucar.edu/news/ocean-currents-likely-to-carry-oil-spill-along-atlantic-coast)

Priceless!!!! Worth more than all the oil in under the Gulf, well what's left of it anyway.

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This is the scariest model I've seen yet. Florida could easily be totally engulfed on both coasts. Without their beaches and fisheries, Florida is done. Not to mention what's already happening to Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Looks like NC and SC are going to be affected as well.

This thing is going to alter the entire Gulf and a large portion of the eastern seaboard for many years. I really could cry.

Ocean currents likely to carry oil along Atlantic coast | UCAR (http://www2.ucar.edu/news/ocean-currents-likely-to-carry-oil-spill-along-atlantic-coast)

Someone tried this scare tactic earlier, but scientists from Florida University and even people from the Coast Guard have disputed this. The NOAA doesnt see the spill taking this path. For one thing, the current does not move that quickly, and secondly, judging by current maps of the so called "loop current", the current begins to pull eastward after it gets around Miami, and this would pull oil towards europe, not towards the northeastern US. Too many people have already disputed this map. Nothing more than media scare mongering.

For this to even be a possibility, the flow would have to go uncontained for at least 3 more months.....but.....but this is BP we are talking about.....oh shit

BreakingNews

Update: BP's chief operating officer says containment cap placed over leaking Gulf well has been collecting some oil - TODAY 12 minutes ago via breakingnews.com

finally figured out how to siphon, huh. This is analagous to a coke head who accidentally sneezes while they are about to do a line, and now they got their straw down on the floor. LOL!!!

mmm Those birds look delicious, covered in chocolate. Chocolate Pelican anyone? Oops my fault this should go in the dinner thread.

some really sad shit here, just pisses me off

Caught in the oil - The Big Picture - Boston.com (http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/06/caught_in_the_oil.html)

The siphon is only taking 1000 barrels a day....hardly a fix....the worst is yet to come.

This is really heartbreaking.