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Oil leak in Gulf is 5 times worse now. 210K gallons a day leaking into the Gulf.
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04-29-2010, 05:51 PM | #106 |
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I live in Houston & have been surfing in Freeport / Surfside (30 miles south west of Galveston) when that stuff comes in - it's not fun. Not during the actual slick, but a few days before the thing comes ashore. Usually, millions of little tar balls at various depths, mostly at the top to about a foot below the surface. Then as sand / salt etc. get picked up by it, they sink. Once ashore it all just sits there or sinks, till they scrape it off and it blocks the stuff trying to come ashore. The deal is it takes years to go away.There was a time in the 80's when anyone who went to a beach, along the upper TX coast, would get tar on them somewhere. Shame too because lately the TX beaches have been very clean. The only "good" thing is the slick is not coming towards the TX coast because of the winds and currents this time of year, but it can change at any time. Feel sorry for the folks and the wildlife who will endure it.
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Oil spill pictures from space
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archi...9/2289663.aspx
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Pentagon sending C-130's to dump chemicals on the oil slick
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010...ulf-oil-slick/ Defense Secretary Robert Gates has authorized two C-130 aircraft to be used as part of the Department's effort to get at the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said Friday the C-130s are part of the 910th Airlift Wing, which is a reserve unit based in Youngstown, Ohio. The planes are equipped with what is known as the Modular Aerial Spray System (MASS), the same chemical the Coast Guard is using on the oil slick. The 910th will stage its mission our of Lake Charles, La. Morrell said the planes are able to treat approximately 250 acres per flight and they expect each aircraft to fly three flights per day in support of the Homeland Security-led operation. Gates gave a verbal "go ahead" to launch the aircraft, Morrell said. This is in addition to Navy assets being sent to assist.
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It's a known fact that every major civilization throughout time had their demise due to the depletion of their natural resources. In most cases, wood. The middle east used to have plush forests until they used all the trees and decimated the land.
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I like squirrels. They got any squirrels down on the coasts?
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thats for everyone. You arn't N00bs, you know the rules. No politics in the lounge.
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