• Oil has now reached powerful Loop Current, Destination: FLORIDA
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I live in Louisiana, and you can smell oil outside. It's not as bad anymore, but it still sucks. My poor yummy crawfish will die. :saddowns:
Every few days this has gone by BP keeps trying to downplay the issue as they try and try again with their failed attempts to stop it. But at any rate this will really only be severely harmful on the gulf states, particularly on the fishing/shrimping industries in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, as well as the industries that rely on those.
[QUOTE=Obama Yo Momma;22049447]You West Coast FloridaFags are goners. It's all sunny and blue water here on the east coast.[/QUOTE] I think you mean green water.
[QUOTE=d3450;22048147]Poor coral reefs, surely it's detrimental to them.[/QUOTE] The gulf really has no coral reefs that will be effected. Not until it gets around Florida. In which case this will be bad. The reefs are already dealing with acidification and general temperature change, this will not help at all.
Holy shit good thing I live on the east coast.
[QUOTE=CodeMonkey3;22048553]What have coral reefs ever done for me?[/QUOTE] Coral Reefs are the rain forests of the ocean. Equally, if not more important for the survival of the planet than the rain forests as well.
[QUOTE=radioactive;22049406]Can't we set it on fire?[/QUOTE] The Coast Guard has tried controlled burining. The only problem is that the conditions have to be perfect for it, or else it won't work or it could blow onto the land.
[QUOTE=The_Fly56556;22048696]Wow, this is getting pretty big. I thought it'd blow over in a few days.[/QUOTE] [img]http://www.facepunch.com/image.php?u=260986&dateline=1274236750[/img]
[QUOTE=Jund;22051333]I still say we should nuke it. Jokes aside, BP is still pretty pissy about accepting outside help.[/QUOTE] No. To much potential risk to the other 3000 rigs in the gulf, and the pipelines and other blowout preventors that cover the floor.
Oh no the old people!
[QUOTE=Kinversulath;22055294]The Coast Guard has tried controlled burining. The only problem is that the conditions have to be perfect for it, or else it won't work or it could blow onto the land.[/QUOTE] The USCG was burning the surface oil. The majority of it is in a milky sludge below the surface. [editline]09:36PM[/editline] Man this is a tough thread to keep up with.
Welp, there goes my Marine Biology trip to the keys next year.
last time I checked, 1/5th of the coast of mexico is blocked from fishing, when before when it had just started, only 7% was blocked off, but that was this morning, maybe it went up [editline]10:18PM[/editline] this is just another thing to add to the list of things going wrong with the world until 2012. but for real, things have just been getting bad fast, like 3 kids in my area have died recently, kids too, not old people, and all the earthquakes, obama being president, now this, its gotta be an omen, probly not 2012, but that we aint treating the world right so she is fighting back
[QUOTE=Ishmael12;22055440]Welp, there goes my Marine Biology trip to the keys next year.[/QUOTE] College Student? What school? [editline]10:30PM[/editline] [QUOTE=shatteredwindow;22055501]last time I checked, 1/5th of the coast of mexico is blocked from fishing, when before when it had just started, only 7% was blocked off, but that was this morning, maybe it went up [editline]10:18PM[/editline] this is just another thing to add to the list of things going wrong with the world until 2012. but for real, things have just been getting bad fast, like 3 kids in my area have died recently, kids too, not old people, and all the earthquakes, obama being president, now this, its gotta be an omen, probly not 2012, but that we aint treating the world right so she is fighting back[/QUOTE] Or maybe it's just a poorly maintained blowout preventer in a depressingly neglected ocean.
Man, I feel my bad for my family. The economy probably gonna go to hell down there. It's already bad enough, but the beaches were what people came to see.
drill baby drill
Dammit, I was planning on going fishing in the Keys this summer, too. Fucking oil rigs.
[img]http://i28.tinypic.com/x0y239.gif[/img] [b]Destination: [i]FLORIDA[/i][/b] Meh, I never go to the beach, and I don't go fishing, and all the seafood I eat comes from out of state so the only way this will affect me is tax-wise.
East Coasters are chillin and fucking bitches while the West Coasters are busy bathing in some oil.
[QUOTE=AustinM;22056896]East Coasters are chillin and fucking bitches while the West Coasters are busy bathing in some oil.[/QUOTE] If I want beach I'll just drive over to daytona or cocoa for the weekend
In fact, companies should just start laying out the barriers around the keys and all the reef zones to get ready. No use in waiting for it to hit before you prepare.
[QUOTE=AustinM;22056896]East Coasters are chillin and fucking bitches while the West Coasters are busy bathing in some oil.[/QUOTE] Did you forget your cardinal compass? [code] N ↑ W←☺→E ↓ S [/code]
Instead of nuking it... Why not get up close ,and 500 pound bomb it?
[QUOTE=Richard Simmons;22057275]Did you forget your cardinal compass? [code] N ↑ W←☺→E ↓ S [/code][/QUOTE] I think he's talking about the West and East coasts of Florida. He'll sure be surprised when the current whips the oil around Florida to cover both coasts though.
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