In Panama City, they are not anticipating the worst.
But in the counties just to the west, they are not so hopeful.
In Pensacola – Escambia County, the most western in the Panhandle – they pray
And in Louisiana it’s arrived.
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This post was written by bobsikes on May 3, 2010
Volunteers clean up the beach in Pensacola Beach yesterday to make it easier to clean after a potential spill.
Pensacola’s getting the bulk of the booms as Escambia county is considered more at risk than Santa Rosa, Okaloosa and Walton counties.
UPDATE: From The Hayride
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This post was written by bobsikes on May 3, 2010
In a story from the Orlando Sentinel
“For now, heavy applications of the soaplike liquid may be all that stand between the fast-spreading crude and Florida’s coastline, which could be in jeopardy by midweek, , according to projections by response authorities in Roberts, La.
Environmental advocates and scientists consider dispersant the lesser of two evils when faced with what could turn out to be the nation’s worst drilling-related offshore oil spill. And the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency warns that “dispersants used today are less toxic than those used in the past, but long-term, cumulative effects of dispersant use are still unknown.”
Coast Guard and oil-industry officials, however, are desperate to control the slick, which began fouling Louisiana’s Mississippi River delta with a light sheen Friday and spread to within 85 miles or so of Pensacola. Instead of only using airplanes and boats to douse crude with dispersant, cleanup workers have lowered a spray nozzle nearly a mile underwater.
“We are now going to go to a novel, a novel, absolutely novel idea — 5,000 feet below the surface and deploying dispersants on the outflow from the well,” U.S. Coast Guard Rear Adm. Mary Landry said last week.”
Yes, we’re desperate.
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This post was written by bobsikes on May 2, 2010
Booms heading to Okaloosa County - greatest efforts will be made to keep it out of Choctawhatchee Bay
Bay Counties Plan: “Just in case.
Sign-up to volunteer for clean-up Bay County and the Panhandle Chapter of the Red Cross will be coordinating training as well.
Oil slick has tripled in size (photo)
It’s expected on Tuesday or Wednesday in Pensacola. Govenor Crist visited yesterday.
Spill surpassed Valdez disaster yesterday H/T to Mobile Press-Register for useful link to this blogger-SkyTruth.
Maybe there’s “high-risk/high-reward” option to cap the well
36,000 foot boom lowered off Mississippi and Alabama coasts Crews fought off rough seas to get it placed. That’s about 6 miles of boom.
Animation of spill and growth Must see.
BP tells Mississippi it can’t stop it from reaching it’s beaches
Times-Picayune calls on Obama to lead Remember that so much of the narrative on Katrina blamed Bush.
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This post was written by bobsikes on May 2, 2010
From the Pensacola News Journal, whom provided the inspiration for the name of this new category comes details of the plan to protect area beaches from the Gulf oil spill:
“The plan is to use about 30,000 feet of boom —
now at Pensacola Naval Air Station, a staging area
for oil company BP’s response to the slick — and
BP’s resources to set up a “V-shaped” barrier across
East Pensacola Pass to catch the oil.
“Like the old saying goes, ‘Cut it off at the pass,’”
Robertson said.
The hope is that the floating pools of oil coming
into the pass will funnel into the center point of the
“V,” where there will be a “skimmer” or collection
area where the oil can be removed, Turpin said.
The local response plan still had to be approved by
BP officials, Turpin said.”
Why in the world do they need BP’s permission?
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This post was written by bobsikes on May 1, 2010
