HURRICANE SEASON BEGINS JUNE 1

From Twitter / @femainfocus

Hurricane season starts tomorrow. Make sure you have food, water and
other supplies to last you for at least 3 days.

http://www.ready.gov

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2010 HURRICANE PREDICTION

NOAA is Expecting Very Busy Season



NOAA Hurricane predictions finally came out yesterday:

14 to 23 Named Storms (top winds of 39 mph or higher), including:

8 to 14 Hurricanes (top winds of 74 mph or higher), of which:

3 to 7 could be Major Hurricanes (Category 3, 4 or 5; winds of at least 111 mph)

NOAA NEWS

GOING GOING . . . GONE?

Chalmette, LA - interview, by Green for All, with Vietnamese family
about to lose their dock due to Oil Spill / no fishing season / no
money to pay bills....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dvqa4PGRAg&sns=em

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POTENTIAL IMPACT on OYSTERS

OCEAN SPRINGS  biologist, Dr. Ed Cake, is a South Mississippi oyster biologist studying the potential oilspill impact on oysters...

(Story by Trang Pham-Bui for WLOX - Biloxi)

Link:  http://bit.ly/aBTp32

(via Twitter / @WLOX


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MS WATERS / ISLANDS LOOK GOOD!

Steve Phillips views oil spill from Blackhawk helicopter

By Steve Phillips – 

GULFPORT, MS (WLOX) - DMR "Director Dr. William Walker wanted to show the media how far the oil slick is from the Mississippi Gulf coast. So, he took a group of local reporters and photographers on a Blackhawk helicopter ride, out into the gulf waters to the site of the broken oil well."

See Video and Images with complete story:

http://www.wlox.com/Global/story.asp?S=12516916

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OIL :: IN LA COASTAL WATERS & LAND

NPR REPORT

 

Oil now covers marshy areas near Vevice, La. and other communities are bracing for the worst scenario.

Story by David Schaper / 5-22-2010

"Thick, brown and rust-colored, sticky oil is washing up on the beaches, marshes and wetlands of some parts of southern Louisiana, threatening wildlife and vital habitat."

Read full story and transcript :

http://m.npr.org/story/127054196

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Via Twitter / @GulfOilCleanup
Oil arrives on Louisiana shore, edges into key current...
Link: http://bit.ly/boR2qq
(on Twitter / hashtag is #oilspill )

I realize this pertains to our neighbor, Louisiana, but this is bad
bad bad, for ALL of us! Watched Gov. Jindal riding in small boat out
in the swampy areas and oil was all over the surface.

This IS a REAL Event of enormous proportions of devastation - and
long, long lasting effects --- not just for LA.

TAR BALLS and oily birds ARE on MIssissippi's Barrier Island's!!!
(short video) - http://tinyurl.com/352u912

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OCEAN SPRINGS HOSTS BP MEET-UP

BP community meeting tonight in Ocean Springs

(Tweeted via @WLOX)

The Steps Coalition, in partnership with Ocean Springs, MS and local environmental justice groups, will host:

* BP Oil Drilling Disaster Community Meeting for Information, Question and Answer  

* Wednesday at 6pm 

* Mary C. O'Keefe Cultural Arts Center / Government St.

* Come / ASK questions / VOICE your concerns :: over the OIL SPILL DISASTER 

* Federal representatives will be there to respond

* This meeting is sponsored by:

Steps Coalition 

City of Ocean Springs

Gulf Restoration Network

Gulf Islands Conservancy

Sierra Club

Coastal Women for Change

Asian Americans for Change

MS Coast Interfaith Disaster Task Force

http://www.wlox.com/global/story.asp?s=12463031

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OILSPILL IRRESPOSIBILITY UNCOVERED

From The Times-Picayune

May 10, 2010

NEW DETAILS gathered by Robert Bea, a University of California at Berkeley engineering professor who also investigated the levee breaks after KATRINA.

GAS SURGE shut dowm the well a couple of weeks before the Gulf oil spill:

Firms DEBATED the SAFETY of removing heavy drilling mud.

http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/gas_surge_shut_well_just_weeks.html

[Posted on Twitter from:

http://twitter.com/TweetNOLA ]

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"THE GULF SEEMS TO BE BLEEDING"

This is truly sad. Just scary and deeply heartbreaking. 

BP should stop with the misinformation. Aerial video speaks volumns...

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"The Gulf appears to be bleeding": Latest aerial video of BP #oilspill by Alabama creekkeeper and SouthWings pilot

http://bit.ly/9nRuDQ

Tweeted by:
http://twitter.com/facingsouth/

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BP GAG ORDER - What????

This is the most ridiclous & the most pathetically sick information I think I've yet to receive!!! 

BP HAS RESPOSIBILITIES for their IDIOCY and RECKLESS ACTIONS and INACTIONS! Period!!!

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Sabrina BradfordMay 9, 2010 at 8:40pm who sent this to Facebook group, GULF COAST OIL SPILL VOLUNTEER CLEANUP

Subject: BP GAG ORDER- WE NEED YOUR HELP

BP HAS PLACED A GAG ORDER ON MANY RECOVERY ORGANIZATIONS. MANY STATISTICS REGARDING DEAD WILDLIFE ETC WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED AS A RESULT. THIS EFFORT TO COVER UP AND AS BP SAYS "PROTECT THEM LEGALLY" IS NOT BINDING TO CITIZENS (yet)

IF YOU SEE ANYTHING, GET THE WORD OUT TO THE MEDIA. 

thanks everyone,

sabrina bradford

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MAP :: OIL SPILL PROJECTIONS

BP Oil Drilling Disaster: Latest Spill Projections

http://www.healthygulf.org/blog/bp-s-oil-drilling-disaster-in-the-gulf-of-mexico/

(from Gulf Restoration Network)
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Map projections for Mississippi do not look good.

We cannot have this happen. It's like a bad dream. It can't really be happening. 

The fear and imagery of these projections coming to fruition is beyond comprehention. Long term devastation and massive losses are just too much to take in. 

But reality can be cruel. Katrina proved that for sure as we approach the 5 year anniversary with much still to be done relative to recovery.
 
Oil spill damage involves much, much more and  then, full recovery may not be reached. Just check up on the still-pervading results of the EXXON VALDEZ spill! With those porobabilities in mind, the Gulf Coast faces a truly scary and deeply saddening situation of utmost need for a positive resolution.   

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BP, NO PLAN!? - SOUNDS LIKE KATRINA

Documents Show BP Had No Plan

"Gulf Restoration Network board member and coastal Mississippi based environmental attorney, Robert Wygul, pointed out to us that BP's federally registered plan for the development of this oil field included, and required, no plan to deal with the worst-case scenario. Read the AP article inspired by this report here."

(From GRN Newsletter)

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BP WANTS to STAY CONNECTED

911 board approves BP tower lease for Gulf oil spill response

In order to facilitate clean-up of oil spill which includes communication with / coordination of emergency responders w/ industry & volunteers, "BP is leasing 14 sites from the Texas-Louisiana state line to Pensacola, Fla., to ensure continuous service."

http://blog.gulflive.com/mississippi-press-news/2010/05/911_board_approves_bp_tower_lease.html?utm_source=API&utm_medium=twitter

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TURTLE STRGGLES in SLICK

National Wildlife Federation spots turtle struggling in slick :

http://bit.ly/bkjwZS

(Tweet by @GulfOilCleanup -
http://twitter.com/GulfOilCleanup )
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:: DONATE ::
HERE'S HOW YOU CAN HELP :

http://www.nwf.org/Wildlife/Wildlife-Conservation/Threats-to-Wildlife/Oil-Spill.aspx
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20 DEAD SEA TURTLES on MS BEACHES

via Twitter:
RT @wdsu  20 Sea Turtles Found Dead Along Mississippi Beaches

"At least 20 sea turtles have been found dead this weekend along a 30-mile stretch of Mississippi beaches from Biloxi to Bay St. Louis." - WDSU Gulfport

http://www.wdsu.com/news/23423686/detail.html#

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BOOMS BREAKING in THE BAY

Broken booms worry Hancock County residents

Posted: May 02, 2010 5:40 PMUpdated: May 02, 2010 6:09 PM

(via WLOX - Biloxi)

http://www.wlox.com/global/story.asp?s=12413089

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LEARN TO CLEAN OILED ANIMALS & VOLUNTEER

GULFPORT  HOSTS  TRAINING 

The Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Gulfport held one of what will be many of the required workshops to teach volunteers how to help clean up animals who have gotten into the oil. The training included information on the dangers that volunteers face while working with bio-hazards.   

Please visit the IMMS website to find out how to volunteer and help those who will fall prey to the devastating, deadly OIL SLICK.

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LIGHT SWEET CRUDE - MISNOMER

THE GREAT OIL SPILL in THE GULF of MEXICO

Light - of relatively little weight

 

Sweet - having the taste of sugar;

low in sulfur content : sweet fuel oil.

Crude - being in an unrefined or natural state; raw; 

a dark oil consisting of mainly of hydrcarbons. 

Hydocarbons - Any class of compounds composed only of carbon  hydrogen. Hydrocarbons are principal constituents of petroleum & natural gas, lubricants, & raw materials for production of plastics, fibres, rubbers, solvents, & industrial chemicals. All burn to carbon dioxide and water with enough  oxygen or to carbon monoxide without it.

All but the simplest hydrocarbons have ISOMERS, see isomerism. Ethylene,methane, acetylene, benzene, toluene, & naphthalene are hydrocarbons.

Misnomer - a name unsuitably applied

to something.

 

This oil spill violates the sacred place that is OUR Gulf Coast - the shorelines, the economy, the livlihoods,  the ecology, the life forms that live and breed there, the birds that migrate through, and the people who live and breathe the Gulf. 

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AT THIS TIME - PRAYER IS NEEDED

The OIL SPILL situation is so complicated and issues with it are so variable and unknown that it's easy to feel a helplessness. BUT the people along the coast will persevere to do the things they can do to remediate devastation as much as humanly possible. Other than that, we must call upon God's help.

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From WLOX - Biloxi 

Coastal communities prepare for an oil invasion

Posted: Apr 30, 2010 7:49 PMUpdated: Apr 30, 2010 10:34 PM

BILOXI'S MAYOR HOLLOWAY says it's "out of our hands" and prayers are needed.

http://www.wlox.com/global/story.asp?s=12408263

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