BP oil spill could make Gulf hurricane season 'devastating'

[Faygo Kid]

Source: Christian Science Monitor

The 2010 Atlantic hurricane season opens today, and with it concerns over the effect the BP oil spill could have on coastal ecosystems if a major storm moves into the northern Gulf of Mexico and reaches land.

On one hand, hurricane forecasters and federal emergency officials say the first concern in any hurricane that makes landfall will be people. Yet healthy wetlands along the Gulf Coast – mainly west of the Mississippi Delta – are widely seen as a first line of defense against the storm surges tropical cyclones push ahead of them.

Marshes in and around the Delta region are already under assault. Sea levels are rising, and the widespread use of levees along the Mississippi River has starved the wetlands of fresh sediment the

If oil from the Deepwater Horizon blowout invades the wetland soils, it can kill off marsh grasses at the roots, increasing the rate of erosion, ecologists say. With chemical dispersants mixed in, the brew also would be toxic to small marine animals that form a vital part of a marsh's food chain. . .

Read more: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0601/BP-oil-spill-could-make-Gulf-hurricane-season-devastating

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The sense of doom here is profound. I'm no scientist, but it feels like we are pretty much down to miracles now.

[mikelgb]

1. strike that, reverse it

[TatonkaJames]

2. Could ?

They are predicting 20 storms this season. If only one of those was a CAT 4, coastal towns will be awash in oil.
The marshes may be cleaned up and washed by sand and tide, who knows ?
Sen Bobby Jindal is talking so fast ya can't keep up with his demands, most of which are wasteful with the hurricane
season coming. As a fisherman and seeing the sand replenishing wash away into the sea year after year each winter by
Nor Easters, Mother Nature will do what it wants and those sand barriers will be gone before the outer edge of one hits.
However the mess from the oil inland will make it a threefold disaster for the residents, oil spill, hurricane and oil inland
to deal with along with power outages. Could there be anymore crap thrown their way ? Jeez, give it a break Mother Nature !
Those good people need one.
And Congress has taken its recess or should I say District Work Period. Unbelievable, a bunch of guys who work what, 100 days a year ?
Such admirable....admirable, uh, no, not admirable at all. Errand boys for the corporations who put them there. Eff them.

[highplainsdem]

3. In Gulf states, oil spill darkens fears this hurricane season

Source: CNN

In Gulf states, oil spill darkens fears this hurricane season
By Rich Phillips, CNN
June 1, 2010 10:19 p.m. EDT


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"We don't want to scare anybody, but we need to be realistic about it," said Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser.

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He fears a strong hurricane coming in from the oil-soaked Gulf would "blanket all of south Louisiana, not only killing the marsh, but contaminating where we sit right now, the football field, the high school, so it wouldn't just be a cleanup from water. ... I don't know if we'd ever clean it up," he said.

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"So keep in mind, as you're around your home, the thought that if you evacuate, you may be coming back not to a flooded home, but to a home that is completely contaminated with this oil," said Nungesser.

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"Any tropical system can create a black wave that will be remembered for several generations," said retired Army Gen. Russel Honore, who commanded the U.S. response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

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Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/06/01/oil.spill.hurricane.season/?hpt=C1

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[djp2]

5. ....it became like the blood of a dead man....

Read this coment on thehill.com

Revelation 16:The second angel poured his bowl into the sea, and it became like the blood of a dead man, and every living thing died that was in the sea.

http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/100049-unchecked-oil-flow-would-cause-disaster-heretofore-unseen-by-humanity

[djp2]

6. Every picture I see the oil is RED

Big globs of Brownish RED , not BLACK oil....Is this normal?

[Lagomorph]

7. Our first 10W40 hurricane....nt