Turn on Cspan!!! Tour of the Gulf, with local folks.

[dixiegrrrrl]

Showing the area, talking about BP.

[pinstikfartherin]

1. Wish I was near a TV right now..

[Angry Dragon]

2. For us without tv could you write about what is said and shown

a little later ............ Thank you

[gateley]

3. Thanks - what's in the cup that guy is holding? And, is that just dark water

they're on, or water with oil? (Trying to determine what is causing the color)

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Oil.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. ok...here is what they are saying.

They are interviewing one guy, talking about how he replaced his shrimp after Katrina.
He has slight Cajun accent, difficult to understand.
About help form BP: " got one check, it helped a little bit" Says did not get enough to make up for what he got in shrimping.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. ":Our way of life is gone"

"How's he gonna provide?"
"Everything we have worked for and gained is gone"
"Might as well having a fishing rod with no hook, any fish he catches in the future will be
contaminated"
"It will take 30 years or more for this area to come back"
the fish are dead
the oysters are dead
the shrimp are dead

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. Interviwing people in Grand Bayou community.

The man is pointing to all the boats tied up, telling who owns them, all members of the
community, relatives, close knit community.
Destroyed.

shrimper talking about a stretch of marsh, talking about the oil covered all of the marsh.
Behind him, the edges of the marsh are black and dead, the is broken boom lying around, ineffective.
Camera catches a dolphin in front of the boat.

Woman, rosina Phillips, asking how their lives can be maintained now.
They have no future, their whole way of life is gone.

aaaand that is all, Cspan just cut off to something else to James Lee Whitt, former
FEMA director under Clinton.

[mirrera]

8. Link?

[dixiegrrrrl]

10. As I said in the OP, it was on Cspan.

You can always watch Cspan online, btw.
Cspan.org.

[Angry Dragon]

9. Thank you for the transcript

[dixiegrrrrl]

12. There are hundreds of little communities on the shoreline

from E. Texas to Fla. which go back as far as 7 generations, and suddenly their whole means of
subsistence has been destroyed, for them and for future generations.
During a Depression, with little option for other jobs.
Certainly they will have to move, either for job seeking, or because the air and water are getting more toxic.
And nobody seems to give a damn.

I cry a lot these days.

[Angry Dragon]

13. Well ......... I do give a damn

The people in power are the ones that seem to not sense
what is really happening
They have spent too much time not living in the real world
to understand what the average person goes through
in their day to day life.
No connection to reality

[cwydro]

11. k and R