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A lot of that is ordinary cloud cover from the summer-like weather patterns that have already settled in. There are no reports of oil within 20+ miles of almost all of the Florida Panhandle.
That’s definitely good to know! Though a major buzzkill on my sensationalist drivel.
Yea I say cloud cover. I got a friend in Orange Beach right now and he said it’s still fine.
Up to now, only tar balls and a sheen of oil had come ashore. But chocolate brown and vivid orange globs and sheets of foul-smelling oil the consistency of latex paint have begun coating the reeds and grasses of Louisiana’s wetlands, home to rare birds, mammals and a rich variety of marine life.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_GULF_OIL_SPILL?SITE=ALOPE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
How long until triathletes/swimmers/races are affected by the spill? Seems like the southern LA coastline is going to get pretty yucky.
Not a ton of racing along the coast of LA because it’s too marshy and lacking in beaches or really much land that’s consistently above sea level.
When I see these pictures I realize that the predictions from the research reports we did in elementary school have come true. Nothing to do with oil, but man, the Mississippi delta is flat out GONE. Where that sliver of a levee shoots out into the gulf, that used to all be land, now it’s water. This is going back only 15 years or so.
Many people in the US would take one quick look at the photo and think, “OMG! The OIL SPILL is heading towards the coast. The fish, the birds, the horror.”
Actually, the ocean in the Gulf ALWAYS looks like that. The water looks like coffee. That’s the water and silt from the Mississippi River flowing OUT into the ocean. The Mississippi River is actually quite powerful.
I live in Houston. Do you know how far Houston is from the mouth of The Mississippi? The ocean water here always looks like brown coffee. You have to go hundreds of miles further south to Padre Island and the tip of Texas before the water is actually blue. Why anyone would swim in the stuff is beyond me.
mmmmm. coffee.
Actually, the ocean in the Gulf ALWAYS looks like that. The water looks like coffee. That’s the water and silt from the Mississippi River flowing OUT into the ocean. The Mississippi River is actually quite powerful.
Have you ever been out that way? From gulf shores to appalachicola as the song goes, the water is very clear and beaches are white sugar.
Now, I am not exactly sure what that picture is showing, apparently that is a lot of clouds and not the water surface.
But it is not true to say the guld is cholocate milk color.
Over in Louisiana and southeast texas, absolutely chocolate milk, played in it many times as a kid.
Also there are alot of muddy rivers between the Mississippi and Houston, all of which contribute to the color of the water. The Atchafalaya represents a significant chunk of the Mississippi flow by itself.