Thank you so much for this post!
Let's not blame this on the Gulf Coast, as BP would have it.
1) It is not a Spill, but a River... an Oil Man River and it jes'keeps rollin' along, which will be the East Coast after it catches the LOOP Current into the Gulf Stream.
2) BP caused this Disaster. It is NOT a Natural Disaster, but a Man-made Disaster.
Please call it:
The BP Oil Disaster.
It is Very Important what we Call This on the Internet. Very Important.
Please do not fall into pushing BP Public Relations.
The Deepwater Horizon Response Web site you cite has no real actionable info, but looks like a virtual PR site with lots of Clean Pictures. The BP Phone Numbers in New Orleans are USELESS.
Good blogs to follow:
-New Orleans Ladder: http://noladder.blogspot.com/
-Gulf Restoration Network: http://www.healthygulf.org/201005061249/blog/bp-s-oil-drilling-disaster-in-the-gulf-of-mexico/oil-hits-chandeleur-chain-14-days-after-view-from-above
-Humid Beings: http://nola.humidbeings.com/
-Louisiana Governor's Office of Homeland Sec and Emergency Prep has much more accurate Forecast Maps than NOAA:
http://gohsep.la.gov/oilspill.aspx
Thank you again
Eiditilla~New Orleans Ladder
The leading edge of the slick fouling the Gulf of Mexico has reached Louisiana, despite the efforts of so many people over the last two weeks to try to halt it.
The technology that contributed to this spill and that has failed so far to stop it is grist for another post — or several posts.
In the meantime, though, if you’d like to track the progress of the spill and the clean-up, there are several Web sites showing pictures and videos of what’s happening. Some of these sites also have information on ways you can help, especially if you’re in the area.
- Google is aggregating pictures and graphs from several other sites — the U.S. Coast Guard, which has been posting a daily update on the spill’s trajectory from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; NASA, which is posting pictures of the spill from space; the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, an environmental group that’s posted a map of the spill that lets you filter its effects on birds, property and so on; and the state of Louisiana. You can also overlay these images and run them in Google Earth for a 3-D effect.
- Here are pictures of the spill posted by an astronaut, Soichi Noguchi, from the International Space Station. You can follow him on Twitter.
- BP and Transocean — two of the companies implicated in the spill — have joined with several federal agencies to create a joint information center, the Deepwater Horizon Response Web site, where you can see a picture gallery of the spill and get news and video updates on what’s happening, along with links to Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. Traffic is brisk, according to NextGov — as of Tuesday, there were 1.3 million page views.
Anything you’d like to add? If so, please post!
