Oil and Water Don't Mix-Updated Day 74

PLEASE CLICK ON THE ABOVE PICTURE DAY 74 .. NO MORE PHOTOS ALLOWED OF WILDLIFE AND BEACHES, WORKERS TOLD NOT TO SPEAK TO MEDIA OR RISK LOSING JOBS!

Update... As you all know nothing is changing ... people are in dire straights. One man shot himself... The pictures of the birds I have seen recently make a person sick. I could have been a seabird. You could have. Humankind has no mercy these days. I am sorry Waters, sea life, man and woman. I would fix this if I could.
All I can do is look in horror and pray. I wonder so many times about the Bibles prophecies of God returning to destroy the earth to make it new... as in my thinking it will be this earth, only new... but seems before he gets here we will destroy ourselves. He gave us a brain and free will and we did not use them for good it seems in so many cases.
Just my opinion.



I am sick and sad deep within my heart and soul. The fish are dying the birds barely flying, their feathers slick with oil ... waddling helplessly on the Gulf shores.. the beaches eroded.
Sand swollen and black. What are they doing? What can be done? It looks like a huge
black cloud shooting up through the waters. It is sad to see the sea life in such pain.

As a child we went to the Gulf of Mexico each Summer. Usually we would go to Galveston.
I loved it.. I remember it like yesterday.. the sun, sand, crabs, sea birds and the pier when I spent most of my time when I was not in the water. The salty water burned your chest if you were caught in a wave...but it was worth it.

I can't go there now .. The fisherman cannot make money to support their families. No beach picnics. No 'crabbing'. Just a huge oil slick from Louisiana to Florida. Dirty and foul .. the pelicans have no food.. the fish died , or are dying. The people are baffled, what can they do? Oil has been the reason for so much agony .... ! So many deaths.. from humans to sea and land animals. I wonder what they think of humans?

I don't know if they can fix this one .. please pray for the people and animals ...
It is honestly enough to make a grown man cry.. Oil and water do not mix!
This is an atrocity .. with a capital A.

Day 60... no solution... most of the Gulf Coast polluted dead sea life .. much more.. now the finger pointing games begin... Obama goes to the coast to tell the people, 'not to worry' and say all the right stuff....uh huh ...

Read this today... how true.

View full sizeJD Crowe 6/23/10

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Down here on the Gulf, we've got our hands full battling the oil spill disaster that's killing our economy. 

Our drowning tourism and seafood industries are just the tip of the Romaine (our good restaurants don't use iceberg) lettuce of businesses that are already suffering.

How could it get any worse?

Don't look now, but there's a breeze blowin'  off the southwestern tip of Africa.

Board up the windows and grab your ankles, folks. It's hurricane season. How does oil mix with water and wind? This is Alabama. All bets are off.

J.D. has got that right!

Reviews

[Coyote Poetry]

I was in the first Gulf war. My unit assisted in the cleanup of the large oil spill. It was very sad. In my 9 months i saw no living bird or fish in that water. Somebody screwed up. This oil spill should not of happen. Someone should of been inspecting the equipment. It should be a way to stop the flow.. What fool would create a pressure it can't stop. A easy answer. The greedy oil companies too cheap to pay Texas for oil at a fair cost. This is a very terrible thing. Everyone in the America's should be pissed off.Strong and true words.
Coyote

[The Analog Kid]

I like how you focused on the emotions of the damage. Not political. We all need and use oil at this time. All plastic is made from it. So it is not as simple as new car technology. We need to ween off it, and that's for sure.

Nice touch giving a voice to the animals:) There will definitely be a lot of finger pointing. I learned from this is that man cannot control the earth entirely. Oil is a natural resource and in this is like taming a wild animal. Just sad the response is so slow.

TAK

[Desert Dreamer]

This situation is hard to think about, makes me hurt, for all those who have lost their lives and continue to lose their lives in this mess, including all the living things. It makes it hard to get in my truck to drive, because I as a owner of a car am partly responsible for this mess. It has always been just a matter of time for this to happen, have thought about it for years. And I feel strongly that we all need to change our lives. Reminds me of an interview I heard on public radio, about a book called Plentitude...the author had many great ideas for each one of us to do to stop using oil and re-make our economy. I think I will read it. Time to make more changes in my life. As the remaining oil in the world gets harder and harder to get, the risks doesn't justify us continuing to rely on oil. Capital A for Atrocity!