Monday, May 3, 2010

Dead is so permanent...

The news is carrying the horror stories of the failures to try and cap off the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and today was the day of the first deaths to be counted due to this manmade pollution, dozens of sea turtles are washing up on shore in the Mississippi area.
The turtles from the outside look completely normal but the wildlife people are presuming that they have ingested oil filled foods of fish and the like.

Sadly we all knew the time would come to see this and we all know that no one is standing around twiddling their thumbs watching the oil escape into our beautiful scenic and economically fulfilling waters being destroyed.
Amounts of the free for all flow have been reported from one thousand to a hundred thousand gallons a day, and each news media franchise has their own numbers.
All I know is that it is NOT good whether it is any of those above mentioned numbers!

Lee and Collier Counties to our south here in Charlotte County Florida, have devised plans already for when it comes to their shores. Charlotte on the other hand has not gotten on the news to let us know what they plan for us, and we are even a wee bit closer to the actual spill!
I do know that all the Emergency Management Facilities had a conference call today with our Governor Crist, who held a news conference at noon for all of us Floridians to see, although many were probably at work or school accept the unemployed and retired like us. He poignantly stated that “we should all prepare for the worst but hope for the best”. Now that I see that in print isn’t that the same lame stuff everyone pipes in when they have no idea what to do and since that is all we as Floridians can do?
It’s not like a hurricane that we can evacuate from, since we aren’t even sure exactly what is going to happen here, yet if anything.

BP is saying that they have a few ideas of trying a dome like cap, or to drill another side well and shut it off from there. Problems are they have never done that dome thing ever at a depth of five thousand feet and they have no idea if it will work since it is only a theory that it should, and the other idea could take as long as two to three months to build by robotics!

News keeps telling us it will hit Florida the only question is when and where, whoa mine too! To be fair only a soothsayer could know for sure even with wind and water current directions they are all still just guessing, since those things change hourly, daily and weekly.

Now to the practical side of this, tourism, the reality of that realization is way too scary for our already sadly compromised economy here.
Now Governor Crist is extending the National Guard coverage to Sarasota County, just above us to our north.

Hypocrisy is us we all know there is no way at this point with our energy needs that we could possibly all switch to anymore Green ideas for transportation and utility needs. Why it was less than a month ago that two major governors were saying drill, drill, drill baby!
My fear was that they were sending Palin clones to other states, but thankfully Governor Schwarzenegger of California, duh, as if you didn’t know who he was, has seen the light and changed his mind today and I know our Governor Crist has too!
If the United States government will follow the trend, please Mr. President we Gulf Coasters beg of you!
Nature’s wrath is again just around the corner next month is hurricane season; why then must we endure manmade mistakes?

Can you imagine if a hurricane was thrown into this mess, then where would all that oil go to?

Not to make little of our friends to our north between tornadoes and flooding the human deaths of dozens has been horrendously significant!
What did we all do to create all these terrible happenings folks!
It’s so scary not knowing what might come next!
Be careful peeps and keep the news in your daily living to know.

Good night to all and take care, count those blessings and we will too!


PS Good night, sleep tight, dear sweet Georgy Girl, for Lynn Redgrave who portrayed you, has lost her seven year battle with breast cancer and has passed on to a better place I am sure but only at the tender age of sixty-seven.
Footnote: My niece that was my eldest and that had died back in 2006 at the age of 50, from colon cancer and I years ago, in our teens since we were only five years apart, me being the elder, entered a talent contest where she sang the song Georgy Girl and I danced to it, and so that movie has such fond memories to me.

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