The news on the oil spill is disturbing to say the least - and the long term effects could be worse still
Brings back memories of when I was a kid back in the '50's and a tanker - the PW Thirtle - was rammed and dumped 31,000 gallons of crude into Narragansett Bay
I remember the effects well - thick tar all over the beaches and rocks, crude floating in Newport harbor making the beach at King's Park look somebody had paved it, plenty of dead oil-soaked critters
One of the lifeguards at King's Park actually set the floating crude on fire, thinking it would get rid of it - that didn't go so well, either. I can't believe BP actually thought that might be an effective mitigation technique for an offshore spill...
The spill from the Thirtle effectively wiped out the oyster fishery in Narragansett Bay - those folks in the Gulf states are gonna get hammered, doesn't look like I'll be eating Appalachacolas anytime soon
At this point I hope the offshore spill in Louisiana doesn't get into the Stream and round the Keys - it's not a pretty scenario
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