oil spill on the mighty miss
Good Lord, the smell of it. Has anyone else noticed the slow painful death of houseflies in the neighborhood? I suppose this might be interpreted as a mixed blessing since people and animals are also being poisoned. In fact, I’ve got myself a nasty little headache from the fumes.
Besides the mass extermination of flies, the other upside to this ugly mishap is, possibly, the cancellation of McCain’s scheduled New Orleans stop. According to the T-P:
“Besides the forecast for storms, it’s also possible that the McCain campaign would not want to have McCain highlighting his support for increased drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf at a time officials are dealing with a spill of an estimated 9,000 barrels of diesel fuel into the Mississippi River.”
So there’s that.
Gray skies are gonna clear up, put on a happy face…
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July 23rd, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Miiiighty stinky out there. I think my dog is swaying from the fumes…
July 23rd, 2008 at 9:38 pm
McCain or the oil spill….hmmn, what a choice.
Both give me a headache, both spew bad air, and both are the result of America’s pimping for the Oil Conglomerate.
I’ll settle for what we get, the merde du jour, and try to be happy that the flies are being cut back. At least the stinky stain won’t be around for four years…I hope.
July 23rd, 2008 at 11:16 pm
Given a choice, I think I might go with the oil spill. Then again, the oil spill will probably be fucking with people’s livelihoods from here to the gulf, and that truly sucks. And 90,000 gallons at 4 bucks a gallon — that’s a whole lot of guacamole down a rathole.
And then there’s Satan for President: The Sequel.
Tough call.
July 23rd, 2008 at 11:23 pm
meant to say 9,000, not 90,000.
oops.
July 24th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
90,000 gallons at 4 bucks a gallon
It’s actually 420,000 gallons of stuff you can’t put in a car. It’s heavy, industrial grade fuel used in factories, etc.
July 24th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
The TP article said 9,000, which seemed low to me.
Has anyone noticed how the smell has transformed today?
Yesterday it was a sort of amonia-spiked chemical odor, today the whole city smells like a damn gas station.
I wonder what tomorrow will bring. Dirty feet?
July 25th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Captain Joe, riverboat captain, told me that what they are telling you on the news, of course, isn’t the truth. Maitri is right. about 450,000 is what joe told me. of course the port of new orleans is charging everytime someone goes out to work on the situation, and charging everytime they take them back to shore.
The divers went down, about 90 feet down, can’t see anything, the river is so muddy. They’ll be removing diesel before they can pull up the rest of whats left. When I got off work the night it happened, it really stunk… eyes watering, and the closer to home, the worse the smell. What really got me was the newscaster saying it really wasn’t so bad. Had I been face to face, I would’ve asked her to swim in it….
July 25th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Thanks for the info, Mardi Claw. The only way to get the real scoop in this city is to hear it on the street.
450,000 gallons sounds like the truth.
Someone once said, “only a fool believes what he reads in the paper.”
This whole, “all clear on the east bank” mentality has me pissed. They’re saying “it smells bad, but that’s all.” That’s a load of crap. We’re not just experienceing odors here, we’re experiencing symptoms. Headaches, dizzyness, nausea. I’m keeping my kids mostly indoors till it stops. The last thing I’ll do is believe what the mayor’s office has to say.
I won’t believe any advice from a guy who said, after the storm, “It’s safe to bring your kids home now,” even though he made damn sure his own kids stayed in Texas for many months after.