It Begins… Tar Blobs Wash Up On Florida's White Sand Beaches (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, June 5, 2010, 8:15 AM
Tar balls began washing up on shore today on the Florida beaches today.
Globs of oil were found scattered on more than 23 miles of Pensacola’s white sandy beaches in Florida.
CBS reported:
Reuters reported:
Tar balls washed ashore in northwest Florida on Friday, the first apparent impact there from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill that one senator said meant a “huge economic hit” to the tourism-dependent state.
Oil debris came ashore among swimmers and beachgoers on Pensacola Beach, part of the Gulf Islands National Seashore, which advertises “the world’s whitest beaches,” as the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history widened.
Florida, the “Sunshine State” with a $60 billion annual tourism industry, had braced for oil from the 46-day-old spill to arrive. Oil had already hit the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama to the west.
Florida Democratic Senator Bill Nelson told CNN the arrival of the oil signified “a huge economic hit” to local tourism. “There are already cancellations, the restaurants are down a little bit,” he said.
Beachgoers on Pensacola Beach, many of them children, picked up rust-colored tar blobs, ranging in size from a button to a table-tennis ball, scattered along the sugar-white sands.
As The Anchoress says, “This is not Obama’s Katrina; It’s his My Pet Goat
Maybe Barack Obama should have accepted help from the 17 nations offering their technology and expertise in attempting to contain the damage? Whoever is in charge(?) so far has declined the assistance.
More… Via Instapundit: “The real disgrace here is why, if he really did know right away that this was the oil equivalent of an asteroid strike, he didn’t scramble some sort of all-hands-on-deck emergency operation to protect the coastline. Remember, Jindal reportedly requested five million feet of hard boom back on May 2, long after Obama (according to Wolffe) knew about the magnitude of the disaster. By May 24, not even 800,000 feet had arrived. What happened?”
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non_dhimmie commented:
So many explosions, so little time.
Coal mines, natural gas, Korean ship, oil wells, flotilla crisis, Poor little Nashville just got lost in all that media crisis stuff. hmmmmmmm
stimulus and cap and trade will make it all better with a dose of obamacare….union pay offs….and more muzzies everywhere….that taxpayers are paying the bills…from sweet Gaza no less…..ain’t it all grand.
meanwhile, Issa (arab) is distracting with Sestak, while Shore Bank is poised to get a bailout and cap and trade business…..Chicago wins again…America loses.
GM commerical lie paying off debt with your money. Jobs numbers inflated by firing and rehiring census workers….
bill-tb commented:
Explosion -> oil leak -> destruction -> Cap and trade
Never let a spill go to waste, and don’t ever contain it too soon. Why ask for help?
Valerie commented:
Funny, the Saudis know how to use tankers to siphon up oil from a plume. You fill the tankers with a mixture of oil and salt water, which then can be separated and refined. The refining process is a pain in the a$$, but it’s one way to mop up a spill so that the damage is dramatically reduced.
This President wants the damage magnified.
I still don’t see impeachment as a possibility, unless somebody can show that the failure to act was for the purpose of inflicting damage on our coastal residents. That’s a tough one to prove.
November will be here sooner.
Candidates. We need candidates, and they must be as few Democrats as possible, to contain the damage wrought by this irresponsible, feckless, administration that is acting in a manner hostile to the interests of the American people and their allies.
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Robert commented:
It is telling that the only definitive actions by Obama are to conduct criminal investigations of BP and announce to press cap and tax upon the country.
bill-tb commented:
Robert, what is the first thing you do when there is a criminal investigation announced … silence.
The leaking is controlled, now to implement the cap and trade ideology.
retire05 commented:
Anyone noticie that everytime The Won makes a trip to Louisiana, it seems to be “Photo-op with Charlie Crist Time”? Could it be because it is being reported that the propaganda firm headed by Anita Dunn is working for Crist and the DNC has decided to dump the Dem candidate? There is one word to describe Crist; Specter.
So you can bet that while the Louisiana marsh lands are being destroyed FOREVER, ole’ Charlie will have his voice heard while Bobby Jindal weeps over the lack of cooperation from a president from a rival party. And where is Haley Barbour? Guess Haley has been too vocal about the ineptness of the BoyKing to be invited for a photo-op.
I heard a former CEO of Shell say yesterday that this entire disaster could have been [partially] avoided by having oil separation tankers on the spill site within 24 hours and that bargers, of which we have thousands, could have had separators installed in days. He said that BP was doing everything it could to stop the leak (as it was in their best interestest to do so) but that no one has been more negligent in protecting the shore line as our own government. Guess that guy won’t be invited to be on the BoyKing’s “oil spill committee” anytime soon.
It would seem that Obama, the consumate “community organizaer” can’t even organize the damn departments that work for him. But then, maybe being POTUS was just viewed as another temporary gig on the way to Ruler of the New World Order.
Robert commented:
Since The Brainy Bunch has decided to conduct criminal investigations, everyone involved must now second-guess their decisions, since a correction now could indicate criminal malfeasance at an earlier point.
The true criminal malfeasance is the lack of initiative, coordination, leadership,and inspiration by The Ones We Have Been Waiting For.
Joanne commented:
“I still don’t see impeachment as a possibility, unless somebody can show that the failure to act was for the purpose of inflicting damage on our coastal residents. That’s a tough one to prove.” by Valerie
Obama did nothing and stalled any progress. What were the consequences of his inaction – well that is easy to prove and see.
If you see a house on fire with people screaming inside and you just watch the house burn and the cries die down without calling the fire department or asking someone else to call the fire department, aren’t you guilty of negligence or far worse. Well Obama just sat back and watched the oil wash ashore without doing much of anything or even allowing others the ability to take action quick enough. Isn’t he guilty of negligence and his government guilty of delaying any action?
Obama doesn’t care because he sees this crisis to work in his agenda’s favour…..curtailing oil drilling, destroying the economy for the states affected, further job losses, Republican states losing favour…perhaps, etc. Does Obama do anything that is in the interests of the American people and the economy? No, he does not…..not anything.
LimoLibsStink commented:
0bama:
Bill needs and other Butt Plug. He is leaking worse than that stupid oil well!
Barney Frank, will cram the first two failed BP’s in Bill’s big butt. Then I think we should use a bigger Butt Plug and tar balls to seal it… or possibly super glue. That should hold it in place.
My limousine is running and Barney Frank, Bill Clinton and I and a meeting. The leak will be plugged. Good day.
aprilnovember811 commented:
Maybe Barack Obama should have accepted help from the 17 nations offering their technology and expertise in attempting to contain the damage? Whoever is in charge(?) so far has declined the assistance.
Because he and his regime purposely ignored it. They wanted to damage the oil industry, and the tourism industry. Remember the layoffs from this? This will make more dependent on this sociopath Obama. All of you please remember the democratic/communist members of Congress who marched in lock step with Obama. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, that big mouth marxist, and Alan Grayson, and Charlie Christ. They are all Obama’s rubber stamps. These are mentally ill people, who belong in federal prison. They are his cheerleaders.
Mutnodjmet commented:
GULF….I thought you meant GOLF!
Ginger commented:
Any one find out where he and that witch he is married to (if they are married) go on their date night Wednesday?
Don’t you really wonder why his so called trip to Indonesia and Africa was cancelled again? I bet the death threats are so out there that he can’t go! He has angered his cousins!
He says that he is sending BP a bill???????
Is that called extortion? Maybe? Let’s send him a bill for the trillions that has disappeared and been waisted under this Kenyan/British/Indonesion fraud so called leadership.
Ginger commented:
People along the coast lines needs to get off their duffs and start picking up the oil globs their selves! I am sure they can find a lot of barrels, etc. They know they can not rely on the so called fraud in the white house.
Please……… God helps them whom helps themselves.
Jim commented:
They want this to happen! Just one more nail in the coffin! I e-mailed BP , the White House, and others with a very simple way to cap this well. All that has to be done is to weld a ball valve (readily available in many sizes) to a piece of pipe that has a slightly larger inside diameter than the outside diameter of the ruptured pipe. Saw the broken pipe of so it is flush (imagine that), slip the pipe with the valve over it, weld it on, and simple close the valve. Ball valve operate very easily under high pressures, higher pressures than this leak is.
This, to me anyway, seems very simple but they are looking for the most long, drawn out, complicated solution that they can find!
I am by no means a “rocket scientist” but just a lowly machinist/fabricator with more common sense than the whole lot of them put together!
marie commented:
Maybe now that Florida is affected something will actually be done. I live in Alabama and we have seen NOTHING from the Coast Guard. This whole response is politically-based, you can bet your life on it. LA, AL, MS all voted for McCain. FL went for Obama–let’s see what happens now. The media is not reporting what’s really going on down here, you can rest assured.
SeniorD commented:
No, this is not Zero’s Katrina nor is it Zero’s Pet Goat. This is yet another albatross to hang around this Bozo’s neck like the Nobel “Peace” Prize.
All he needs now is some overly large shoes, a fright wig and a light-up bow tie to make his costume complete.
ivehadit commented:
It is my opinion that the administration has acted passively on this because they are agitators not leaders. And because they saw this as a political situation not anything they wanted to deal with as they felt they would “own” it if they acted. Again, a political response. And frankly, in my humble opinion, they WANT this to be a mega-disaster to add to their P.R. kit for the environmentalists to get everything single thing they have ever wanted legislatively regarding the environment.
Dereliction of duty, indeed. It’s ALL about them…always.
Neo commented:
Never let a good disaster go to waste …
Chisum commented:
The New Bumper Stickers Are Here
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2010/06/new-bumper-stickers-are-here-new-bumper.html
Randy commented:
Wait! I can fix it! Let’s send busloads of ACORN and SEIU thugs to the coast. Wouldn’t it be nice to see these paid operatives do something constructive! Or maybe Jessie and Al could organize their “people” to help with the clean-up.
Obama has proven time and again that he is a “community” organizer, but not a “national” organizer. The president of the local Jaycee chapter has more organizational skills this this guy.
Randy commented:
Ginger, here is part of an email I got from a friend who lives right on the coast…
“We are going to be dealing with waves of this heaver oil for a month or more, perhaps longer. Our little beach world has changed, we have to except that and work from our “new normal”. Don’t panic, there are plenty of people doing that for us. Work the problem in small parts, find solutions on a daily basis. In time we will get the beach cleaned up, we will pull together. We will deal with this “new normal” and get done what we have to get done.”
Judith commented:
I can’t understand why Obozo has remained untouched for so long. We sure are a country of Rip VanWinkles. Maybe because he is so oily himself. Where is the outrage on the Healthcare Bill? That needs to be kept in the spotlight for the indies to stay connected. Take friends, lots of friends, to the voting booth in November.
Judith commented:
Lived on Pensacola Beach a while back and it is truly most beautiful. Have a container of white sand as a memory. This waste makes me physically ill, all those beautiful pelican, terns, now dolphins. What is going to happen in Florida to the dugongs (sea cows)? They are endangered already from the darn tourist boats.
hermie commented:
What’s a few pelicans and dolphins when the Won can grab more political power?
Hope and Change…Hope and Change, ya know.
Chisum commented:
http://www.floppingaces.net/2010/06/06/sunday-funnies-88/
Chisum commented:
EVERY WAKING MOMENT
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2010/06/every-waking-moment.html