Oil Forecast

Does anyone else find it strange that there IS such a thing as an "Oil Forecast"? Along the gulf states, one station at least, has a forecast for oil slicks, sheens, and oil washing up to shore. WKRG... On this site you can also view the wellhead that's spewing oil, as well as other cameras from the remote operated vehicles and there is a counter at the top that tells how many gallons have polluted the waters in the Gulf Of Mexico, to date.


WKRG.com News

This should worry you... It worries me because now we have not only have a weather forecast, we now have an oil forecast... It is almost as if we can expect the eruption of this oil to be as much a part of our lives now, and in the future, as weather. There is a Hurricane Watch and warning, a tornado watch and warning, there is a severe weather watch and warning... but none of those have an actual forecast. A forecast is a prediction. We have an Oil Forecast. We have the Weather Channel. Should we soon expect to see an Oil Channel? I don't feel that I would be too far off the mark to say yes.

CNN is doing an Update on Migratory Birds in the Gulf and ways to trick them into avoiding it...

This isn't the answer and it isn't a solution but I applaud the idea and the attempt if it will save any of those birds... But I honestly don't think it will work. I want it to. I want them to find ways to scare the dolphins and sea turtles and the other sea creatures out of the Gulf... but where would they go? The water is polluted as far as the Florida Keys, and the Everglades are at immediate risk as well.

Oil Forecast: Toxic Oil and all of it's components including the Corexit Dispersant that BP is adding to the poison - Coming soon to a beach near you.

Call IGetItButSloBama, call your Senator, your Congressman, your state representatives, call God, call Buddha, call Mars, the Moon, ANYONE or ANYTHING, and beg them to move on killing this well before it manages to kill all of us.

Day 76 - 161,696,919 gallons of oil (and counting at the rate of 60,000-100,000 more per day,  making it's way towards you, and yours and indeed your very life.