The oil spill that is happening in the Gulf of Mexico along the United States coastline is just devastating!! I live in the Midwest, so I am not directly affected (yet) by the spill, but I am following it very closely. I am very passionate about stuff like that. I have seen the media photographs of the beaches, marine life, and water - but I am wondering if anyone that lives (or has visited that area) has photos of it on here that they have shared. Like I said, I've seen the media photos, but I'd like to see some of the photos that actual residents of the area have taken. I don't know why, but I just feel like they will have more soul and truth to them than just media shots.
I pray that they find a fix for this devastation soon! I'm hopeful that the new cap they are speaking of will work the way they are thinking it should and contain nearly all of the flowing oil!
Hi Nicole, I live in San Antonio and we have been down to corpus christi often. A couple of things...
When we went down there last October for a weekend away, we went with the express Intention of spending the entire time lazing on the beach. Imagine our devastation when we discovered there had been a red tide.
First of all the smell was horrific (we didn't know what it was at first) and you could hardly bear to be outside... Even inside the smell just stuck in your nose and you couldn't get rid of it. Second, when we took the short trek to the beach on foot, laden with all our beach paraphernalia, we were mortified at the sight... As far as the eye could see there was a 15' unburied graveyard of sea creatures that looked like a war zone, it was so, so shocking. We had no idea what it was at first and my daughter had to go online to see what it was... Red tide! Needless to say we couldn't sit on the beach.
I went for a 6 mile run down mustang Island beach, north one day and south the next day, and it never came to an end!!! We searched the papers and watched the news everyday to see if this awful event had been reported on... NOT ONE WORD!!! Why???
I discussed this recently with an 83 year old colonel who was a fighter pilot I. The war... He said they are making such an unnecessary hoopla about it because In The war there were dozens of oil tankers destroyed off the coasts of various countries in the world ... He saw it with his own eyes, and within a few short months there was no sign of the oil anywhere on the beaches. His reason... Nature has a way of healing herself.
Don't get me wrong, I too am very sad about this, the animals that are affected is an atrocity of mammoth proportion, but....
This too shall pass.
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When we went down there last October for a weekend away, we went with the express Intention of spending the entire time lazing on the beach. Imagine our devastation when we discovered there had been a red tide.
First of all the smell was horrific (we didn't know what it was at first) and you could hardly bear to be outside... Even inside the smell just stuck in your nose and you couldn't get rid of it. Second, when we took the short trek to the beach on foot, laden with all our beach paraphernalia, we were mortified at the sight... As far as the eye could see there was a 15' unburied graveyard of sea creatures that looked like a war zone, it was so, so shocking. We had no idea what it was at first and my daughter had to go online to see what it was... Red tide! Needless to say we couldn't sit on the beach.
I went for a 6 mile run down mustang Island beach, north one day and south the next day, and it never came to an end!!! We searched the papers and watched the news everyday to see if this awful event had been reported on... NOT ONE WORD!!! Why???
I discussed this recently with an 83 year old colonel who was a fighter pilot I. The war... He said they are making such an unnecessary hoopla about it because In The war there were dozens of oil tankers destroyed off the coasts of various countries in the world ... He saw it with his own eyes, and within a few short months there was no sign of the oil anywhere on the beaches. His reason... Nature has a way of healing herself.
Don't get me wrong, I too am very sad about this, the animals that are affected is an atrocity of mammoth proportion, but....
This too shall pass.