Why aren't we hearing anything about the Gulf and Hurricane season?

[redirish28]

Okay I will say I'm not an expert. I am a weather buff. I enjoy watching how storms form and travel. One thing I am realizing and have mentioned here but no one wants to talk about:


What happens if a good size hurricane hits that spot in the Gulf coast and picks up that oil than travels inland? We are going to have a massive mess on our hands than. Think about if that oil gets into one of the major river systems... Think about our drinking water and the corporate media is telling us this leak won't be fix til August and the way we are suppose to accept it as just a fact of life?

[spanone]

1. i've heard it mentioned several times.

[jp11]

2. As have I.

[Crabby Appleton]

3. As have I - many times. nt

[gblady]

15. I heard it last night....

on the CBS evening news broadcast.

[wingnut40]

4. This could be a very VERY bad thing for all the gulf coast states.. :(

[HughMoran]

5. It was the first comment from the CNN anchor when discussing the tropical storm there

Luckily that one is not heading into the Gulf.

[Dappleganger]

6. It's often mentioned here in FL on the local news.

WE all know what this means.

[bdamomma]

7. I heard something on the news last night no matter what the oil

will head on land more terrible news, I think it was Mark Seitel of the Weather Channel. I think those BP executives should be held on negligence and total disaster of the environment.

[lapfog_1]

8. Oil on troubled waters...

The calming effect of oil was known to the ancient Greeks. In 1762, Benjamin Franklin repeated an experiment first performed by Pliny, which he reported in A Letter from Benjamin Franklin to William Brownrigg, 1773:

"At length being at Clapham, where there is on the common a large pond which I observed one day to be very rough with the wind, I fetched out a cruet of oil and dropped a little of it on the water. I saw it spread itself with surprising swiftness upon the surface; but the effect of smoothing the waves was not produced; for I had applied it first on the leeward side of the pond where the waves were greatest; and the wind drove my oil back upon the shore. I then went to the windward side where they began to form; and there the oil, though not more than a teaspoonful, produced an instant calm over a space several yards square which spread amazingly and extended itself gradually till it reached the lee side, making all that quarter of the pond, perhaps half an acre, as smooth as a looking glass."

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/288150.htm


So, this is all a grand experiment to end the hurricanes in the Gulf!

(must I add the :sarcasm: tag? Really?)

[Baclava]

9. The first storm that comes into the gulf will send oil flying everywhere

http://ocg6.marine.usf.edu/~liu/Drif...atest_roms.htm

[SammyWinstonJack]

10. ..

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[NeedleCast]

11. check out Dave Masters blog on Weather Underground

www.weatherunderground.com and then check out Master's blog. He's a hurricane expert at NOAA and has posted several interesting articles about the oil's effect on hurricanes.

[redirish28]

12. I will admit I had not heard anyone talk about it. Thank you for the info.

[stray cat]

13. WE are but you have to watch the news and not just DU

[redirish28]

14. Oh I watch the news and I read articles on the web. Problem is I haven't seen or heard anything

mentioned.

[kestrel91316]

16. We are hearing. But nobody knows how it will impact the pollution

ond its distribution.