hey yall its been a good long while since ive been around...~waves~...im gettin a little more free time lately as ive gotten settled into new orleans after relocating here from up north...my first extended stay here in was just post katrina...i was in the first wave of trucks allowed back into the city to open up the roads and rebuild the levy system...i saw alot of devestation and tragedy from that event...i moved here permenenatly 2 years ago to start a business...nothing ever quite goes as planned but things are going well and ive established myself well...i got a business going...just not quite the one i intended....now this oil spill thing...what a undescribable tragedy this is becoming as now peanut butter consistincey oil looms just off the shores of the wetlands...the damage to the ecosystem and a way of life for many people hangs in the balance...i dont believe most of us will outlive the effects of the damage especially since there is really no end in site...the burn zone looks very armegeddonish...its really heartbreaking to see the effects on the wild life and such...unfortunately im not in a position to be able to do anything in the current crisis but watch it evolve into what i believe is likely the biggest disaster that the planet has ever seen...what a mess...shweeeew...sorry for the ramble...its alot to watch unfold...we in the city of new orleans really arent affected by it much beyond the occassional smell of crude carried by the wind...wich says alot considering our distance in proximity to the well...i do know there is alot of people having upper respitory problems i could only guess alot of that may be from the pollutants going into the air from the hell fires...i just find the whole thing very heart sickening...and its not really affecting me beyond payin a little more for shrimp right now...i cant immagine what it must be like to be a fisherman whos life depended on the clean waters...and as bp stock nosedives i wonder at what point they go bankrupt and cant fund the clean up bill...i fear ultimately we will all pay the price as a country in a monetary sense...i also have a pending sense that the water and wetlands will just become a toxic wasteland...very often hurricanes are followed by various random fires...i wonder how a nice thin coat of oil on everything for 40 miles inland will react to a spark...scary to think of the volitilty factor...but it sure seems to be burnin good in the water...i think we all have something to fear in the concequences.

Welcome back. I have heard the same coming from family and friends from LA and FL........hope we get more done and quickly....

Welcome back, dude ... bein' from N'Awlins my whole life until Katrina moved me up to TN, I know what you're talkin' about. I knew a lot of people in the area bein' affected by this spill. They were fishermen ... Hopedale, Shell Beach, Yscloskey, Braithwaite, Chauvin, Dulac (upper AND lower), etc etc ... I decided after Katrina that I'd never return 'cuz it's one thing to lose 'stuff' to hurricanes, but it's another thing entirely to lose the few remaining memories y' have of the city you love and have 'em replaced with the new, coarser reality ... As to the effects of the oil spill, one that ALMOST happened in the '80s when the heat wave lowered the Mississippi's level to the point that it looked like salt water from the Gulf was gonna flow upstream and threaten the drinking water intakes, that same event is possible with OIL in the water ... and oil will be hundreds of times more dangerous to the intakes than salt water ... I hope you do well with your business, and wish you the best - I know it ain't easy there right now ...

What, i'm suppose to read all that??????????????????? i'll wait

Wow too much effort to read a paragraph..........??

i can either think or read, but not both.

I believe you are correct...
Best wishes to you