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Unbelievable! They haven't started to clean anything up!
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Friday, September 30th, 2005
The Front Porch, Elmo St. House
Update from Ralph, Tennessee
Writing from this porch is a pleasure tonight, with just a small breeze across the bow of this ship.
Speaking of ships, I will tell you of what I saw today. I saw a barge, nearly 3 football fields in length and close to 40 feet tall, sitting in a yard nearly 400 yards from where the levee broke. I mean, it was sitting in their yard. On top of their car. This is a large barge. The type that you see some tugboats steering down the river.
I also saw an oil spill. Not a small small spill. More like someone did an oil change on about forty square blocks. Where there was a definite water-line on houses in some areas, this was an oil-line up to four feet high on brick walls. Cars that floated in the yards were now at rest in the street or neighbors yard, covered in oil.
A small refinery sits just a 1/4 mile away. No EPA, no refinery folks in the area feverishly cleaning this mess up. I did see where they had been using small pumps to empty the drainage ditch of it's oil/water mixture, but that was as efficient as removing water from a swimming pool with a turkey baster -- not helping. No warning signs posted in the area nor yellow tape to cordon off the mess. An oil slick in New Orleans, or Arabi to be exact.
Link to this update:
http://michaelmoore.com/mustread/covington.phpWednesday September 28th, 2005
Here on the Moon
Jason writes:
Today we went to St. Bernard's Parish in New Orleans. I had heard a lot about it on the local radio and really wanted to see it. It is just next to the 9th Ward and it was totally under water. The kicker for St. Bernard is that it has an oil refinery and there was an oil spill because of the hurricane. The entire city lay under 9 - 10 ft. Of oily water until it finally drained out.
I was shocked at the devastation. No one will ever live in this city again before they bulldoze everything and re-build from the ground up. And who even knows if they'll ever do that.
Honestly, It was like being on the moon. The grass had died in a way that I can't explain with words. It was white and felt like foam under my feet. The cement had all cracked and it looked like a crater on another planet. The air was thick and hard to breathe. Needless to say we got in and out rather quickly.
We found canals that ran along the once beautiful communities that were now full of oil. The environmental implications of some area like this sitting dormant in our country are beyond comprehension.
Link to this update:
http://michaelmoore.com/mustread/covington.php?id=40All the updates for the past month here:
http://michaelmoore.com/mustread/covington.php?archive=show
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