"Heartbreak" near Florida border: "Massive amounts of submerged oil" on beaches

[Generic Other]

Run time: 01:47 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEvtCcoCc6g   Posted on YouTube: November 09, 2010 By YouTube Member: OilFlorida Views on YouTube: 136   Posted on DU: November 09, 2010 By DU Member: Generic Other Views on DU: 1097

 
Beach Impact: New Tar Washes Up In Orange Beach, WKRG, November 08, 2010: A heartbreaking discovery in Orange Beach over the weekend...significant amounts of tar balls and tar patties washed up just east of Gulf State Park. Some of the junk was the size of hamburgers. Locals and tourists made the disgusting discovery while during their morning beach walks and jogs. Last week's weather system could be to blame. Heavy surf pushed up massive amounts of submerged and sub-surface oil and pushed it up on several beaches.

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THIS IS SO SAD!!!

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Sad and predictable.

wonder how that BP boycott is doing?

[LittleGirl]

2. We were there three weeks ago.

At that exact beach front. It was the cleanest of all of the Gulf Shores/Orange Beach area beaches. We went to all of them that lined the shore between the FL line and Gulf Shores and chose this one. The first couple of days the water was crystal clear (and lovely). The final two days, the wind had shifted and there was an oily sheen and clumps of tar balls that came in from the surf. It was so sad to see those people working with their stiff upper lips. This B&B owner will probably lose his business as the place is deserted. No tourists to speak of, nobody but BP workers sifting the soil all day long.

What they did was criminal, yet NOBODY IS IN JAIL.

[Generic Other]

4. I am so sorry to hear that your vacation was spoiled by it all

I know you were wondering how the spill would impact your vacation plans.

It is heartbreaking to see this man standing so helplessly on the beach knowing he faces financial ruin as well as the horrible impact on the area he loves. You could hear the pain in his voice as you can in the voices of all the eyewitnesses.

Thanks for sharing your story. So many seem dedicated to underplaying the disaster and suppressing the information, so every eyewitness report is significant.

[LittleGirl]

13. Didn't spoil it much, really.

The only problem we had was with the tractors that continued to sift the sand around us. That's why we picked this beach over the others. This beach didn't have soiled seaweed at the shoreline but had the tractors. We had to settle for one or the other. It was the first time I was able to walk through sand barefoot. It was that clean on top.

A few months ago, I had read on DU that BP had dumped shitloads of new sand on top of the oil stained sand and it was true! When standing at the shoreline, the wall of sand was over five feet tall. You had to climb it to get to where your beach chairs were.

I am a beach person. I get re-energized by the sun, the wind and the surf. As much as the tractors distracted me (with the exhaust smell, noise and close proximity), it could not take away the majestic awesomeness of the beach. With which it just breaks my heart that this spill will affect that area for the next 100 yrs or so.

[GoLeft TV]

3. wow

"it is what it is"? I live on Pensacola Beach, and to hear someone say that really pisses me off. They don't have to live with this everyday. They can just vacation somewhere else. This is our life now, and they don't give a shit.

[Generic Other]

5. That guy made me mad too

He gives tourists the bad name they often have with locals!

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. Nobody tell Mike Thomas.

He's riding a high because of this last election and will get deflated when he finds out how wrong he was about the oil in the Gulf situation.

[JDPriestly]

7. They should collect all the tarballs in a huge box, scour the beaches

for them, and collect them and take them to either the Congress of the US or better yet to BP's headquarters in the U.S.

I lived in Mobile in the 1950s. The beaches were pristine, white sand forever. They were clean and beautiful. Of course, the population explosion and the construction mania destroyed much of their natural beauty, but the tarballs really must be finishing the job.

[Generic Other]

8. I think Code Pink would do this except they'd be arrested

for terroristic threats.

[spedtr90]

9. DON"T PICK THEM UP!

Why is no one stopping people from touching that stuff?

http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/

[enuegii]

10. What's up with the subject line?

"Heartbreak" near the Florida border? Orange Beach is in Alabama, last I heard.
I guess it wouldn't be heartbreaking enough to point that out.

[Generic Other]

11. I wondered why it was written that way too...I usually use their headline

I assumed it was because the website was FloridaLawOilSpill? Nevertheless, you are correct. Orange Beach, Alabama is the more accurate headline. I would re-do the headline but it's too late now.

[LittleGirl]

12. It's only a few hundred feet from the FL state border

You could see the high rises in the background...they are inside the FL border. It's that close.