Checking Out Pensacola Beach
After our water aerobics class this morning, AdventureMan and I drove out to the beautiful sugar-white sandy beaches of Pensacola to check the damage. The clean up crews have been busy, and the beaches look gorgeous. People are sunning, swimming, and sharing the beaches with the clean up crews.
A big huge electronic sign announces that the road to the beach will be closed all day tomorrow. How can you close a major road? Is this Kuwait, or Qatar, where the will of the Amir says “Make it so!” and it is so? Oh. Wait. President Obama is coming, so the road will be his and his alone to go out to the beaches and see what we saw today.
The huge, gigantic glob of oil has only sent tendrils, so far, to the pristine white beaches, but doom impends as storms and winds blow the thick oily sludge toward the shores. God willing, President Obama will find a way to encourage British Petroleum to work with a little more conviction and energy to find a long term solution to this unthinkable TWO MONTHS and hundreds of thousands of gallons spewing into the Gulf.
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I see you’re falling for the current US discourse on BP. (It start off as British Petroleum, but it changed its name to BP 9 years ago. It’s owned just as much by Americans these days as it is by the British, about 40% each.) I don’t mention this because I have strong feelings on the subject, so much as that this retro branding has been a major news item on this side of the ocean; I think I’ve seen at least four articles on the branding issue in the last day-or-so.
More importantly: what gorgeous beaches! (I can only hope they mostly stay that way.)
I cannot correct my typo, but I can correct my generality: I know British Petroleum was the way Obama referred to it; I have no idea if it is being called that more widely in the US press at the moment.
I guess kuwait owns some of BP stock as well , this pollution problem is going to take BP to the cleaners
BP and cleaners in one sentense 🙂
You know when the President is a coming, everything stops.
S. Worthen – yes, you are right. A local editorial reminded us that it is British, and Petroleum, and I think people are using that to keep the pressure on BP to clean up the mess. I am not so sure that there is a solution. That stuff keeps billowing out and nothing seems to be working.
Pensacola has been so hard hit – by Ivan, then by Dennis (hurricanes), by a huge drop in the housing market, by severe unemployment. This is a crippling blow.
Daggero – Has Kuwait solved the Mishref sewage problem? Kuwait gives me hope for the future here; when the Iraqis left the oilfields burning and Kuwait covered with petroleum cinders, it looked like it could never be reversed. You look at Kuwait today – what a miracle. So I do have hope. 🙂
LOL, Florida Blogger, you are so right. And I can understand how that long bridge to Gulf Breeze and Pensacola Beach could be a security issue . . .
BP (aka Beyond Petroleum) are in the deep here (sorry) and it’s not an easy task to put a stop on the huge flow. If it was, it would have been done by now. This is a PR disaster for BP, as well as on all other levels.
It’s a terrible thing to say, but I’ve been saying it a lot: If this had happened anywhere in the third world, it will probably not be in the news any more. So I’m ‘pleased’ if you excuse the word, that it happened somewhere where people care and have influence. It means a solution HAS to be found – and a cover-up is out of the question.
I hope you see it as old news as our oily shores that you mention. This story needs to be behind us soon.
Bu Yousef, it seems even the President of the United States doesn’t have the influence – it’s still gushing. I want to see British Petroleum and their allied companies held accountable, and I want the gusher stopped. I suspect British Petroleum also wants to stop the gusher.
It’s going to be decades, so they say, that the oil already in the gulf will be impacting on the marine life and the wetlands and the shores.