Oiled up & on the beach at Dauphin Island

SoCalDem

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Wed May-12-10 07:52 PM
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Oiled up & on the beach at Dauphin Island

Edited on Wed May-12-10 07:55 PM by SoCalDem

When I saw this, it reminded me of seeing people sunbathing on the beach in Thailand after the tsunami...as people picked through the rubble a few feet away, looking for bodies..

I guess if you are "on vacation"..dammit, nothing else matters :(

Brian Snyder / Reuters

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Beach goers sunbathe behind a wall of hay bales, used to absorb any oil that might come ashore, on Dauphin Island, Alabama.
Wednesday, May. 12, 2010

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/today-in-pictures#ixzz0nlZNqBMD

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rzemanfl

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Wed May-12-10 07:54 PM
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1. Those hay bales won't stand up to even modest wave action. n/t

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JuniperLea

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Wed May-12-10 07:58 PM
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2. I get really pissed when I come home from the beach with tar on my feet...

I would go postal if I saw gallons of oil...

I go here every weekend...

You can see the oil derricks offshore... it's painful...

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Duer 157099

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Wed May-12-10 07:58 PM
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3. When I was growing up in Southern California

We used to spend LOTS of time at the beach. And I was recently thinking about this, how there were certain beaches where you'd get this black "tar" all over your feet when you walked barefoot there. I just took that as a normal part of what happens at some beaches, never thinking that it might have been residue from some oil accidents. I still don't know.

But now I really wonder.

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WillyT

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Wed May-12-10 08:06 PM
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4. Yep...

Samples have been sent for testing to see whether the massive
oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was to blame for their deaths.
Photo: AP

From: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/7713466/Gulf-of-Mexico-oil-spill-dead-dolphins-found-washed-up-on-US-coast.html

:shrug:

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