BP oil spill: A holiday beach gets a deadly brown bath

BP oil spill: A holiday beach gets a deadly brown bath
By Fred Grimm | Miami Herald
Posted on Saturday, May 22, 2010

GRAND ISLE, La. -- The first wave of oil swept onto the beach. The tourists swept out.

The few people who bothered to visit Grand Isle Beach Friday came out of morbid curiosity, to see the proliferating drips and blotches and puddles and pools the color of Coca-Cola.

"My God, our beach should be crowded, the start of a big weekend," said Lynette Anderson, surveying the ruinous mess along the surf line. "We kept hoping it was going to miss us. Should have known better."

The gooey, adhesive stuff portended an economic disaster for Grand Isle, the only inhabited island on Louisiana's Gulf Coast. Tourists keep this beach town alive. The tourists had vanished.

"All of them canceled on me," said Lisa Rhobus, who runs the Cajun Holiday Motel. Every room had been booked for the weekend, but her parking lot was empty Friday afternoon.

I can hardly read the accounts anymore. This might be the worst manmade environmental disaster ever.

yeah, the mainstream media whores might be able to ignore it, but it would be so enticing to ratings.........

but it would have more mediagenic than a Washington DC march.