Picture from Juan Cole at the following post:
VOA reports that the oil skimming ships are gone. The booms protecting islands and marshes have been torn from their anchors. Sand bags have been overwhelmed. The headline is that Hurricane Alex is delaying the clean-up. But what is really going on is that Hurricane Alex is making a real clean-up unlikely.
Well, hand in hand with BP's method of cleaning up: dump sand on top of the oil.
I heard on the radio that somebody is giving the oil an 80% chance of reaching the Florida keys and Miami. No doubt it will. This is an incredible disaster, and the news about it is almost like a black-out. BP rules the waves, both kinds. Unbelievable. Our government is absent while the Gulf strangles.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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