Oil is getting through Pensacola Pass and into Santa Rosa Sound. Photos courtesy of Kim Carmichael:
Category: BP Disaster
EOC: Update June 13 4:30 pm
Two plumes south of Pensacola Pass – a large plume of weathered oil nine miles out, it’s two miles wide and 40 miles long; non-weather oil plume three miles out. BP is…
Update on Pensacola Pass (photo)
More from Pensacola Pass: A small clean up boat has arrived now. Keep in mind there is quite a bit of oil and there are numerous clean up crews parked along the…
Tea Party doesn’t get it
Here is the latest message from the National Tea Party. Instead of talking about British Petroleum, Cheney’s hand in the deregulation of offshore drilling and the corruption of Mineral Management Services, the…
Text messages from readers
My readers are the best sources for what is happening: I’m in the sound on the boat right now directly across from the ranger station. There is globs (a lot) of thick…
EOC: Wiggins report
Mayor Mike Wiggins reported that Bayou Texar now has triple booming. City staff is booming the grass areas near the trestle and Wayside Park. The second phase of Greenshores (near Pitt’s Slip)…
EOC: Unified Command
Two barges recovering oil collided last night in Perdido Key, sparking a small fire. The incident has been contained according to Unified Command.
Grover’s message for President Obama
Comm. Grover Robinson: We need better communication. We need more boats to fight this battle. I don’t want to hear about EPA regulations, Jones Act impeding the boats being deployed. Whatever is…
EOC: Oil in Pensacola Pass
Twenty vessels fighting it. Commissioner Grover Robinson flew over the area in an ECSO helicopter. Pensacola Beach appeared clear. There were orange patches in Pensacola Bay near the Ranger station. Boats were…
News: Storage tank from Deepwater Horizon washes
Panama City News Herald reports: “Bay County’s first tangible landfall from the Deepwater Horizon crisis is not tar balls or oil plumes. Instead, it’s a storage tank officials think was onboard the…
News: Bama beaches turn black
The Mobile Press Register had two reports: Beaches turn black: The picture that I posted yesterday was only the beginning of the problem for Gulf Shores and Orange Beach. Thousands of people…