High winds and rough seas continue to hamper efforts at cleaning the spill, which means pur area could very likely see the effects of the spill.
At Friday’s County Meeting in Robertsdale, officials asked a BP representative several questions concerning the dangers posed to those of us who are coastal residents. Among the questions were…
“Will there be dangers from the fumes as the oil reaches the coast?” and “Should coastal residents need to evacuate?” The BP representative had no answers but wrote the questions down promised that a technical advisor would be dispatched as soon as possible.
The associated press reports: “The Coast Guard has estimated that about 200,000 gallons of oil are spewing out each day — which would mean 1.6 million gallons of oil have spilled since the April 20 explosion that killed 11 workers. The environmental mess could eclipse the Exxon Valdez disaster, when an oil tanker spilled 11 million gallons off Alaska’s shores in 1989.
The slick nearly tripled in just a day or so, growing from a spill the size of Rhode Island to something closer to the size of Puerto Rico, according to images collected from mostly European satellites and analyzed by the University of Miami.”