The Friday Horizon From Dauphin Island Looking Southwest
April 30th, 2010BP Oil Slick to Make Landfall Here Sunday
by Glynn Wilson
DAUPHIN ISLAND – We arrived on the scene here before sunset on Friday at the point where the massive BP oil slick is supposed to hit Alabama first, the Western tip of Dauphin Island south of Mobile.
There’s already a black streak in the sand on the primary dune line here from routine pollution on this side of Mobile Bay.
So far, the readiness to handle a disaster of this magnitude appears not just inadequate, but non-existant. There are only 60 miles of boom to cover 300 miles of coast, according to a spokesman for the town of Dauphin Island, and it is useless with waves of three feat or higher.
With storms coming in over the Gulf for the next few days out of the southwest, the waves could top six to eight feet or more. There are no plans in place to do ANYTHING to try and stop the oil from coming ashore here.
The clouds on Friday looked like the sky over Mordor in the final episode of Lord of the Rings, a harbinger of a looming disaster of epic proportions. This will no doubt dwarf the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William’s Sound Alaska in March of 1989, and without exaggeration, will be called the largest and worst environmental disaster in American history.
Did I mention no plan?
