According to residents, grass and plants dying after a healthy rain shower. The events are happening in Southern Florida and have some on alert.
if its doing that to the plants, i wonder what its doing to u...
BIG EQ LA
Earthquake Details Magnitude 5.9 Date-Time Tuesday, June 15, 2010 at 04:26:58 UTC Monday, June 14, 2010 at 09:26:58 PM at epicenter
Location 32.698°N, 115.924°W Depth 6.8 km (4.2 miles) Region SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Distances 8 km (5 miles) SE (124°) from Ocotillo, CA 24 km (15 miles) WSW (244°) from Seeley, CA 26 km (16 miles) ENE (70°) from Jacumba Hot Springs, CA 36 km (22 miles) WSW (254°) from El Centro, CA 104 km (65 miles) E (79°) from Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 0.4 km (0.2 miles); depth +/- 1.4 km (0.9 miles) Parameters Nph=062, Dmin=6 km, Rmss=0.32 sec, Gp= 76°,
Rep. Anthony Weiner on C-Span3 said BP should not be in charge in anything anymore due to their lack of forthcoming information, inability to accomplish anything...why BP should be in charge of deciding who deserves payment....Rep. Weiner is very direct and said BP is horrible in making decisions...BP is lacking complete credibility.
Rep. Joseph Cao, is also very good in his questions and is getting nothing from BP...they don't want to go on record saying anything.
FOX NEWS SAID IT WAS CANCELED DUE TO PROTESTERS
someone was yelling "clean up your toxic oil"
-- Edited by Franklin on Tuesday 15th of June 2010 01:22:48 PM
About time somebody showed some guts: [link to www.thedestinlog.com]
DESTIN — Okaloosa County isn’t taking oil spill orders any more.
County commissioners voted unanimously to give their emergency management team the power to take whatever action it deems necessary to prevent oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill from entering Choctawhatchee Bay through the East Pass.
That means the team, led by Public Safety Director Dino Villani, can take whatever action it sees fit to protect the pass without having its plans approved by state or federal authorities.
Commission chairman Wayne Harris said he and his fellow commissioners made their unanimous decision knowing full well they could be prosecuted for it.
“We made the decision legislatively to break the laws if necessary. We will do whatever it takes to protect our county’s waterways and we’re prepared to go to jail to do it,” he said.
That freed Villani to take several actions deemed important to further armor the Destin pass without waiting for authorization from the state Emergency Operations Center in Tallahassee and the unified spill command in Mobile.
Commissioners gave him the go-ahead to spend $200,000 to pay for an underwater “air curtain” designed to push oil up where it can be collected and $16,500 a day to operate and maintain it.
He has authority to, without a nod from the U.S. Coast Guard, deploy barges, weighted so that they’ll sit low in the water across the entrance to the pass.
He is also authorized to look into a slip curtain, another underwater oil-catching device.
Though they now have the authority, both Villani and Okaloosa County Administrator Jim Curry said they will continue to work with the state and federal authorities to get their plans approved.
Curry said what the commissioners did Monday was “send a loud and clear message” to the Coast Guard, the state Department of Environmental Protection and others that Okaloosa County’s permit requests should be acted on immediately.