As a resident of the Gulf Coast I am sadden by the oil spill that took place in April and the fact that the spill is still continuing to leak out oil. It has been a month since that tragic day where 11 employees lost their lives on the oil rig. A month that BP has had to clean up the mess. I am tired of reading whose fault it is. I don't really give a damn whose fault it is. All I want it to people to join together and fix the problem. We have some brillant brains in the companies in question and they would quit their bickering for a second and use their brains and come up with a solution instead of trying to put the blame on each other maybe there would had been a solution to the problem.
At the moment most people in the US are not directly affected by the oil spill but those who live near the coast are. Many of us not only live near the coast but we fish for our daily food. There are commercial fishermen along with the sportman fisherman. Now before anyone starts to send hate mail to me you need to understand that those sportsman fisherman also bring home food to their families. We are a family of five and the fish that my husband used to catch would feed us throughout the summer and winter. That allowed us to be able to spend less at the grocery store which in this economy is a good thing. Now since our fish supply is running low since he has not been able to fish I am not sure what we are going to do. Food stamps are out of the question because you basically have to be not working in order to get those. With our three jobs we don't qualify. Also BP says that they are offering jobs to the people who live near the coast and are affected by their giant mess. Well that is great but how come is that I have send in my resume, get a letter promising a position, have a phone call and then return the phone call and leave 20 + messages on voice mail for the person to call me back and they don't even have the decency to call me back and at least let me know that they filled the position. It is like they are even leaving the ones that are hoping for employment hanging. Just like they are leaving the public hanging on what is really going on. So yes I have reason to mistrust what BP and the goverment is saying about the spill. They have gave me reason.
Not only is the spill affecting the lively hood of many on the coast but it is affecting our way of life. Many of us choose to live here despite the hurricanes. We love it down here. Hurricanes we can take but a darn oil spill that BP doesn't seem to be able to clean up is not taken likely.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Monday, May 17, 2010
What is going to happen next?
Why does it seem like when it rains it pours at my house? The first episode was when I slipped in our wonderful Walmart and twisted my ankle. A couple days later David had a heart cath which luckily turned out to be positive and nothing was wrong. Everything look just like it did when they put the stent in back during 2006. Has it been that long? Sunday Gwendolyn broke out in hives. I thought it was from the latex balloons that she got into at the birthday party but it turns out that she has staph. More than likely it is MRSA. We seem to always have a case go through the house around this time of year.
Fast forward to last night. I get off around 7pm and go to pick Gwendolyn up from my mom with the rest of her siblings. She is complaining of her leg hurting but honestly I did not pay much attention to her because she is a drama queen. I know. I feel bad now that I didn't pay attention to her. Well after catching a glimpse of her leg and realizing that it was swollen and red with a bull's eye around the sore I realized that it was bad. Quickly I found a washcloth and heated up in the microwave in order to put a warm compress on her leg. She squeal and jumped in place but finally let me put the compress on the injure spot. I know it had to hurt. Next I gave her some tynelol to help with pain.
She slept through the night but I didn't. Staph in our house means that everyone is going to get it more than likely. This morning she got up and the bump had busted and it was oozing pus. Lots of pus. Yes I know that is disgusting but it is the truth. Not something you want to see before you have had that morning cup of coffee. At that moment I knew we were going to make a trip to the pediatrician.
Update on Gwendolyn:
She appears to have Staph but we do not know if it is MRSA. I am waiting for the doctor to call. They put her on heavy dose of antibotics and ointment.
Fast forward to last night. I get off around 7pm and go to pick Gwendolyn up from my mom with the rest of her siblings. She is complaining of her leg hurting but honestly I did not pay much attention to her because she is a drama queen. I know. I feel bad now that I didn't pay attention to her. Well after catching a glimpse of her leg and realizing that it was swollen and red with a bull's eye around the sore I realized that it was bad. Quickly I found a washcloth and heated up in the microwave in order to put a warm compress on her leg. She squeal and jumped in place but finally let me put the compress on the injure spot. I know it had to hurt. Next I gave her some tynelol to help with pain.
She slept through the night but I didn't. Staph in our house means that everyone is going to get it more than likely. This morning she got up and the bump had busted and it was oozing pus. Lots of pus. Yes I know that is disgusting but it is the truth. Not something you want to see before you have had that morning cup of coffee. At that moment I knew we were going to make a trip to the pediatrician.
Update on Gwendolyn:
She appears to have Staph but we do not know if it is MRSA. I am waiting for the doctor to call. They put her on heavy dose of antibotics and ointment.
Monday, May 3, 2010
Disaster awaits the Gulf Coast
Growing up along the Gulf Coast many times we take for granted what we have here until something threatens our way of life. Hurricanes and tropical storms come and go but oil spills the magnitude of the GOM spill of 2010 is unheard of around my hometown. We know the damage it could cause but is enough being done to prevent it? I know they are trying but the efforts could not withstand mother nature this weekend.
The seas from the Gulf of Mexico flowed right over the buoys that were put up to protect the Alabama Gulf Coast. According to news reports along the Gulf Coast many of these buoys broke apart and are either on the beaches or lost forever. In Orange Beach, AL some of the buoys had broken apart and were on the beaches.
The buoy that was placed to the entrance of Weeks Bay which is close to where my house is located is missing. For those who don't much about Mobile Bay and the Bays that surround it do a little research and you will find some interesting information on this area. Mobile Bay is home to a phenomen called Jubliees. There is only two or three places in the world that this phenomen occurs. If the oil enters the bays not only wildlife and marine life is going to be effected by the very lives of many people are going to be changed forever.
So yesterday we made a trip to the Coastal area of Alabama. A place that I have called home for 40 years. I can't even begin to describe my love for this area except that I talked my husband into moving down here in 2001 with our daughter. Of course it did not take much to talk my husband into coming South. All I had to mention was fishing, scuba diving, and enjoying the ocean every day and the rest is history.
The dangers of the oil spill is lurking all over the Coastal States that surround the Gulf of Mexico. It is sad to think that in a couple of days that our beautiful beaches will be covered in oil. The Gulf will become a Dead Zone for marine life, and the estuaries that surround the coastal bays will be in dangers.
The seas from the Gulf of Mexico flowed right over the buoys that were put up to protect the Alabama Gulf Coast. According to news reports along the Gulf Coast many of these buoys broke apart and are either on the beaches or lost forever. In Orange Beach, AL some of the buoys had broken apart and were on the beaches.
The buoy that was placed to the entrance of Weeks Bay which is close to where my house is located is missing. For those who don't much about Mobile Bay and the Bays that surround it do a little research and you will find some interesting information on this area. Mobile Bay is home to a phenomen called Jubliees. There is only two or three places in the world that this phenomen occurs. If the oil enters the bays not only wildlife and marine life is going to be effected by the very lives of many people are going to be changed forever.
So yesterday we made a trip to the Coastal area of Alabama. A place that I have called home for 40 years. I can't even begin to describe my love for this area except that I talked my husband into moving down here in 2001 with our daughter. Of course it did not take much to talk my husband into coming South. All I had to mention was fishing, scuba diving, and enjoying the ocean every day and the rest is history.
The dangers of the oil spill is lurking all over the Coastal States that surround the Gulf of Mexico. It is sad to think that in a couple of days that our beautiful beaches will be covered in oil. The Gulf will become a Dead Zone for marine life, and the estuaries that surround the coastal bays will be in dangers.
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