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.