[Wolfie]

Bah. Can’t be that bad if they’re going to resume drilling.

[Ann Archy]

FEMA.....This is the FIRST time I have seen FEMA in an article about the GULF SPILL!!!! WHERE HAVE THEY BEEN?? WHO the HELL is in charge of FEMA??? I have NO IDEA of the name!!!

[DuncanWaring]

Ping.

[stuartcr]

Just think how much crap the WH would get, if plans were not in place...

[Larry - Moe and Curly]

The start of the movement of Americans into “FEMA Camps” under the guise of saving them? Hmmmmmm......

[Pessimist]

Plan != “Begin”

[Nachum]

My imagination is running on overdrive at the moment.

Would someone intentionally create an ecological disaster to force a large scale transfer of population from the gulf region?

Just sayin'

[gunnyg]

waste not and improve any crisis....
-evil unlimited

[Whenifhow]

So they are going to evacuate Tampa - what about Louisiana?
I am beginning to wonder if the folks in LA are considered expendable like those in Haiti.

video
KIndra Arnesen @ the Gulf Emergency Summit

http://video.godlikeproductions.com/video/Kindra_Arnesan_-_Quoted_on_PBS_Newshour_6232010

[faucetman]

Would these plans be necessary if Obama had allowed foreign ships to suck up oil for the last 60 days?

[N. Theknow]

The media ought to be shaken down to put up a multi-billion dollar fund for over-hyping this crap and destroying the Florida Gulf Coast tourist industry.

We've been to the Gulf off St. Pete Beach (which is on the West side of Tampa Bay with Tampa sitting on the east side of the bay) and there is not one drop of oil to be seen anywhere!

The only thing we HAVE seen is a lot of Florida license plates and damn few out of state license plates.

Even Gulf coast restaurants are giving Florida resident discounts and coupons to "please come back soon."

The way the media, and even the local talking heads on Tampa TV stations are guilty of over-hype, are covering this, one would expect to find oil in drinking fountains and bottled water.

And Sean Hannity is the worst! Every show I've heard of his, he talks about how the oil is going to destroy the Florida's Gulf Coast, Keys, East Coast and all up the entire Eastern Seaboard of the US before it heads for the UK.

And now there is a "wave" that MIGHT become a tropical depression/storm/hurricane and MIGHT be really-really-really BAD.

Someone told me about the "pending storm" yesterday and I told them:

"Until NautiNurse on Free Republic mentions it, there is NO STORM!"

[BenLurkin]

Evacuate? Why?

[greatplains]

The Government DOES have a plan - it’s in the EPA regs, Title 40, Chapter 1, Subchapter J, Part 300:

http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&sid=4273f9fb83b42a910c3da4b4b1427110&rgn=div6&view=text&node=40:27.0.1.1.1.2&idno=40

So where has all this activity been? Wouldn’t we have heard of this by NOW??

[libertarian27]

....there have been more than a million gallons of chemicals poured into the Gulf of Mexico in efforts to break up the spill. The chemicals have come under scrutiny because of their own toxic nature.

So we could have oil AND toxic chemical fires? Just lovely....

Has the EPA determined yet if those Millions of gallons of chemicals they added are relatively safe if fire is applied? This is a Circle-J...

[SWAMPSNIPER]

The feds are just itching for a chance to demonstrate power!

[nutmeg]

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[Eye of Unk]

We should rename the Gulf of Mexico for the time being as, “The Obama Dead Sea”.

I bet a lot of people are thinking seriously of moving to Arizona about now, or worse yet my neck of the woods Alaska.

[Eye of Unk]

Oil lurks beneith sand at Pensacola beach. http://www.tampabay.com/SearchForwardServlet.do?articleId=1104804