A short YouTube Video -- "The UnCola Prez"
Posted on 06/16/2010 10:40:31 PM PDT by Qbert
Residents in Josephine and Perdido Beach are using what they have -- hay and agricultural netting -- to create booms to protect the coastlines of their remote Baldwin County communities. The idea, and the speed of boom making, greatly increased when a Christmas tree farm donated one of its bundling machines. The amateur boom makes saw their production go from 8 to 40 booms an hour. It all started when a customer of Baldwin County Sewer Service called requesting a donation of hay, according to system spokesman Charlie Baumhauer. Finding out that the hay would be used to collect oil, the utility donated 800 bales to Pirate's Cove and 200 bales to the Perdido Beach Fire Department. Area residents began shredding the hay and manually stuffing it into socks made of agricultural netting. "It was a really slow process, they could only make about eight an hour because they had to sew them together by hand," Baumhauer said. Word of this reached the Fish River Christmas Tree farm, which donated its tree wrapping apparatus to the effort. Production of hay booms promptly shot up to 40 booms an hour, Baumhauer said. A tour of Pirate's Cove Marina show hay booms stacked near the water, ready to be deployed should heavy oil arrive. Residents said only a light sheen of oil had been detected so far.
Yep private action beats the government almost any time.
Makes you proud to be an American, doesn’t it?
Good old American ingenuity. Wonderful. Bravo.
If those boys ain’t careful, they just might get arrested for violating some federal law.
Once upon a time we believed our government and worked with it and our neighbors for the common good.
I grew up respecting the WWII vets and the war effort US citizens supported them with. God Bless Rosie the Riveter.
We can’t go back to those days, but those of us with the memory can set the example of faith and citizenship.
I was wondering the other day why they weren’t doing this elsewhere....like Louisiana....
“Once upon a time we believed our government and worked with it and our neighbors for the common good.
I grew up respecting the WWII vets and the war effort US citizens supported them with. God Bless Rosie the Riveter.
We can’t go back to those days, but those of us with the memory can set the example of faith and citizenship.”
Amen to that- I couldn’t have said it better.
If people come together and accomplish without the government, the government will becom non-entity in their minds.
Marcellus to the outgoing centurian in "Ben Hur" ...
"You once asked how do you fight an idea ... I will show you, ..
With another idea".
Ideas, once in place do not go away, that's why they MUST have the NEA and government schools.
My goodness, an Alabama community that didn’t need organizing to solve a problem...
Yes we are and I bet we could build that border fence too.
Wonder did they get a BamBamKennedy UNION approved EPA permit?
Knowing how well oil sticks to live birds... someone should call the big chicken processors and farms and see about getting feathers.
Clever!
Sad but true. The EPA will find some obscure rule that they are in violation of (maybe the hayseed-saltwater act of 2010) and fine the crap out of them as well as confiscate their hay. The IRS will levy fines for not hiring enough illegals, the unions will get involved, Jesse Jackson will decry the lack of commumity organization...
I'm sure some government union somewhere is girding their loins as we speak.
Magnolia Springs AL, did the same thing in self protection. The Fire Chief oversaw the implementation. They had a townhall meeting to discuss various ideas, and took action!!!
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