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Gulf Coast Restoration Chief Ray Mabus has No Oil Spill Answers Just Yet
Nola.com ^ | 6/30/2010 | Frank Donze

Posted on 06/30/2010 3:19:43 PM PDT by Qbert

If Louisianians were hoping to get a clearer picture of the federal government's strategy for fixing their battered coast in the wake of the Gulf oil spill, they didn't get much help Tuesday from the Obama administration's new point man for Gulf Coast restoration, who made his first visit to the area since taking the post.

Hours after a flyover of the oil-stained Louisiana shoreline Tuesday, former Mississippi Gov. and current Navy Secretary Ray Mabus delivered this sobering message: Don't look for specifics anytime soon.

With a White House game plan for fixing the economic and ecological damage from the BP oil spill still in the formative stages, Mabus -- who has said very little publicly since being named to the new position two weeks ago -- asked for patience from residents of the four states reeling from the catastrophe.

"I understand that people are very, very concerned about today - about the here and now - and that it's hard to focus on something that may happen a month from now or two months from now or even years from now," Mabus said during a news conference at New Orleans Lakefront Airport.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: la; oilspill
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To: Qbert

Why are we letting this a-hole and his administation get away with this B.S.

I can’t understand we we aren’t protesting in the streets about this oil spill, this should be job one for everyone in this country, why aren’t we making these people do the right thing.

This is astounding, we have the technology at our disposal to mitigate most of the impact of the oil and virtually nothing is being done and it’s just Ho Hum just another day.

I’m outraged.


21 posted on 06/30/2010 5:05:19 PM PDT by VTenigma
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To: aruanan

Hurricanes make a large dome of water, the storm surge. Hurricanes also disturb and churn waters at deep levels. Perhaps a large pool of methane gas would be scattered harmlessly within a hurricane. Perhaps not.

I certainly hope you are right, but I’m not going to be here to find out first hand.


22 posted on 06/30/2010 5:10:46 PM PDT by chris37
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To: chris37
Hurricanes make a large dome of water, the storm surge.

The principal cause of the storm surge is wind. That's on the leading edge of the hurricane as it approaches land. If a hurricane were to approach directly to the northeast an area like the panhandle of Florida where it breaks to the Florida peninsula, the area on the panhandle side of the hurricane will have a lowering of water due to the wind blowing away from the land; the land on the peninusular side will experience a surge due to the wind blowing toward the land.
23 posted on 06/30/2010 5:57:21 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: aruanan

That is not necessarily the case, aruanan. From my understanding, storm surge is caused by both wind and low atmospheric pressure. Underneath the hurricane, the level of seawater is actually raised up. While the hurricane is in deeper waters, wind is able to blow some of this water away, but as it approaches shallow waters, the mountain of water builds up as it cannot escape, and then comes ashore as a rapidly rising tide.

But it is the rising sea out in the open that concerns me, because that water is sucked upwards. It is here that I am worried deep pools of escaped methane could come into play. Maybe it will not happen. I certainly hope that this is the case, I don’t want to see anything like this.


24 posted on 06/30/2010 7:39:03 PM PDT by chris37
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To: chris37
From my understanding, storm surge is caused by both wind and low atmospheric pressure.

The lower atmospheric pressure is considered to exert a minor, secondary effect in the formation of the storm surge.

It is here that I am worried deep pools of escaped methane could come into play.

As soon as any methane would leave the sea in the eye of the hurricane, it would rapidly leave the eye with all the other air circulating down through the eye and exit with it up through the eye wall and be dissipated across the hundreds of thousands of square miles of the storm system. Any gas that is released from an relatively gas-impermeable container (like a tank or a balloon or a colon) will rapidly diffuse into the surrounding gases of the atmosphere (this is why a fart smells more intense in a car than in an auditorium).
25 posted on 07/01/2010 3:37:21 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: fooman
MABUS is working on the oil spill???!!!!

Any relation to Jeebus?
26 posted on 07/01/2010 3:38:38 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: aruanan

Mabus is a political hack. He don’t know nuffin from oil spills.


27 posted on 07/01/2010 3:45:24 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: Qbert

a gutless weasel


28 posted on 07/01/2010 3:46:23 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Mabus is a political hack. He don’t know nuffin from oil spills.

So he's about as real as Homer's Jeebus.
29 posted on 07/01/2010 4:01:17 AM PDT by aruanan
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