Oil spill

[bmccasland]

I hope this doesn't turn out to be another 9/11 in terms of damage to health for those doing cleanup -- and possibly for people who live in affected areas.

Some of the fishermen working on the spill have been hospitalized or treated and released after contact with the oil-corexit mix. I heard on the radio over the weekend that one of the big N.O. local hospitals will be establishing a clinic down on Grand Isle, a populated barrier island which has an oil soaked beach, thus workers present to clean it up. Our days are in the 90's and the workers are going down with heat exhaustion as well getting ill from the fumes. Grand Isle doesn't have the infrastructure to handle all the extra people, it hasn't completely recovered from the 2005 and 2008 hurricanes.