"There's a great black wave in the middle of the sea for me, for you..."

[greygirlbeast]

It's hard to think of much of anything right now but the catastrophe unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico, the oil still spewing from the broken pipe five-thousand feet below the remains of the Deepwater Horizon. It's pretty much a given, at this point, that coastal ecosystems and economies from Louisiana to western Florida will be devastated. Now, I'm

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[robyn_ma]

The picture of Hubero reminds me of this.

[mrs_ralph]

I'm not following the oil spill closely but it seems like they are responding to it awfully slowly as compared to other spills down through the years. I hope this won't be another levee failure scenario...I don't think anyone could handle that.

[greygirlbeast]

I'm not following the oil spill closely but it seems like they are responding to it awfully slowly as compared to other spills down through the years. I hope this won't be another levee failure scenario...I don't think anyone could handle that.

My impression is that part of this stems from British Petroleum's lack of cooperation. Also, will note that the Secretary of the Interior has acknowledged that the scale of the disaster is likely beyond what technology is, essentially, capable of containing or cleaning up after. Which is probably true.

[mrs_ralph]

It is pretty much beyond the scope of simple spill containment (I used to do pick up labour assembling floating containment systems) but I am surprised they are waiting for BP. Normally they would have called in the Civil Engineers and possibly the Coast Guard to help stop the leak itself and billed BP later. I feel like BP has a confict of interest when it comes to leaving it up to them to deal with this in any case. They need an organisation in there that doesn't have a financial interest so they can take the most expedient action instead of fiddle farting around trying to fgure out how to stop the leak without damaging profits.

[nathan_long]

Yay for Howard Pyle. One of my favorite painters. Nice choice!

[greygirlbeast]

Yep. I adore Pyle.

[egologic]

http://www.delart.org/collections/pyle_illus/index.html

Delaware's not so far from Rhode Island. And in the same general area is Longwood Gardens, Winterthur, Nemours and the Brandywine River Museum (with their collection of Wyeth family paintings including N.C. who was a student of Pyle's).