we went on a BEACHVENTUR

[mistressindi]

or, Thirty Things I Learned On bleukarma's Summer Vacation
By Indi (Age Ten)

1. If I were a Ghostbuster, I would be Ray2. Fish pee in the ocean. So do toddlers

Comments

[gonzo21]

Sounds fun.

Oh, is that oil slick in danger of hitting Florida btw?

[mistressindi]

Yeah, it is. Probably further south than I am, but nobody can say for sure where the oil will land.

It's got into the loop current so it'll probably hit the Keys, maybe some of the Caribbean islands, and then get spread into the Atlantic.

[gonzo21]

It sounded a bit like the dispersants BP were pumping into the spill deep underwater to stop it surfacing is just going to make things a whole lot worse, but because it won't be visible on the surface a whole lot worse, the news media won't have pictures of dead animals, therefore they get away with it more.

[mistressindi]

I'm wrong - they have put an estimate on the sludge. Eight to ten days to hit the Keys, according to this article.

Now they're trying to figure out whether bits will shear off the sides of the current and hit the rest of the state, or if it'll all get washed down to one place. They're looking at what the dispersants have done, too.

There have been reports of dead whales, dolphins, and turtles, but I'd bet the worst damage will be much later on, once this crap has got into the food chain and the higher-up animals start dying off en masse.

[spartanwerewolf]

Intriguing. When I find dead things inside shells, I wiggle them out and dissect them. There's a duck egg at my parent's acreage that I wanted to crack open and my dad was like "NO! IT WILL STINK" and I was all :( "You wouldn't let me dissect the dead duck we found when I was 9 either."

...I was a weird child.

[mistressindi]

It had been sitting in the sun for a while. It was... ripe.

I washed my hands, after!

[latentalent]

Narnia does not accept key cards.

Since WHEN‽

[mistressindi]

Since Saturday! It had a keycard swiper, so I tried mine, and it didn't work.

Then just to show 'em I kept my card. TAKE THAT, MEAN HOTEL.