Man-Made Disasters
I drive a car. I use gas. I like having gas at a price I can afford so I can drive my car where I want to go. To do that we need oil and we drill off shore for oil so our cars go and we can get where we want and need to go.
On April 20th 2010 an explosion of the Deepwater Horizon exploration rig killed 11 workers and released a unknown amount of oil into the Gulf of Mexico right off of the coast of New Orleans. The oil slick have increased two-fold in the past couple of days and the line that is pumping the oil into the gulf is still not capped. The safety measures have not steamed the tide of black crude that is rushing towards very valuable and irreplaceable habitat. It will, probably, wipe out both oyster beds and shrimp farms and the livelihood of many down in the gulf who had just gotten back on their feet from the natural disaster of the hurricanes that ripped through there.
We are not going to know the extent of the damage for sometime. Until they can cap the pipe, oil will continue to pump out into the gulf and now it is starting to threaten the Atlantic. There is going to be a lot of shouting and finger pointing and new regulations but we all know that the possibility exists for this to happen again.
My sympathies and prayers go out to all the people affected by this and to the families and friends who lost loved ones in the explosion on the rig.
There was a car bomb in Time Square that, if it had gone off, could have caused some serious damage and death in the heart of New York City. Because someone saw something and said something, a disaster was averted. We were also lucky that the bomb miss-fired. It should have gone off by the time that the street vendor saw the smoke coming from it. It was at 6:30 when there are a lot of people in Time Square going to dinner or to shows. If it had gone off, the damage would have been there for a long time to come. It was set up for maximum fireball and shrapnel to wound and kill and burn.
The economic effect of this is not going to be known for a while. Lion King didn’t go on. Businesses were shut down and people were evacuated from hotels. Other shows opened late but there is still going to be a ripple effect from this.
I am grateful that the bomb didn’t go off for many reasons.
On April 20th 2010 an explosion of the Deepwater Horizon exploration rig killed 11 workers and released a unknown amount of oil into the Gulf of Mexico right off of the coast of New Orleans. The oil slick have increased two-fold in the past couple of days and the line that is pumping the oil into the gulf is still not capped. The safety measures have not steamed the tide of black crude that is rushing towards very valuable and irreplaceable habitat. It will, probably, wipe out both oyster beds and shrimp farms and the livelihood of many down in the gulf who had just gotten back on their feet from the natural disaster of the hurricanes that ripped through there.
We are not going to know the extent of the damage for sometime. Until they can cap the pipe, oil will continue to pump out into the gulf and now it is starting to threaten the Atlantic. There is going to be a lot of shouting and finger pointing and new regulations but we all know that the possibility exists for this to happen again.
My sympathies and prayers go out to all the people affected by this and to the families and friends who lost loved ones in the explosion on the rig.
There was a car bomb in Time Square that, if it had gone off, could have caused some serious damage and death in the heart of New York City. Because someone saw something and said something, a disaster was averted. We were also lucky that the bomb miss-fired. It should have gone off by the time that the street vendor saw the smoke coming from it. It was at 6:30 when there are a lot of people in Time Square going to dinner or to shows. If it had gone off, the damage would have been there for a long time to come. It was set up for maximum fireball and shrapnel to wound and kill and burn.
The economic effect of this is not going to be known for a while. Lion King didn’t go on. Businesses were shut down and people were evacuated from hotels. Other shows opened late but there is still going to be a ripple effect from this.
I am grateful that the bomb didn’t go off for many reasons.