Tampa Area Alert: NOAA forecast shows BP Oil Spill 50 miles from Tampa Bay by June 6

[salazarmms]

Source: NOAA

The section of the oil slick that has exited the Loop Current is drifting eastward towards Florida's west coast at 10 to 15 miles per day.

By June 6, the oil spill boundary is predicted to be approximately 50 miles off the coast of Tampa Bay and Florida's west coast.

Read more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjJFkbh8WN8

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It was 120 miles away from Tampa Bay, then 100. Now only 50 miles, yet nothing ever mentions Tampa.

The Tampa Bay Area... is the second most populous metropolitan area in the State of Florida, the second most populous on the Gulf Coast, the fourth most populous in the Southeast, and the 19th-largest in the United States. -Wikipedia

[niceypoo]

1. Every inch of the gulf will soon be coated with massive amounts of oil

As well as much of the east coast and Caribbean.

Just let the market take care of it

[IndianaGreen]

3. This is a disaster of apocalyptic proportions!

Some areas of the coast, as well as some species of animals, will never recover from this calamity!

[joanmj]

6. For sure!

n/t

[Ganja Ninja]

2. We aren't going to dodge this.

Neither is anybody else on Florida's west coast. That's why I'm sick of Jindal's whining.

[IndianaGreen]

4. It will also impact the Atlantic fisheries

with dire consequences for humankind.

I agree with you about Jindal, but Hayley Barbour is worse!

[nichomachus]

5. Giving a whole new meaning to D-Day.

[liberal N proud]

7. So much for its not going to get here

Just a week ago they were saying the currents would keep the oil from the beaches along mid-Florida.

Just another lie to their mounting pile of gooey crap.

[wordpix]

8. goodbye, manatees

:cry:

[meow mix]

9. does the drugster live there?

i thought he had a place in tampa, close to the shore?

[Dr.Phool]

11. No, he's across the state in Palm Beach..

It will make it's way around there in a few weeks.

[Dr.Phool]

10. I guess I ate the last of my Cedar Key clams last week-end.

I went kayaking in Weeki Wachi. The water was crystal clear, and the manatees swam by so close you could touch them. That's their part of the Gulf. And I fear for them. We go down the Anclote River, and see dolphins and bald eagles. I'm going to miss them.

Fucking criminals!

[JCMach1]

12. :( was just there last summer... can't imagine the damage coming to my home state...