Crops Dying Inland Along Gulf Coast.

[Blue State Bandit]

Run time: 02:25 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djvEqCWK1zU   Posted on YouTube: June 10, 2010 By YouTube Member: VitaVeritasVictoria Views on YouTube: 676   Posted on DU: June 23, 2010 By DU Member: Blue State Bandit Views on DU: 1086

 
I was watching Kpete's posted video about the "Oil Rains", and I came across this disturbing news report. I have not heard about this, but this poses an ominous question.

How far inland will this plague spread? What happens if a hurricane, or even a weak tropical depression rides up from the Gulf along the Appalachian Mountains? We could be looking at a wholesale destruction of not just 1/5th to 1/4th of this year's crops, but the spoilage of the very soil that supports those crops year after year.

This is not a disease, because it is affecting organic and chem-raised crops, weeds, trees, and even birds. This is not the breakwaters. This is inland.

First it was just the fishing industry. Now we have to worry about our South-Eastern farms.

Talk about a self-fulfilling prophecy...

[Botany]

1. thank you Dick Cheney

:cry:

[Angry Dragon]

2. This has been one of my biggest worries

I was/am afraid of the disperants more than the oil being brought inland and affecting large portions of land and crops.
With that I am worried about health issues.
You will never see it coming.

[Blue State Bandit]

3. I heard some refer to the spill as our...

Chernobyl. This just adds to the validity of that comparison. We now have something comparable to a fall-out cloud eminating from the spill.

I agree with you on the possibility that dispersant being sprayed from the air could be the culprit here, but I think that it's worse than that.

Much of the oil that makes it to the surface, according to a multitude of reports coming from the scene, is evaporating into the atmosphere. Most of the rain that falls along the eastern seaboard originates from water evaporated in the Gulf and and squeezed out by energies from the west and lower temps from the north.

We could be looking at thousands of tons of evaporated chemicals, including dispersant, saturating everything that this toxic rain falls on. From the Mississippi to the East Coast, and as far north as Pennsylvania and New York.

This is a disaster, on top of an apocalypse.

[Angry Dragon]

5. The oil will break down over time

how much time I do not know.

The dispersant does not break down as easy and it is more toxic than the oil. That is why it scares me more.
The last I heard is that they have sprayed over 120,000,000 gallons so far.
Never before have they come close to this number and they have no idea
what affect it will have on anything.

[Blue Owl]

4. Only the beginning

of the magical deathworld they call "Big Oil."

[Lorien]

6. Note that no one voices the obvious

never happened before corexit was sprayed, did it?

[Joanne98]

7. I got white dots on my peas but I'm in Ohio.

[Uncle Joe]

8. That's so widespread, it must be either the air or toxic rain.

Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Blue State Bandit

[JoeyT]

9. It looks like some kind of blight.

Southern Corn Leaf Blight to be specific, for the corn.
The "White dust" on the plums looks like spider mite webs.

The resolution is kind of low for the video, so it's hard to be certain.

[Kali]

11. I live in Arizona

but I bet my wilted squash is from air born toxic oil





:eyes:

[JoeyT]

13. I bet a tornado brought it up there!

The resolution on the video isn't really good enough to positively identify anything, but they certainly look like common pests/blights.
I'm not sure why they haven't taken samples of their damaged crops to the county or state agriculture office. They may not be able to tell them exactly what it is, but they can tell them what it isn't if it isn't a common pest.

[Kali]

14. I think the real blight is lack of common sense, scientific comprehension,

and hysteria. Frankly this is pretty embarrassing. There is a huge disaster happening, this kind of foolishness does not help anything.

[JoeyT]

15. Yep. All the things like this are actually

doing BP a favor. It may not help them in court, but it *will* be used in the PR war.
When it's pointed out BP tried to (or did) get out of paying for the damage they caused on the Gulf, it's going to be repeated ad infinitum how all those people tried to "cash in" on it, while the MSM will be insinuating that that's exactly what all the damaged parties are doing. And if they don't do it fast enough, BP will just take out "advertising" with them until they do.

"The cancer rate in Louisiana tripled in a five year period." "Yeah, but what about the people in North Dakota that swore aphid damage was caused by the oil?!"

[Devil_Fish]

10. I bet it is related to the oil rain here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x478362

[Selatius]

12. Rates of cancer are going to rise to astronomical levels if Corexit is evaporating into the air.

This really could be our equivalent of Chernobyl. Entire swaths of land would be rendered uninhabitable.