Help me out here, did anyone else see this? I saw on one of the

[rzemanfl]

major news web sites a statement that the oil was "...expected to hit the crowded beaches of Clearwater, Tampa and Sarasota by the end of the month." When I went back it was gone-I assume because of calls from irate Chamber of Commerce folks. I did not imagine this-I live just north of Clearwater near the Gulf. Did anyone else catch this? I think it was sometime between 10 and noon today.

ON EDIT- I stand partially corrected, I did read this today, but not on one of the major news sites, it said "could" rather than expected and Tampa came before, not after Clearwater. I got distracted and then confused.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. This is the only post I saw:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4409496

[Whoa_Nelly]

2. Here's where you want to go to keep up

http://www.geoplatform.gov/erma.html#x=-90.42000&y=28.03000&z=6&layers=1616

New website just now coming out

[rzemanfl]

3. Thanks. I just hate to be saying something was scrubbed from

the net based only on my seeing it.

[obxhead]

4. latest I heard (radio today) was

Pensacola in the next 3 to 5 days.

I had read Monday that the oil was 20 miles off the coast of Tampa as of that day.

Sorry I have no sources for you. Well, the Pensacola thing was heard on 107.7 WTOP in DC if you wanted to hunt for it.

[elehhhhna]

5. it's also iirc 150 miles off parts of TX

[OnionPatch]

6. So it really is hitting home now.

I lived in Pinellas County for 9 years. When I think of Fort De Soto Park covered in oil, I want to cry. The great blue herons, the reddish egrets, the oystercatchers and skimmers. Snappers and redfish and manatees. My God. :cry: