do u know what it means to miss New Orleans?

willtrib

So I guess you all have heard about the tanker spill in New Orleans (right in front of my house!)

First katrina now this; I can't get a break aye?



This time I won't settle so easy; this time it is gonna cost um!
(filed two law suites)

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willtrib

Workers struggle to clean up oil spill on MississippiWASHINGTON (AFP)

— The US Coast Guard and clean-up crews were struggling Saturday to rid the Mississippi River of hundreds of thousands of gallons (liters) of spilled fuel oil and unclog a backup of commercial traffic.

(483K gallons)
Nearly 800 people in several oil removal operations were busy containing the spill with booms and removing what they could from the water, as a limited number of vessels were being allowed through the affected area in southern Louisiana.
The Coast Guard had closed off a 100-mile (160-kilometer) stretch of the river, from the port of New Orleans down to the Gulf of Mexico, after the oil tanker Tintomara collided Wednesday with an American Commercial Lines barge that was being pushed by a tug boat.
"The (Coast Guard's) Unified Command is working diligently to ensure personal safety, to expedite pollution mitigation efforts and to resume commercial traffic as soon as practically possible," the Coast Guard said in a statement.
"A plan to salvage the barge is being developed."
The 600-foot (183-meter) oil tanker sustained no damage but the crash split the barge nearly in two, and the thick, smelly oil poured into the river just off the banks of downtown New Orleans.
A total of 188,000 feet (57,000 meters) of boom was spread up and down the river bed and around the barge in order to contain the oil, the Coast Guard said.
New Orleans city officials promised residents that the drinking water was safe, even as a chemical odor wafted over the waterfront city and scientists set up a rescue operation for oily birds and animals.
But some people including the head of the port of New Orleans were griping that authorities were not working fast enough to get the vital waterway open to commercial traffic.
The spill's effects and the closure of the port were costing the region a massive 275 million dollars per day, the New Orleans Times-Picayune cited port president Gary LaGrange as saying Friday
Ninety-five vessels were waiting to transit the river as of mid-day Saturday, the Coast Guard reported.
It was unclear how long the port would remain closed.
The operators of the tugboat did not have the proper license to be operating on the river, said the Coast Guard on Friday, after launching an investigation along with the National Transportation Safety Board.
The New Orleans Times-Picayune reported Saturday that the company operating the "Mel Oliver," the tugboat that was pushing the barge in Wednesday's accident, had another of its tugs sink in a Mississippi River collision just 11 days earlier.
The paper said the Ruby E sank July 12, about four miles (six kilometers) upriver from Wednesday's accident, after colliding with another boat.

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green_nobody

what a mess


"The operators of the tugboat did not have the proper license to be operating on the river, said the Coast Guard on Friday, after launching an investigation along with the National Transportation Safety Board." - if that the case i sure hope that he is well insured at least as this clean up will come with a more then just hefty bill, just the daily financial damage due to the closed ports is astronomical, leave alone the cost of the actual clean up of 100 miles of Mississippi.

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Fetsco

I saw pictures of when they ran a tanker ship into the shopping center on canal street. I thought that was kinda funny. It sucks that all that oil is going to wash back into the delta and eventually the gulf. Lots of wildlife will be affected.
Whats the Big Easy like these days? Been there twice in 99/00 and it was great.
Did the city get its spark back? It was a blast back then. The French Quarter was a lot of fun.

willtrib

Lot has changed since 2000; the city will never be the same again i fear.
As of now the Quarter is the Quarter, but no smoking in restaurants, & a few too many tee shops. Tourism was doing some better of late; but the oil is a blow.

Out of the Quarter it is a war zone;

2 years after


from a "Documentury" from NOLA (there are real life 'homemade' video's on youtube that are way more telling/shocking ect.;

Strong Language EXPLICIT CONTENT

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