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E COLI CONSERVATIVES HIT HOME
Submitted by Fernando on Fri, 08/17/2007 - 4:10pm.
I'm no stranger to the unique aspects of living in Texas. This story threw even jaded old me into a tailspin.
I planned to stay with my mom for a few days this weekend. I love to drive through Texas. You never know what will happen next. I was especially excited to drive through the tropical depression named Erin, although it turned out to be mild compared to the adventure I expected. I was confident that Erin would be the adventure of this trip. Wrong.
Don't get me wrong. It's always memorable when you have to shield yourself behind a metal column from the high velocity rain bullets while pumping diesel in the few places that offer it. This story isn't about fuel insecurity, or the global warming powered wind velocity, or the amount of flooding rain received, or the 7 deaths blamed on Erin. This story is about the water itself inside of Erin.
I get into town just after noon to warnings not to BRUSH MY TEETH with city water. Bathing is even a risk I'm told. The water here is contaminated with e coli. Restaurants and residents are told to boil the water because the water isn't safe to drink. Water, water, everywhere, but not a drop to drink.
South Texas, because of Republican oversight, can no longer wag tongue at any importing country for their environmental practices. The Gulf of Mexico appears putrid and squalid as if the whole shoreline is drowning in e coli sewage. And that’s exactly what it is, e-coli sewage. So look into this if you plan on visiting and bathing in any of our beaches. Under heavy weather conditions, the water is carried far inland. Check this and this out.
Rain here should now be labeled a biohazard. The dumping of waste and toxic chemicals into our waterways and coastal regions has reached Chinese proportions. To make matters worse, the danger is not even reported in a timely manner needlessly risking the health of the citizens here.
I remember as a boy, when Government kinda worked. A hurricane would blow through and the day afterwards city crews would be hard at work making us all feel warm and secure. Today, any gust of wind carrying noxious water is all it could take to wipe out your family. Heck of a job George.
Be advised: I see reasons to belive the entire warm gulf stream is in this peril clear out to Scottland.
Watch Dean come into the gulf on the GOES Visible Gulf Java Applet Loop
UPDATE: Added tracking and Humidity charts with real time tracking. Post auto updates.
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Man Fernando,
I never thought of that really,but it sure makes sense!Galveston must reak!Bummer..
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Regulations,We Don't Need No Stinking Regulations! Ah..,Yes We Do!
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Its not good MMR
I'm looking at Dean and it's not looking good.
Toxic Surfs Up !! :(
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Fern
Where does your Mom live?If you don't mind me asking..
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On the Gulf
Coast of Texas, Corpus Christi. I'm there now MMR.
Cool town & beaches
I have a friend who lives there from my Airline Ramp agent days!
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Dave Rissmiller..Be funny if you were nieghbors.Hee..Not likely..
Is your Mom going to hang out during the storm?Or,you don't know yet..
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Gail Sheehy Profile On Candidate Busch
It's waaaay too long to post here, but none of this is new.
This Gail Sheehy Vanity Fair piece, from October of 2000, profile of Texas Governor Busch describes at length just how toxic and evil Busch was in Texas, which tell me that what we're seeing with the examples you cite here are part of a large and on-going pattern.
It's about two-thirds of the way down in the Sheehy piece where you'll find this paragraph:
"Odessa, Texas, is the backyard of Midland—in every way. It is where the dirty services of the local oil and petrochemical industries are performed. The industry executives live in Midland. The working people live in Odessa. It is where the Bush family first set up housekeeping in 1948, a couple of miles from a petrochemical plant built in 1956 that is now the sixth-worst polluter in the state of Texas. But the Bush family has long been gone, and a few years ago even the Texas agency responsible for environmental control of air and water moved out of Odessa and over to Midland, leaving no forwarding number. That was after the plant was bought up in 1997 by Huntsman, the largest privately owned petrochemical company in the country, which expanded the plant's capacity for making plastic pellets.
Start there and keep reading until the end and it will maker your skin crawl.
If only more people had read that article when it came out, I only discovered it about a year after Katrina....
~Nyc
Fox News... We Report... You Deride
No doubt
Pen Warmed in Hell, I certainly don't believe Texas is as clean as when Ann was our Governor. I miss Ann.
Pen Warmed In Hell
Submitted by A Pen Warmed In Hell on Sat, 08/18/2007 - 5:50pm.
It's waaaay too long to post here, but none of this is new.
This Gail Sheehy Vanity Fair piece, from October of 2000, profile of Texas Governor Busch describes at length just how toxic and evil Busch was in Texas, which tell me that what we're seeing with the examples you cite here are part of a large and on-going pattern.
Thanks for the LINK
C9