Thursday, June 17, 2010
Gulf to Pensacola
THU June 17
Traded the heat, humidity and rains of New Orleans for a beautiful drive along the Gulf coast to NAS Pensacola arriving just in time to enjoy heat, humidity and rain so hard I had to slow down to 10 MPH.
I headed east from New Orleans to Bay St. Louis, Pass Christian, Gulfport and then back to the Interstate a Biloxi and onward to Pensacola.
I first pulled off to go to the NASA John C. Stennis Space Center that bills itself as America’s largest rocket test complex. I wanted to take their tour but as luck would have it they were closed today for a “NASA Event”.
Please do not take the following comments as in any way diminishing the environmental and economic problems brought on by the Deep Water Horizon.
I saw my first oil spill containment boom from the bridge leaving Bay St. Louis to Pass Christian. It seemed to be deployed as preventative in case the oil moved toward the bay; saw other booms at a couple of other bayous where they opened to the Gulf.
What I did see was a lot of clean beaches and only 2 clean-up workers strolling down the waterline.
I thought Pass Christian was a beautiful town with columned homes facing the Gulf, oh for the money to be able to afford to own and vacation. And afford the hurricane insurance.
In Gulfport MS I did see many workers being trained in how to do cleanup. I knew it was training by their number; they weren’t picking anything up and there were people swimming in the gulf where they were along the beach.
I also saw the broken tree art done by Marlin Miller and Dayton Scroggins,
http://www.gulfcoastnews.com/GCNnewsMillerSculpture012209.htm , and thought about the saying lemons and lemonade.
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