June 29, 2010
Maryann Tobin, Examiner.com, reported that FEMA has plans for the evacuation of the Tampa Bay area.
Updated 6/29/2010
(TAMPA, Fla.) – There’s no question that the Gulf oil spill is the biggest environmental disaster in the history of this country and maybe the world.
FEMA has plans to evacuate the Tampa Bay area in the event of a controlled burn of surface oil in the Gulf of Mexico, or if wind or other conditions are expected to take toxic fumes through Tampa Bay, according to a report by Maryann Tobin in the Hernando County Political Buzz Examiner.
Tobin has been a freelance writer for more than twenty years, writing for local publications in New York and Florida. Maryann Tobin’s news story has generated high reader interest. It’s obvious that the Gulf oil spill continues to be the leading story in the media as long as the oil well remains uncapped and the threat of exposure to environmental hazards like benezene exists.
For Maryann Tobin’s news story on the FEMA plan to evacuate Tampa, see: Florida Gulf oil spill: Plans to evacuate Tampa Bay area are in place – examiner.com Maryann Tobin has been following the BP oil spill with a series of short, hard hitting news stories for weeks. Click on this link for access to some of Tobin’s news stories on the Gulf spill: Search Results for “mary ann tobin gulf oil” – examiner.com
FEMA may use their hurricane evacuation plan for Tamp and other cities on the Gulf. Tobin reported that, “plans would be announced in the event of a controlled burn of surface oil in the Gulf of Mexico, or if wind or other conditions are expected to take toxic fumes through Tampa Bay.”
Art Horn, a metrologist from Manchester, Connecticut, writing in Energy Tribune on June 21st used the term “Oilcane” to describe the effects of hurriane winds on the oil in the Gulf from the BP’s gusher, “Should a major hurricane push the spill towards the gulf coast there will be nothing that can be done to stop it. No amount of planning or engineering will help. No number of visits to the gulf by the president or any other official will stop the inevitable. The storm surge will drive the water and the oil miles inland.” Click on the following link to access Horn’s complete article, “An Oilicane?” See: http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm/4398/An-Oilicane?
If you’re a conspiracy advocate and I’m not, you may see some devious FEMA plot to do away with people. In fact, if the crude oil nears Tampa Bay and burn off is used on the oil spill, there may be health risk of inhalation exposure to inhabitants. It follows that evacuation as in the case of a hurricane is a logical alternative. An informed source told us on June 25th that there were reports of the smell of oil in the Tampa Bay area. Real or imaginations running wild?
Joel Achenback, Washington Post staff writer, in an article of June 23rd entitled “Each Day Another Way to Define Worst-Case for Oil Spill,” reported that Matt Simmons, founder of Simmons and Co., an oil investment firm and “and since the April 20 blowout, the unflagging source of end-of-the-world predictions. “Can you imagine evacuating 20 million people? . . . This story is 80 times worse than I thought.”
The only thing for sure is that this story is not going away as long as the well is unplugged and the crude oil continues to spread into the Gulf.
Chemicals in crude oil and dispersants can cause a wide range of health effects in people and wildlife, depending on the level of exposure and susceptibility. Crude oil has many highly toxic chemical ingredients that can damage every system in the body. Dispersant chemicals can affect many of the same organs. For more information on this, see: Gulf Oil Spill Health Hazards – sciencecorps.org/ The email contact for Maryann Tobin is tobin522@gmail.com.
REFERENCES
Methane in Gulf “astonishingly high”: U.S. scientist, Reuters, June 22nd, See: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65L6IA20100622.
CITIZEN JOURNALISTS NEEDED FOR OIL SPILL CRISIS MAP
Tool Will Show Government, Responders Where Help is Needed Most
http://www.labucketbrigade.org/article.php?id=579
OIL SPILL CRISIS MAP, http://www.oilspill.labucketbrigade.org/
Gulf Oil Gusher: Danger of Tsunamis From Methane? DK Matai.Chairman: mi2g, ATCA, The Philanthropia, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dk-matai/gulf-of-mexico-danger-of_b_619095.html. According to geologists, the first signs that the methane may burst its way through the bottom of the ocean would be manifest via fissures or cracks appearing on the ocean floor near the damaged well head.
