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AMESBURY —" As an estimated 10 million gallons of crude oil makes its way to the Gulf Coast of the United States, threatening untold disaster to wildlife and the area's fishing industry, a familiar sense of doom has come over {I removed the womam name}. , who lives on
It was only five years ago that Hurricane Katrina tore through New Orleans and decimated the theater where --- performed and the dueling piano bar on Bourbon Street where her husband, Jonno, played five nights a week.
Now from her transplanted home in Amesbury, where she and her husband set down new roots, ---has become fixated on the 1 million gallons of oil gushing into the Gulf following an oil rig explosion 120 miles offshore on April 20.
And just as she and her neighbors became numb with fear in the final days before Katrina hit land, she's disturbed to see that familiar look of shock and defeat as Gulf residents face this new ecological threat.
"This may be even worse," ----- said. "I hate saying that because of how many people died in Katrina. But when you have a hurricane — I can't count how many I've been through — it destroys things, but then it's done, and it goes away, and you begin the process of rebuilding. With an oil slick, it sits there, and it continues to be a problem."
-----loves Amesbury, but said she makes frequent trips back to the pristine white sand beaches of the Gulf Coast, where she reconnects with her family and friends still living near her former home in New Orleans, and her native Pensacola, Fla., 200 miles to the east. She revels in all the Gulf states have to offer — crawfish, white herons, sailing trips around Pensacola Bay and Joe Patti's Seafood Co. on South B Street for fresh Gulf shrimp.
But for the second time in five years, ---- is imagining losing those things she and her family hold dear. For the mother of four who dreams of finding her way back to Pensacola, she's pining for the places of her youth that may soon be covered in a toxic and deadly layer of oil. The spill is currently about 90 miles off the coast of Pensacola.
"There is an opportunity for it to really inundate and saturate the area," she said. "The beach is just a barrier island. There are all kinds of ways for the oil to go around it."
Once it rounds the island and covers the beaches, ---- said it's a short trip to Pensacola Bay on the opposite side of the island, where the shipping, sailing and shrimping boats are docked.
"The oil is going to go right down that mouth, and it's going to hit Pensacola Bay — I don't really see how they can stop that," she said. "Once it does that, it will go into the tributaries like Bayou Chico and Bayou Taxar — there's a lot of settlement on that, so lots of houses, lots of pleasure boating, and there are wetland areas where the egrets and herons nest and congregate."
The thought of Pensacola's pristine, unique bayou habitats being covered in oil and what the resulting decline in air quality will do to the ecosystem, is something that keeps --- up at night. And when it comes to placing blame, Deily-Swearingen said she can't fathom there weren't safeguards in place to keep something like this from happening.
{"I don't understand why in all other countries I can think of, it's a requirement that you have an automatic shut off feed on the wells," she said. "And there wasn't one on this one. Why wasn't there an automatic shut }off? I can't fathom that."} ~~~~~
As BP, the owner of the rig, constructs a dome cap to keep oil from escaping, she marvels that it is taking so long.
"In terms of the response, there's a lot I don't know, but I don't understand why they're saying it will take six to eight weeks to get the bell cap even to be brought to where it needs to go," she said.
---is planning to head down to Pensacola and Louisiana in the next two weeks to see where she can lend a hand or at least assess the damage, and she will plan a longer stay for this summer. With her mother and cousins all living in the Pensacola area and good friends still living in New Orleans, she's sure there will be need, and she can't stand to be away. The oil spill has brought back feelings of helplessness that she thought the family had moved on from.
"It's very traumatic," she said of the family's experience five years ago, which had them stranded on a highway in Mobile Bay en route to her mother's house in Pensacola as the outer bands of Katrina threatened to wash the road out from under them.
"Those roads were literally washing out from underneath us as we were riding through," she said.
Once settled in Amesbury, __ said her daughter kept asking for a special platform bed for her new bedroom.
"She said Mommy, so in case it floods, we'll have someplace to go," Deily-Swearingen said.
Now her children are asking questions --- can't answer, like "Will we ever get to visit Grandma's house again?"
Like the fishermen and residents being interviewed by national media outlets as they wait for the oil slick to come ashore, she feels there's no way to fathom how bad this is going to be. Like Katrina, there's just no precedent to draw from.
"It's hard to imagine the unimaginable, which is a lot of what happened with Katrina," ---- said. "It's really too big to be grasped.""
I got this from a Daily News paper. I am do damn angry that an automatic shut was NOT put on this oil rig! It was said to be the safest oil rig build , what a Load of Shit! I ran into a guy in the car shop who was a veteran and he told we he worked on a oil rig for 6 months and it was really bad the way things was done! I wish I could had talk to the guy longer but his car was done and let. I would love to have gotten more details from the guy!
It was only five years ago that Hurricane Katrina tore through New Orleans and decimated the theater where --- performed and the dueling piano bar on Bourbon Street where her husband, Jonno, played five nights a week.
Now from her transplanted home in Amesbury, where she and her husband set down new roots, ---has become fixated on the 1 million gallons of oil gushing into the Gulf following an oil rig explosion 120 miles offshore on April 20.
And just as she and her neighbors became numb with fear in the final days before Katrina hit land, she's disturbed to see that familiar look of shock and defeat as Gulf residents face this new ecological threat.
"This may be even worse," ----- said. "I hate saying that because of how many people died in Katrina. But when you have a hurricane — I can't count how many I've been through — it destroys things, but then it's done, and it goes away, and you begin the process of rebuilding. With an oil slick, it sits there, and it continues to be a problem."
-----loves Amesbury, but said she makes frequent trips back to the pristine white sand beaches of the Gulf Coast, where she reconnects with her family and friends still living near her former home in New Orleans, and her native Pensacola, Fla., 200 miles to the east. She revels in all the Gulf states have to offer — crawfish, white herons, sailing trips around Pensacola Bay and Joe Patti's Seafood Co. on South B Street for fresh Gulf shrimp.
But for the second time in five years, ---- is imagining losing those things she and her family hold dear. For the mother of four who dreams of finding her way back to Pensacola, she's pining for the places of her youth that may soon be covered in a toxic and deadly layer of oil. The spill is currently about 90 miles off the coast of Pensacola.
"There is an opportunity for it to really inundate and saturate the area," she said. "The beach is just a barrier island. There are all kinds of ways for the oil to go around it."
Once it rounds the island and covers the beaches, ---- said it's a short trip to Pensacola Bay on the opposite side of the island, where the shipping, sailing and shrimping boats are docked.
"The oil is going to go right down that mouth, and it's going to hit Pensacola Bay — I don't really see how they can stop that," she said. "Once it does that, it will go into the tributaries like Bayou Chico and Bayou Taxar — there's a lot of settlement on that, so lots of houses, lots of pleasure boating, and there are wetland areas where the egrets and herons nest and congregate."
The thought of Pensacola's pristine, unique bayou habitats being covered in oil and what the resulting decline in air quality will do to the ecosystem, is something that keeps --- up at night. And when it comes to placing blame, Deily-Swearingen said she can't fathom there weren't safeguards in place to keep something like this from happening.
{"I don't understand why in all other countries I can think of, it's a requirement that you have an automatic shut off feed on the wells," she said. "And there wasn't one on this one. Why wasn't there an automatic shut }off? I can't fathom that."} ~~~~~
As BP, the owner of the rig, constructs a dome cap to keep oil from escaping, she marvels that it is taking so long.
"In terms of the response, there's a lot I don't know, but I don't understand why they're saying it will take six to eight weeks to get the bell cap even to be brought to where it needs to go," she said.
---is planning to head down to Pensacola and Louisiana in the next two weeks to see where she can lend a hand or at least assess the damage, and she will plan a longer stay for this summer. With her mother and cousins all living in the Pensacola area and good friends still living in New Orleans, she's sure there will be need, and she can't stand to be away. The oil spill has brought back feelings of helplessness that she thought the family had moved on from.
"It's very traumatic," she said of the family's experience five years ago, which had them stranded on a highway in Mobile Bay en route to her mother's house in Pensacola as the outer bands of Katrina threatened to wash the road out from under them.
"Those roads were literally washing out from underneath us as we were riding through," she said.
Once settled in Amesbury, __ said her daughter kept asking for a special platform bed for her new bedroom.
"She said Mommy, so in case it floods, we'll have someplace to go," Deily-Swearingen said.
Now her children are asking questions --- can't answer, like "Will we ever get to visit Grandma's house again?"
Like the fishermen and residents being interviewed by national media outlets as they wait for the oil slick to come ashore, she feels there's no way to fathom how bad this is going to be. Like Katrina, there's just no precedent to draw from.
"It's hard to imagine the unimaginable, which is a lot of what happened with Katrina," ---- said. "It's really too big to be grasped.""
I got this from a Daily News paper. I am do damn angry that an automatic shut was NOT put on this oil rig! It was said to be the safest oil rig build , what a Load of Shit! I ran into a guy in the car shop who was a veteran and he told we he worked on a oil rig for 6 months and it was really bad the way things was done! I wish I could had talk to the guy longer but his car was done and let. I would love to have gotten more details from the guy!
