Guard watches coast for oil slick's first wave

[CRedskinsRule]

Originally Posted by SolidSnake84

Mattyk,

My sister in law lives in Gulf Shores, Alabama. There is a response team assembled there to deal with any oil (so far only tar balls have washed up, no slick or anything), and i can literally get up to the minute information by just having my wife text her and ask what is going on. She is no more than 2 or 3 blocks from where the scientist people are on the beach, etc....

With up to the minute info sometimes panic stuff comes out too. This MSNBC report, just updated, doesn't mention that they have given up, and I doubt they will, as options close, they will get more creative, but I doubt they will just stop for 2 months while they drill the relief well.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule

With up to the minute info sometimes panic stuff comes out too. This MSNBC report, just updated, doesn't mention that they have given up, and I doubt they will, as options close, they will get more creative, but I doubt they will just stop for 2 months while they drill the relief well.

I can't imagine the backlash if they just tossed up their hands and said see ya in August.

[12thMan]

This is like a really, really bad nightmare that just won't end. I hope BP goes out of business after all of this. They certainly deserve to.

[joethiesmanfan]

Originally Posted by 12thMan

This is like a really, really bad nightmare that just won't end. I hope BP goes out of business after all of this. They certainly deserve to.

The only thing left is prayer, let us pray.

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by joethiesmanfan

The only thing left is prayer, let us pray.

[Slingin Sammy 33]

Originally Posted by 12thMan

This is like a really, really bad nightmare that just won't end. I hope BP goes out of business after all of this. They certainly deserve to.

I agree with you, but let's hope it's after they've paid every last dime to clean the damage and compensate the victims.

Analysts: BP's $70B loss overdone - Jun. 1, 2010

Sure makes that $ 500K acoustic device look a lot more cost effective now.

[CRedskinsRule]

The ban was already lifted??

BreakingNews

Regulators approve permit sought by Bandon Oil and Gas for site off Louisiana coast, first new Gulf oil well since Obama lifted drill ban
3 minutes ago via breakingnews.com

[MTK]

Haven't heard that news come across a wire yet is all.

Just seems a little sudden to go from we're trying to free the saw or will drop another one, to we give up.

[firstdown]

You think they could get those huge sand bags and just start dumping them over the pipe until the have enough to hold back the oil. You know that mud stuff they tried had peices of tires and golf balls. I wonder if they used PRO V ONES or just cheap rang balls?

[over the mountain]

At my golf course the range balls are Pro V ones and I never slice.



(FD did you really have to leave the E off of range buddy, lol. im betting you had to go back and delete the E)

[firstdown]

I have played at some very nice golf courses and never seen Pro V's at the driving range.

[over the mountain]

well, i was joking but my pop used to be a member at RTJ in manassas for a long time and they have pro v1 range balls with range stamped in black on them. i dont play alot anymore but im sure i have a bunch left in my bag.

tpc avenel used to have them. i know they had them on the range after the kemper/booz allen/whatever it is now. i was hitting balls over there last month and they werent pro vs, i think they were calloways?

but for sure, 100%, rtj at manassas uses pro v1s for their range. ive probably hit a million of them over teh past 20 years.

edit - i went down to my car, they say "practice" on them not range. i got pro v1s and nxt tours.

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by over the mountain

well, i was joking but my pop used to be a member at RTJ in manassas for a long time and they have pro v1 range balls with range stamped in black on them. i dont play alot anymore but im sure i have a bunch left in my bag.

tpc avenel used to have them. i know they had them on the range after the kemper/booz allen/whatever it is now. i was hitting balls over there last month and they werent pro vs, i think they were calloways?

but for sure, 100%, rtj at manassas uses pro v1s for their range. ive probably hit a million of them over teh past 20 years.

edit - i went down to my car, they say "practice" on them not range. i got pro v1s and nxt tours.

When I went to the Bell South Clasic a few years back someone told me that the players would request what balls they wanted on the rang for their warm up. So if Phill hit Calloways he would have them waiting for him on the practice range. Not sure if thats true but it would make alot of sense.

[CRedskinsRule]

They are still working at it:

NBC, msnbc.com and news services
updated 1 minute ago

PORT FOURCHON, La. - As the crude crept closer to Florida, the effort to contain the nation's worst oil spill hit a snag Wednesday when a diamond-edged saw became stuck in a thick pipe on a blown-out well at the bottom of the Gulf.

It took hours, but robots freed the saw late in the day and the operation to cut through the pipe resumed, a source familiar with the operation told Reuters.

[firstdown]

Has anyone thought of purchasing any BP stock?