Has the Oil spill hit Florida yet? Fl Folks please help

I hope that this is a once in a life time opportunity. I am wanting to get some shots of the oil spill. If you have been keeping up with it or if you are a Fl resident please let me know where I can go to get some shots. I live in middle Ga and I am about 6 hours from Pensacola Fl. I would like to keep my trip as short as possible. Any help is appreciated

I have a friend that lives in Lake Worth, FL and she says the oil made landfall there over a week ago.

I know that Pensacola has been getting small tar balls for the past few days but the last I heard the actual body of the spill was some miles off. A lot can vary with the wind, though.

Down here in Key West we have no oil yet, but we are ready down here with a ICS setup.

I don't think you're going to see much in Florida; try Louisiana instead.

OregonRebel wrote in post #10364147
I don't think you're going to see much in Florida; try Louisiana instead.

you're joking right? the keys are going to be completely devastated by this, along with the rest of the west coast of florida, and probably the whole eastern coast of the us

S2K.OGRAPHY wrote in post #10364472
you're joking right? the keys are going to be completely devastated by this, along with the rest of the west coast of florida, and probably the whole eastern coast of the us

Hasn't happened yet and may never, especially if they get that gusher under control soon. Louisiana, on the other hand, has a real problem right now.

OregonRebel wrote in post #10370745
Hasn't happened yet and may never, especially if they get that gusher under control soon. Louisiana, on the other hand, has a real problem right now.

that gusher wont be under control until august and the relief wells arent even a sure thing. you sound like one of the sheep that will believe what obama said about how they are collecting 90% of the leak

S2K.OGRAPHY wrote in post #10371025
that gusher wont be under control until august and the relief wells arent even a sure thing. you sound like one of the sheep that will believe what obama said about how they are collecting 90% of the leak

No, I'm a longtime Florida resident (I first moved there in '74, although I'm not there now) who has some familiarity with the currents and prevailing winds there. All of this panic about things that may never happen is not helping Florida in the least. My buddy in Suwannee (one of many places I've lived there) has already lost almost all of his bookings (he rents houseboats there) and not a drop of oil has hit that area. Anyhow, going back to the OP's question, he is much more likely to see oil-soaked beaches in Louisiana than in Florida.

Speaking of the spill, I agree that the relief wells are not a sure thing, especially during August. The best suggestion I've heard was to drill another, shallower well near the gusher and detonate a bomb in it, collapsing the other well. This approach has been done several times in Russia successfully. Much easier than intersecting the first well with a new one, but of course they won't get any oil that way...

OregonRebel wrote in post #10371085
No, I'm a longtime Florida resident (I first moved there in '74, although I'm not there now) who has some familiarity with the currents and prevailing winds there. All of this panic about things that may never happen is not helping Florida in the least. My buddy in Suwannee (one of many places I've lived there) has already lost almost all of his bookings (he rents houseboats there) and not a drop of oil has hit that area. Anyhow, going back to the OP's question, he is much more likely to see oil-soaked beaches in Louisiana than in Florida.

Speaking of the spill, I agree that the relief wells are not a sure thing, especially during August. The best suggestion I've heard was to drill another, shallower well near the gusher and detonate a bomb in it, collapsing the other well. This approach has been done several times in Russia successfully. Much easier than intersecting the first well with a new one, but of course they won't get any oil that way...

Doing so would probably not work all that well given the make-up of the ocean floor in the gulf ( I looked it up because I was thinking along similar lines). Instead of being densely packed sand/earth/rock its actually more like a crystal made of salt, full of thousands and thousands of layers and channels. Blowing up and blocking of the pipe at one point would likely cause the pipe to burst in another and then the oil would leak up through the floor of the ocean in a much, much wider area - whether or not this would be better than 1 single source is debatable but the general consensus is that it would be worse. (and of course BP wouldn't be able to get their oil)

Here's a link to a good site for keeping up with the oil, up to the minute reports of what oil is washing up and where along the gulf coast it's washing up.

http://map.floridadisa​ster.org/gator/

The news from yesterday was that they had gotten a secondary container setup for "sucking up" the stuff that is gushing and that theoretically it could result in getting most of the gushing sucked up. Whether it will be successful is of course yet to be seen, but the attempt is being made.

Also, they are going for a secondary "relief" drill, so that if the first one doesn't make the right connection, hopefully the second one will. Whichever of these hits will be the mechanism for actually (again theoretically) putting a stop to the leak once and for all.

In the meantime, the oil that has made it to the surface is still quite a ways off the Florida coast due to the prevailing winds and currents and such. It looks like the mass of it is heading more southward (watch out, Cuba). But if the winds change, not just Florida but the other states will get clobbered worse than they have already.

No oil here....and I hope it stays that way!

that obama hope stuff isnt going to work this time