Walk on the Beach = Tar Patties

HKr1 · June 16th, 2010, 07:19 PM

We only only live a few blocks from the beach, asked the wife if she felt like taking a walk down there to see whats going on. At first everything was looking OK....... until you look a little closer.
All the brown things in the pictures, are little tar patties. They get all over your feet/shoes/boots, brakleen takes it off the best. < So dont pick any up, pretty hard to get off your fingers

They say the slick is just off the coast, maybe those ships in the one picture have Kevin Costners machine on board

GeneJunkie · June 16th, 2010, 07:44 PM

Gawd that is awful. I love the beaches at Pensacola too, its such a shame this has happened

HKr1 · June 16th, 2010, 07:58 PM

Yeah, is pretty sad. Now if you want a nice romantic walk on the beach, you have to remember to do it in your rubber boots.

bob706 · June 16th, 2010, 08:09 PM

Cant wait till it gets to our beaches! Maybe the prez will come here and close pretty much the main east-west route down for a day!!

ScraitT · June 16th, 2010, 08:27 PM

It's only a matter of time till it makes it to our side of the state. I've heard they they have found a few small tar balls randomly in Miami, but I don't know if it's true. Regardless, it'll be here all too soon.

HKr1 · June 17th, 2010, 05:10 AM

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Originally Posted by bob706

Cant wait till it gets to our beaches!

Can you guys get to the beach in Mary Esther? Other than the sound(that looks like property/home owners), I think Eglin AFB owns the real beach/strand past there.......

FrugalNinja250 · June 17th, 2010, 05:44 AM

Curious, is there anything you can do with those? Do they burn? Spread a layer out in the drive and cover with gravel to make your own asphalt coating?

mrlmd · June 17th, 2010, 07:23 AM

My GF and I went to a BP sponsored training program for coastal cleanup (the spill is still 150+ miles away from here) and I asked the instructor about what they do with that "weathered" oil and tar balls that are picked up, ie. , do they burn them as fuel for energy or anything. He told me they don't even burn, you have to heat them up to 1500 degrees before it will burn. And, off the cuff he said, "you could take it home to patch your driveway, but don't tell anybody I told you so."

austexjg · June 17th, 2010, 08:12 AM

How sad...

HKr1 · June 17th, 2010, 09:38 AM

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Originally Posted by mrlmd

And, off the cuff he said, "you could take it home to patch your driveway, but don't tell anybody I told you so."

So that means there going to dry up and get hard?? I'll grab some up next time.... if theres is a next time. Sucked having to clean that crap off feet/boots. Atleast dog crap comes off with the hose

Last month there were some days we had the smell of the burning oil. OMG what a horrible smell.

Bob, you see this pic of Okaloosa island

backinthesaddleagain · June 17th, 2010, 10:25 AM

Tragedy for sure.

bob706 · June 17th, 2010, 10:35 AM

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Originally Posted by HKr1

Can you guys get to the beach in Mary Esther? Other than the sound(that looks like property/home owners), I think Eglin AFB owns the real beach/strand past there.......

Eglin does own the beach that would otherwise be in Mary Esther.

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Originally Posted by HKr1

Bob, you see this pic of Okaloosa island

Wait till that sh*t get to Sandestin/30A - the pretty people will lose the flippin minds. If it get into the sound then we're done

ScraitT · June 17th, 2010, 10:35 AM

From what I have read...if you're caught cleaning the beach up on your own, you'll be arrested. You have to be "trained" and hired by BP and be on an official cleanup crew to be cleaning the beaches. BP wants the oil, every last drop of it that they can get because it's money. Everything they collect gets cleaned and refined and gets sold.

Again, I am going on reading, so who knows how accurate the source is, but I have even seen on the news where people were being arrested for trying to clean up the beach.

Kitdog · June 17th, 2010, 12:24 PM

It is horrible tragedy but looking to the silver lining, at least it is pure unrefined oil, which makes clean up much easier, the Valdez in Alaska was refined and that makes in much worse it would be like pouring old motor oil on the beach. Still sucks though

HKr1 · June 17th, 2010, 01:07 PM

There saying you will get arested trying to clean the stuff up on your own. Noticed this post on a local forum, she also mentions the worthless BP clean up crew:

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SEND HELP NOW!
I am in Navarre FL. My life revolves around the ability to have guests at the beach. I am a condominium manager. In my spare time, I do beach weddings.
The tar balls and sheen are here. They rolled in yesterday evening. There are tar balls the size of my hand and bigger. There is more in the water. Our water is crystal clear today. You can see the tar balls on the floor of the gulf. They don't float on the top but kind of float along the bottom. They are also being found on Okaloosa Island this morning.
We have been told we can not clean up the mess ourselves. I say, "WHY NOT?" So this morning, I grabbed my kitty litter scooper and a plastic bag. I got out on the beach about 8am. The contractors for BP came out and got moving about 8:30. There were 11 people. They seemed to be taking shifts working. It was hot and this is understandable. Lord knows, I was sweating. I had the advantage of wearing a swim suit and could get wet to cool off. This group of BP workers were on the water line today (a first compared to the past few weeks). They left at 10am. In that time, they cleaned a 20 ft area. After they left, we (I recruited help) went to where they were working. They had used a rake and raked the tar balls back into the sand. Also their footprints were smashing tar balls into the sand. We cleaned that up too. In those 2 hours that I had been out there, we covered a 200 ft area, twice. Of course they are going to keep coming, but at least we did our part. If everyone out there who is complaining came out with a trash bag and kitty litter scoop, we could work on staying ahead of it.
Last night, the President said he would deploy the National Guard. I say, " Get after it!" I would welcome the National Guard with arms open. That is a wonderful idea. Because these contractors are not working out. As disappointed (using the term loosely) as I am with BP, I feel they should know that the contractors they have hired are screwing them out of their money. They are gonna need every dime to fix this mess. There is no need to keep this useless contractor on the payroll.
Someone told me I could be arrested for picking up tar balls. I request, anyone seeing me get arrested for cleaning the beach, take video and call an attorney that wants face time on tv to come and bail me out.

HKr1 · June 17th, 2010, 04:29 PM

Iam pretty old, but I dont remember this happening before:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-4oooyqe_8

Link to original page on YouTube.

ScorpionNinja · June 17th, 2010, 06:07 PM

Imagine if the current leaking oil well, was.. THE LAST OIL IN THE WORLD

Watch how fast the worlds best scientist and engineers create new "clean" means of fuel and all that good stuff!

The end of Oil companies! :clap:

GeorgiaHooligan · June 17th, 2010, 06:30 PM

You know the exxon valdiz oil spill whipped out 40% of the killer whale population in the region of the spill, and they have yet to be restored. When nations turn their back on god and make money their god, blessings begin to deminish. It has just begun!

bob706 · June 17th, 2010, 06:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HKr1

Iam pretty old, but I dont remember this happening before:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-4oooyqe_8

Link to original page on YouTube.

That one was probably Bush's fault too. That ************!

GeneJunkie · June 17th, 2010, 07:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HKr1

Iam pretty old, but I dont remember this happening before:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-4oooyqe_8

Link to original page on YouTube.

I believe that is the oil spill my dad always talks about, I could easily be wrong, I know that it was pre-1985. He used to work for Sonat Offshore drilling when we lived in Houston, Texas. He told me that there was a huge spill in the gulf of Mexico that was due to a company drilling wells but never kept track of where exactly they were drilling. A huge accident occurred and it started spilling oil into the Gulf. Sonat eventually was the company that found the specific site where the oil was spilling and capped it.

BTW, the company that was the cause of the 1979 oil spill, Sedco, is part of Transocean who is the company owned Deep Water Horizon offshore drilling rig. It also figures that Sonat was also sold to Transocean in 1996.

HKr1 · June 18th, 2010, 11:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bob706

That one was probably Bush's fault too. That ************!

The old one, or the older one

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Originally Posted by GeneJunkie

I believe that is the oil spill my dad always talks about, I could easily be wrong, I know that it was pre-1985. He used to work for Sonat Offshore drilling when we lived in Houston, Texas..

I kinda thought and off shore job would have been pretty cool. We worked for these guys: http://www.bjservices.com/website/in...S?openframeset for a little bit....... right before going into the Navy

June 16th, 2010, 08:27 PM	#5
ScraitT Green! Name: Tyler Location: S. Florida Join Date: Nov 2008 Motorcycle(s): 08 Ninja 250R, 04 Honda CRF230F, 94 Honda XR80R Posts: 505	It's only a matter of time till it makes it to our side of the state. I've heard they they have found a few small tar balls randomly in Miami, but I don't know if it's true. Regardless, it'll be here all too soon. __________________________________________________ 2008 Green 250R

June 17th, 2010, 10:35 AM	#13
ScraitT Green! Name: Tyler Location: S. Florida Join Date: Nov 2008 Motorcycle(s): 08 Ninja 250R, 04 Honda CRF230F, 94 Honda XR80R Posts: 505	From what I have read...if you're caught cleaning the beach up on your own, you'll be arrested. You have to be "trained" and hired by BP and be on an official cleanup crew to be cleaning the beaches. BP wants the oil, every last drop of it that they can get because it's money. Everything they collect gets cleaned and refined and gets sold. Again, I am going on reading, so who knows how accurate the source is, but I have even seen on the news where people were being arrested for trying to clean up the beach. __________________________________________________ 2008 Green 250R

June 17th, 2010, 12:24 PM	#14
Kitdog ninjette.org guru Name: Kit Location: New Mexico Join Date: May 2010 Motorcycle(s): 2009 Ninja 250r, 1996 Yahmaha YZ 125... Both in Blue the coolest color Posts: 285	It is horrible tragedy but looking to the silver lining, at least it is pure unrefined oil, which makes clean up much easier, the Valdez in Alaska was refined and that makes in much worse it would be like pouring old motor oil on the beach. Still sucks though __________________________________________________ "Well you know, for me, the action IS the juice"

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June 16th, 2010, 07:44 PM	#2
GeneJunkie ninjette.org sage Name: Cindy Location: Wethersfield, CT Join Date: Apr 2010 Motorcycle(s): 2010 Ninja 250R Posts: 691	Gawd that is awful. I love the beaches at Pensacola too, its such a shame this has happened

June 16th, 2010, 07:58 PM	#3
HKr1 IC2(SW) Name: Kerry Location: Pensacola Join Date: Nov 2008 Motorcycle(s): . Posts: A lot.	Yeah, is pretty sad. Now if you want a nice romantic walk on the beach, you have to remember to do it in your rubber boots.

June 16th, 2010, 08:09 PM	#4
bob706 ninjette.org certified postwhore Name: Sean Location: Mary Esther, FL Join Date: Jan 2009 Motorcycle(s): 2008 Ninja 250 1998 HD Road King Posts: A lot.	Cant wait till it gets to our beaches! Maybe the prez will come here and close pretty much the main east-west route down for a day!!

June 17th, 2010, 05:44 AM	#7
FrugalNinja250 ninjette.org certified postwhore Name: Frugal Location: Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) Join Date: Mar 2010 Motorcycle(s): Several Posts: A lot.	Curious, is there anything you can do with those? Do they burn? Spread a layer out in the drive and cover with gravel to make your own asphalt coating?

June 17th, 2010, 07:23 AM	#8
mrlmd ninjette.org sage Name: Marc Location: Crawfordville, Florida Join Date: Jan 2010 Motorcycle(s): 2005 Suzuki S50, 2006 Kawasaki Ninja EX250F, 1990 Honda PC800, 2000 Yamaha TW200 Posts: 848	My GF and I went to a BP sponsored training program for coastal cleanup (the spill is still 150+ miles away from here) and I asked the instructor about what they do with that "weathered" oil and tar balls that are picked up, ie. , do they burn them as fuel for energy or anything. He told me they don't even burn, you have to heat them up to 1500 degrees before it will burn. And, off the cuff he said, "you could take it home to patch your driveway, but don't tell anybody I told you so."

June 17th, 2010, 08:12 AM	#9
austexjg ninjette.org sage Name: J.G. Location: Austin Join Date: Oct 2009 Motorcycle(s): '09 zx6r Green/Black, (ex-)Diablo Black '09 Ninja 250r Posts: 959	How sad...

June 17th, 2010, 10:25 AM	#11
backinthesaddleagain ninjette.org certified postwhore Name: Greg Location: Rhode Island Join Date: Apr 2009 Motorcycle(s): 2013 ZX6R 636 Posts: A lot.	Tragedy for sure.

June 17th, 2010, 04:29 PM	#16
HKr1 IC2(SW) Name: Kerry Location: Pensacola Join Date: Nov 2008 Motorcycle(s): . Posts: A lot.	Iam pretty old, but I dont remember this happening before: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-4oooyqe_8 Link to original page on YouTube.

June 17th, 2010, 06:07 PM	#17
ScorpionNinja ninjette.org certified postwhore Name: Dave Location: Michigan Join Date: May 2009 Motorcycle(s): 2009 Kawasaki Ninja 650RTE & 2009 Kawasaki Ninja 250R (SOLD) Posts: A lot.	Imagine if the current leaking oil well, was.. THE LAST OIL IN THE WORLD Watch how fast the worlds best scientist and engineers create new "clean" means of fuel and all that good stuff! The end of Oil companies! :clap:

June 17th, 2010, 06:30 PM	#18
GeorgiaHooligan ninjette.org guru Name: Aaron Location: Gone riding. Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 389	You know the exxon valdiz oil spill whipped out 40% of the killer whale population in the region of the spill, and they have yet to be restored. When nations turn their back on god and make money their god, blessings begin to deminish. It has just begun!