Hurricane Season and the Oil Spill

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What happens if hurricanes hit the gulf coast with all that oil in the water? What if there's a Katrina-like hurricane and the slick is forced inland by storn surges? What then?

I know crude oil is poisonous and kills flora and fauna.... so what effect would this have on communities, on the marshlands, on wildlife, on seafood, on the landscape in general?

I know that it's relatively easy to scoop oil from the sand on a beach, but what if it's miles inland in marshes, and water supplies for communities? Spilt over the remains of yards and property? What then? Not to mention the fire hazards....

It looks like a toxic ecological disaster just waiting to happen.





Imagine this... but with oil.








Imagine oil all up in there. It would kill the grasses, and the land (what's left of it) would just erode away.





This whole area and more could be laced with oil.
 
Another enlightening post. Sarcasm proves that you are witty, because sarcasm is the highest form of wit.
 
In many ways a hurricane could help. The rough seas could break the oil up into far smaller particles enabling microbes to eat the oil, it could have a positive effect overall. But it could definitely push some oil inland as well with the storm surge.
It won't really go miles inland. If we had an epic storm surge it could in some areas. Most likely areas to see significant oil incursion would be marshlands that are low lieing. Everywhere else would see oil come inland a few hundred yards or less depending on how rapidly the ground rises from the GOM.

It would be a disaster in some areas but as I mentioned earlier in many ways it'll probably help. But you won't see the media focusing on how it could actually be good. The only station thats talked about this has been CNN.

edit: just saw the pics you posted, keep in mind the oil would make up such a SMALL portion of the moisture within a tropical cyclone that it would probably serve as an excellent way of diluting the oil.
 
You cant dilute the oil when you have no solvent.

All it is going to so is smash the very large slick up into thousands of very small slicks and push them around a bit.
 
No, it wouldn't, chimp.

If you want to use it losely, it dilutes the concentration of oil slicks....over an even bigger area. This isn't what we want. Braking one slick the size of NJ up into 1000 slicks the size of a medium city isn't a good thing.
 
Drrr hey moron, read the rest of the post instead of being a faggot like usual. You used PPM reference. You dont have PPM in a heterogeneous mixture. You have PPM in SOLUTION. We are not dealing with a solution.
 
the only reason I give you any credit at all in the intelligence department is from your demonstrated ability to manage to log onto the internet and post absolute stupidity on a regular basis

I'm continually amazed you haven't starved to death yet, or consumed drain cleaner
 
http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/natural-disasters/hurricane-profile/

That should help put it into perspective, a hurricane can easily rain 2.4 TRILLION gallons of water per day.

http://www.trivia-library.com/a/hurricane-agnes-hits-the-eastern-seaboard.htm

in four days Hurricane Agnes dumped 28.1 TRILLION gallons of water on the eastern seaboard.

This doesn't even account for the water vapor that doesn't get recorded as rain and the clouds that make up the storm.
 
So you went to WIKI and gathered information to show that I'm correct?

Lets say you have a glass of water. 1000ml of water and 1ml of olive oil. By volume you have 1000 PPM. I would calculate it by molarity but you're obviously being a wanna be hard ass so I wont bother.

If you shake it up for hours and then let it setle, you're still at 1000 PPM. Now lets sclae that up to the gulf. And dont say that the hurricaines will somehow make the oil leap over FL into the atlantic.
 
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