"Huge mats of tar found on Galveston beaches"

[webDude]

Source: Channel 2 News(NBC affiliate in Houston, Texas)

"July 7, 2010 Huge mats of tar were found on some Galveston beaches over the fourth of July weekend. Ryan Korsgard reports"

Read more: http://www.click2houston.com/video/24177951/index.html

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Reporter informs state(Texas) about tar "mats"(some about 2 feet by 6 feet) on Galveston's west beach area. To be fair, a beach-goer brought it up to him. At one point you see a small field of tar on the beach. Saw this on the 10 PM news, July 7th, today. The reporter says that it was confirmed that it came from the BP spill, then when he goes out of edit, he says they are still waiting to find out. Says they think it was kicked up by Alex.

Was this on national news? This is more tar than we have seen on the MSM here, before, by far!

[ClassWarrior]

1. My heart goes out to you all. I have a close friend in Houston.

(I hear that Channel 2 has no humidity, btw...)

NGU.

[webDude]

2. No humidity? haha! Yes, no humidity if you sqeegee it off when you go outside.

[ClassWarrior]

3. That was an old Channel 2 promo that I found infinitely funny at the time...

NGU.

[Pirate Smile]

4. It sucks but the state I really feel for is Florida when they get any oil since they are the one

gulf state that made a point of rejecting drilling in favor of a focus on tourism.

I would, of course, prefer no state had to deal with this crap but I just put florida in a separate category. They never wanted to assume this risk in exchange for a financial reward re the $$$ in the oil industry but still have to deal with the consequences.

[webDude]

6. Agreed. Do not remember ANY tar on the beach till they started drilling...

...offshore in Galveston.

[defendandprotect]

5. Hard to even estimate where the WORST of all this will be . . .

still far in the futures of these Gulf states?

Or is it all going to lay at the bottom of the ocean creating a new dead zone?