Tar balls still washing ashore in Waveland, Mississippi.

[pleah]

This was in the paper this morning, but I can't find it on the Sun Herald website, so I'm typing it word for word:
30-foot line of tar balls washes up in Waveland

The Hancock County Emergency Operations Center reported a 30-foot line of tar balls washed up at Hartsie Street in Waveland on Saturday. The tar balls ranged from 2 inches to 4 inches in diameter. Others were scattered near Silver Slipper Casino to the rock jetty to Coleman Avenue and from the Coleman Avenue Pier to the Washington Street pier. A steady stream of tar balls was seen in some locations. About 450 pounds of oily debris was collected.
Below the surface was a steady stream of tar balls in some locations. ---Sun Herald



Finally updated their website:
http://www.sunherald.com/2010/08/15/2406872/around-south-mississippi.html

[joeybee12]

1. Can't be...the oil is gone...

gotta be whale poop.


:sarcasm:

[pleah]

3. LOL yeah, whale poop.

But it is safe to swim in and eat the fish and seafood! :(

[ixion]

2. Expect tarballs and other pollution for the next several decades

Just ask the folks in Prince William Sound. They're still cleaning up the Exxon-Valdez mess.

[pleah]

4. exactly :(

[Botany]

5. Even if 75% of the oil is gone (cough) 50 million gallons are still there ...

.... it will be washing up for a long long time.

[fogonthelake]

6. It was never lost--just hiding for a while.

[babylonsister]

7. Haley Barbour: Oil? What Oil? and "tar balls are no big deal"

Haley Barbour: Oil? What Oil? Press Should Stop Scaring Tourists



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/06/haley-barbour-oil-what-oi_n_602088.html

snip and more...

"The truth is," he said, "we have had virtually no oil. If you were on the Mississippi Gulf coast anytime in the last 48 days you didn't see any oil at all. We have had a few tar balls but we have had tar balls every year, as a natural product of the Gulf of Mexico. 250,000 to 750,000 barrels of oil seep into the Gulf of Mexico through the floor every year. So, tar balls are no big deal. In fact, I read that Pensacola or the Florida beaches when they have tar balls yesterday didn't even close. They just sent people out to pick them up and throw them in the bag."

[pleah]

9. Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant is the dickhead that said he would eat a tar patty

because they were non-toxic. This is the same asshole that is running for Gov. of MS. :(

[blindpig]

8. It ain't over, won't be in our lifetimes.

Gonna take decades of research to document all of the effects, now if BP would only tell the government to let science do it's work...

[revolution breeze]

10. The tropical wave which passed last week is back

in the Gulf reforming and Waveland is on the "wet" side.