Thanks so much BP

Currently Listening to: "It's Gone" - Spiral

So, I know that everyone who hears even the smallest amount of news, knows about the Gulf Shores oil spill, brought to us by BP.



If you haven’t heard about it, allow me to summarize.


BP was too cheap to have the proper equipment installed when it built it’s pump in the gulf of Mexico so many years ago. Well, on April 20th, the oil rig malfunctioned and collapsed, killing a bunch of workers, and spilling a shit load of oil into the gulf. Normally, the company, with the proper equipment, could cap off the rig to prevent it from causing any more damage, but because BP was too cheap to have said equipment installed, today the rig still pumps oil into the ocean and creates a never ending mess.


Thank you BP, for ruining my home beach. Thanks so much for killing Gulf Shores.



I know this doesn’t matter to people who don’t live around Gulf Shores, and that many people are tired of hearing about it, but it matters to me.



I live in Mobile, Alabama, and though I have a bad case of hydrophobia, I still love going to the beach and playing in the sand and the surf. The last time I went to the beach though, back in September 2009, I actually swallowed my stomach and waded in the water with my Mom, because she loves the water so much. She could be a selkie if they existed. My mom held my hand, and walked out into the water with me, and we road the waves together. Once I stopped hyperventilating, and got used to random movements of the ocean, I realized that I wouldn’t sink and drown. It was so much fun. I didn’t want to leave the water, and received a second degree sunburn because of it, and every burning, pain filled second of it was worth that trip to the beach.



Now, because of BP’s fuck up, I’ll never get to do that again. I’m actually grad that I built up the nerve and walked into the waves now.




Now the water is full of chemicals that are killing the wildlife, and making it impossible to get in the water, and that damn pump is still drilling and spitting oil into the water. Tar balls line the shores, and sludge blackens the once white sand. There are clean up crews that are doing their best to restore the beach to its former glory, but every day with each wave, more shite washes to shore and stains their efforts like ink.

Gulf Shores will never be the same. Everyone knows it, but no one wants to admit it to themselves.

I think I'll stop talking on this subject, because it's draining my anger, and leaving me sad.

If you want to learn more about the oil spill, I suggest googling it, because there is no one site that completely nails it down, it's all over the web.