Better MS Report

From The Mobile Press-Register: White-and-red signs along the Alabama coast warn tourists that swimming is not advised due to the presence of oil-related chemicals. But children and adults are still playing in the surf. And people are still walking along the shoreline, wearing shoes spotted with clumps of reddish-brown oil. The Alabama Gulf Coast Convention [...]

From The Associated Press: Driftwood and seashells glazed with rust-colored tar lined the surf along the Gulf Coast’s once-pristine white sand beaches in Pensacola on Saturday, the crude from a busted oil well deep underwater showing up in greater quantities and farther east. A cap placed over the gusher was collecting some of the oil, [...]

Haunting video highlights seriousness of oil spill disaster By Terry R. Cassreino GULFPORT, Miss. (Sunday, May 23, 2010) – A steady, late afternoon breeze from the south cooled the beach across from the Courtyard Inn near downtown – and with it came the unmistakable, strong odor of oil. This was not the odor of gasoline [...]