Oil has hit barrier island off Terrebonne Parish

Fished there last week...This sucks!

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may have also reached Raccoon Island

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Son of a ***** it's on my back door

I don't think that they do and the wave action and currents at whiskey and wine island passes would probably render them useless anyway.

I have a bad feeling that they will have no choice but to close all saltwater fishing in Terrebonne up to the locks at Boudreaux canal, Madison Canal. They will also have to boom off the Houma Navigational Canal and Bayou Grand Caillou as there are no locks on those two. You could have oil in downtown Houma if it were to make its way up the Houma Nav

No Doubt about it if they do not boom the Nav Canal and Bayou Grand Calliou Downtown Houma will smell like an auto shop. I really do not know if the rest of the nation knows how much of an impact something like this can change a whole region. Hurricannes come and we come back/rebuild and go back to work, but with this 60-70 percent of people will not have any job to get back to if it is all dead or ruined!

Definitely. If they close off the Houma Nav just think about how much business it will shut down with marine traffic being diverted to Morgan City and Port Fourchon.

What kind of work do you do Cigtyme? Your name reminded me it is time for my last smoke break

Work at a fabrication yard in houma

Yes and no. If it would only stay on the beach then yes but the barrier islands aren't very long and it is a straight shot to the salt water marshes from there with several passes miles wide between barrier islands. If it is hitting last island then it will be in the marshes in the next day or two.

I can't even begin to imagine how hard it would be to extract oil from the marshes. An air boat or marsh buggy would be needed and you would compound the impact just from having that machinery in those areas. The marsh is so broken out there the scope of the area affected would make clean up efforts almost futile.