re: Orange Beach is now Oil Beach as the oil is washing up everywhere

I Fn dare any liberal to tell me that more couldnt be done to get this crap while it out in the water.

Tell me again that our POTUS is doing everything possible.

The lack of effort to TRY to stop this crap before it hits the shores is down right UNPATRIOTIC, and IDIOTIC.

No bullshite Update:
badnews-goodnews
BAD- reports of increased tarballs are true. I did not have to look too hard to find them this afternoon. In fact, I stepped in a few...don't drink and go out to check on the status of tarballs. Sucks to step on one, F-ing sucks to stumble from tarball to tarball. Looks like they will be cleaned up by the AM.
The good news-there is still no smell. My wife says that my senses of smell and hearing make up for my bat-like vision(no comment). Anyway, smell is a deal breaker to me, but much better air quality than Sulphur(no offense intended). The positives outweigh the negatives. No waiting for elevators, you can leave your ice chest outside of your condo(without kids stealing your beer, I'm still looking for you little a-holes), and you can enjoy the pool and the first 200 ft of sand as if you own them. Just keep your kids off the shore. Young kids for the risk to health and the older ones for the damn mess.
Will send an update tommorrow if anything changes...

Update from Perdido-
Much pretty much the same as Cwilk...tarballs everywhere, on the beach and in the water. DOUBLE RED FLAGS since about noon. No one allowed in the water under threat of being ticketed. No ONE even looking like they want to clean up the beach. Did not stay down long enough to notice if there was a smell or not. No smell at the condo pool. Place is still a ghost town. I'm making the best of it, have to try to empty the ice chest before we leave tommorrow. Will post again if anything changes.

Leaving this am... The beach was a fricking mess last pm. From the waterline up about 30 feet into the packed sand, tarballs as far as you can see looking up and down the shoreline. Not just the small ones, many 1 foot in diameter and bigger. Not one worker cleaning up, only lifeguards patrolling to keep people out of the water. The double red flags are still up this am, and I imagine they will be up for some time. Still no smell, unless you get down to the waterline, where it weakly smells like fresh asphalt. On the upside, the pool may have had 15 folks in it yesterday and it hasn't rained all weekend. If you're still making it out here soon, I would plan on spending most of my time in the pool. I will post some pics when we get home...

ETA- forgot to add that there were stalks of broccoli scattered on the beach for some reason, may have seen 20 or so...

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got sick

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Seriously dude wtf? I can handle millions of gallons of oil but vomit makes me hurl.

Got to Orange Beach yesterday. Beach is beautiful. I haven't seen any oil, but they have double red flags and the water is closed to swimming. The beach is eerily deserted and the pool crowd is sparse.

pictures?