Ghost of BiB

You reminded me of something I didn't think about. Dredge spoils are almost always high in heavy metals. They could probably reduce the degree to which they have to clean by comparing new soil tests against known backgrounds, which are probably high anyway. It's still going to be awfully expensive. I don't know how this works for a hurricane, but contamination is the responsibility, cradle to grave of the generator. If methyl-ethyl-death washes out of your tank farm and into downtown NO, it's YOUR problem. If you are a big company, you can spend years and millions fighting liability in court.

It's that new fangled self replicating "tool" technology we've been reading about.

You ever notice the legs and breasts? Oh, that's right...they either have to be whoopie or robotic for Picard to have a shot.

You're a young 'un. I'll forgive you. Or maybe it's a preference. Gulf is good for white shrimp. White shrimp (pink shrimp) don't have much taste or texture compared to open water shrimp (most of the time, brown shrimp). Brown are a lot more firm, and do much better steamed than the white. You can have some nice 12-15 count white, and not hardly be able to peel them because the shells are like tissue and the meat gets mushy easy.

We're talking at the time. Idiot.

Probably was a little too close to home for you, but he was successful.

Bubba Gump? That part of the movie was filmed in South Carolina, but according to the story, yes. A discerning viewer would have caught that they were Atlantic brown shrimp, not pink gulf shrimp...but movies are movies.

He's off looking up Rand. Piccard never had a body like that on the bridge.

What makes you think you should eat it now? Gulf shrimp suck.

Pump it wherever I can to get it out, so I can work, and worry about it later. Once the water is gone, the residual contamination becomes a soil contamination problem. Soil contamination problems are usually ignored until they become water contamination problems. In the eyes of the regulators, water is not always water. Unless someone becomes really anal, the flood waters are not going to get addressed. When they are gone, things will fall back into leachates. Anyone who wants to rebuild will be stuck with a phase one and two assessment, or they will be in violation of the environmental laws. Once the soil samples are taken, and they have leachable toxins above the TCLP values, they will have to remediate. then, it goes to the lawyers.

Hah! got 'em now.... That will get blown off in the short term, then someone will ask the question later after it gets pumped back into the gulf, then there will be no proof besides the residual heavy metals and semi-volatiles...then everyone on both sides will parade experts.... This stuff can really be a lot of fun.

I saw a squirrel today. He was in a tree.

. THEY PUNTED BAXTER!!!

I care what you say why?

No kidding.

And it turned into a typical democrat operation. We ignore it as much as we can.

Whew, I just got put in MY place.

Yeoman Janice Rand. With her hair down.

I was falling asleep to a gold show the other night. Why IS gold the standard? What is the value besides tradition?

I love running the AC on full with the widows rolled down. I miss my truck. Cold air in the face and a drink on the widowsill.

You're concerned and don't know his name?

Sittin' on the dock of the bay, watching the time, slip away.

You entirely missed the point of most of my posts. This is not one cause, that is why I posted the references. I'd be more than happy to explain the concepts and the nuances of the documents I referenced if anyone wants to ask pointed questions. Big picture, and long term goals. You can take my answers for whatever worth you give them. Not too many Americans appreciate or like what is going on, but it is a sound strategy. It's also suffering growing pains, not due to incompetence, but through a learning curve. Another poster pointed out that terrorism was being viewed criminally for a long time. Became a CSI episode for the FBI. Anything I could write about how it was misread by the Clinton administration would get turned into a partisan rant, with links. From both sides, and chances are they'd all be pointless and stupid. Anyhow, this is what we have. We're awfully behind in the power curve, but whether you or anyone else wants to believe it, we aren't doing bad. It's very hard in our society to look 20 years down the road. Americans want 20 minutes or less.

Whaling Wall.