BP OIL SPILL!How Badly Will The Best Rated Florida Beaches Be Affected?UPDATEWell, thankfully, Southwest Florida dodged the bullet. The BP oil spill has left our pristine beaches untouched. The Gulf water is a spectacular shade of green and the beaches are white and beautiful. If you have been thinking about visiting, please do! ---------------------------------------------------------------- The Gulf oil spill is the most devastating natural disaster to impact the United States. Oil has already come ashore in the Panhandle of Florida. Pensacola and Destin are being hit. What will become of their beautiful wide sugar sand beaches? How many other best rated Florida beaches will be spoiled?Will Southwest Florida be affected? Well, some say that if the most recent fix doesn't work, no fix will be implemented until the two new pressure relieving wells are operational in August. Should that be the case the predictions are that oil from the BP oil spill will arrive on the Southwest Florida coast in September. This would be a tragedy of epic proportions. Should Charlotte Harbor be contaminated, the loss of marine life would be long lasting. Millions of folks would loose their livelihoods and the local economies would be devastated for years to come. Other experts say that the oil will hit the Loop Current and will be sucked straight down through the Gulf and through the Florida Straights at the Keys and then up the Atlantic coast of Florida and continuing to the Carolinas. We are all watching the TV in horror at the photos of the well pumping out thousands of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Those of us that love Florida and feel a real need to protect our pristine coastline need to do whatever we can to beg officials in both parties to do something other than just order studies. We've now all heard that the Dutch volunteered their ships that can suck up 20,000 tons of oil per day, but we refused them because of the Jones Law which says that foreign ships cannot perform operations in our waters. This law can be suspended for good reason and was during Hurricane Katrina. Our officials need to be encouraged to use some common sense before this situation causes decade long damage.
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