Is there any oil on the beaches in Biloxi and Gulfport? I would think the barrier islands might stopped a lot of it. If it did stop most of the oil, I would market this to Louisiana and Alabama residents
Question for MS Coast residents about the oil
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Is there any oil on the beaches in Biloxi and Gulfport? I would think the barrier islands might stopped a lot of it. If it did stop most of the oil, I would market this to Louisiana and Alabama residents
Some washed up on Petit Bois Island. The east end of Horn Island is closed. It will probably be here soon, especially with hurricane season starting. One storm will push that **** on shore and it will be a disaster. And with water temperatures so high, it was 90.5 degrees this weekend, it won't be long before a storm comes along.
...I lived on the coast in the late 1980's, and I remember watching all the Louisiana folks coming over to Biloxi/Gulfport because at least we had white sand.
That's like a kid playing hoopsin Bovina ona dirt court with a hoop made out ofbasket, going toplay on the courts on theMission 66 with double re-enforced rims with a chain for anet.... It still is not good....Mutt the Hoople said:
avoid any possible issues. Does the Grand in Gulfport have the lazy river still? I think I floated in that about 36 straight hours once.
it's the <span style="text-decoration:line-through">silt</span> **** in the water that keep <span style="text-decoration:line-through">snobs</span> intelligent people like you away
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there are zero waves, and half the time there is a highway about twenty feet away. They are better than no beach, but they still kind of suck
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They have booms up along the bridge over Bay St Louis, but there doesn't appear to be any oil. There wasn't any oil on the beaches around Pass Christian either. The locals say that you can smell it, but the wind was blowing in when I was there and I still couldn't smell anything.
They have booms up along the bridge over Bay St Louis, but there doesn't appear to be any oil. There wasn't any oil on the beaches around Pass Christian either. The locals say that you can smell it, but the wind was blowing in when I was there and I still couldn't smell anything.
I've smelled it 2 or 3 times from my house in Gautier (north of I-10) and smell it about every 3 days from my office in Biloxi (just a block up from the beach). I also have a project ongoing at the Pass (on the beach) and I can smell it there about every other day. It smells like an oil sumpin an old service station.Johnson85 said:
There are days with strong south winds when I dont smell it though.
As to the beaches, yes our beaches suck compared to Destin, but Horn Island beaches >>Destin any day in my opinion.
As to the beaches, yes our beaches suck compared to Destin, but Horn Island beaches >>Destin any day in my opinion.
It seems to be stronger in the early morning. Maybe that has something to do with me, instead of the Oil...
It does not matter if our beaches suck. They are the only beaches our state has and people's way of life depends on them. People on the Mississippi coast don't really make any money off how beautiful our beaches are. Its mostly casinos, commercial fisherman, charters, and dining. <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span>Even if our beaches do suck, it is still vastly important that we make it known to the rest of the country that there is not oil on our beaches.
I mean, the beaches in Oxford are way better but the beaches on the MS coast are ok........ Dick
Johnson85 said:
I can smell it, not daily, but when the wind and weather is right the smell is unmistakable and it's definitely not my imagination nor is it my neighbor's lawnmower stinking up the joint. I'm on the west side of the coast...one day early on in the spill we walked out of our workplace and the smell about knocked us down. Since then it has varied from nothing to weak hints to quite strong.
IF you're thinking about it, at least from my experience. It's been overpowering only a couple of days, and the others I have to be looking for it to notice exactly what it is. Booms are up in some places just off Gulfport Harbor and down south of Pass Christian. They're really close in though. Barrier islands and the marshes of LA which are directly south of the coast are helping us a lot.tenureplan said:
I was at Ship Island Sunday, and there was no smell of oil. I go out nearly every weekend and haven't smelled any oil.