
I'd be really interested to know if that's true, or just the normal oil you get on a road that hasn't been rained on for a while, from cars. Can it rain oil? Anyone able to confirm this?
( , Thu 24 Jun 2010, 10:34, Reply)

then it can certainly rain oil.
Or Aciiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiid ;)
( , Thu 24 Jun 2010, 10:36, Reply)

a one-off freak event like that is interesting but not important, whereas if it really is oil in normal weather then it;s well mental. Do we think that's not possible? So it's either just normal road oil or even if it's really from rain it's just a freak event?
( , Thu 24 Jun 2010, 10:45, Reply)

But the sheer amount of oil and water and hurricane season starting mean there will be probably more of this sort of thing.
Edit: The dispersant stuff is designed to break down the oil, which could make it much easier to evaporate.
( , Thu 24 Jun 2010, 10:53, Reply)

i want to know more about what's going to happen now. is hurricane season going to dump loads of toxic shit all over the southern US then? that would be really fucked up.
( , Thu 24 Jun 2010, 11:00, Reply)

It's like the lungs down on that coastline. The coastline is not a straight line but you could zoom in like a fractal and see so many crinkles. If oily water engulfs that it's like a smoker tarring up the lungs. In fact the oil could damage the wildlife/people's lungs in exactly that way too.
I'm not an expert though, just generalising.
( , Thu 24 Jun 2010, 11:06, Reply)

www.denverpost.com/news/ci_10431998
( , Thu 24 Jun 2010, 11:09, Reply)

Omega 3 oils, then shirly crude oils is easy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKWfNSFXzqw
( , Thu 24 Jun 2010, 10:44, Reply)