Did anyone else think it sounded strange when we heard news reports that the Coast Guard and BPs attempts to contain and burn the oil at the BP spill in the Gulf had to be stopped because of winds sounded strange? To me it did because it is five miles off the coast. My husband said maybe because of other rigs in the area. Oh, no. The truth is stranger than fiction. I tried Googling Associated Press and oil booms a zillion different ways (I always trusted the AP). Try it yourselve and see what you get. I got a dozen sites that look like a story and then it opens to URL not available...:

"As the Gulf Coast oil spill response team scrambled on Monday to get special fire booms to corral and then burn the slick, key questions surfaced: Were any of those booms even in the area? And if not, should they have been, given a 1994 plan produced for federal agencies to deal with such a scenario?

"The Coast Guard did not immediately respond to phone calls by msnbc.com about whether spill response plans required having fire booms nearby. The Press-Register of Mobile, Ala., reported Monday that no booms were available immediately after the Deepwater Horizon rig sank and started leaking oil on April 22."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36912754...s-environment/


From April 28, 2010 Navy Times : http://www.navytimes.com/news/2010/0..._spill_042810/

I heard the same wind and high seas prevented them. Is that the truth,I dont know. I hope it is.