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On a serious note, I am a bit concerned for the Everglades ecosystem's future, what with the uncontrolled oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the Hurricane season upon us.

It could be ecologically devastating should the perfect storm occur and send a tide of crude oil to over wash the Everglades and surrounding areas. The possibility of the oil entering the aquifer is a real one and probably even more serious over a larger area and for a greater period of time.

In the event of such an occurrence, we won't have to worry about the Pythons any longer, or any other life, for that matter.

jsc
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"As hard as I've tried, just can't NOT do this"
John Crickmer

John those pythons wont die. They will just become supper adapted to oil pythons and take over all of the oil wells in the US. LOL
Well I was joking but it doesn't sound to much more from the truth than some of the other crap I have heard.
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Noah was the first snake collector. ~Eric~

Looks like there's a good chance the subsurface oil plume will migrate through the Keys and northward along the Atlantic coast.

With the right wind and waves, along with the dispersant they've been applying, it's liable to be a very toxic emulsion, much like well shaken oil and vinegar salad dressing, only deadly.

This very well may be the seachange event (no pun intended) required to initiate a complete overhaul our very broken and very corrupt Government. No doubt, that depends more or less on the economic extent of the damage.

jsc
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"As hard as I've tried, just can't NOT do this"
John Crickmer

John, unfortunately you are right about the damage this can cause. It most certainly already has done more damage than we know just yet. I would think even if it doesn't make it into the Everglades too far it will kill shore species of mollusk and other life forms by the thousands and thousands.

As for this being the thing that gets our corrupt government overhauled? Well we can hope and prey but I would not hold my breath. I lost total faith in them to do what is right for the people and for this planet a long time ago. The problem is they have worked out a system over time so they have total control and power to do whatever they want regardless, There are no checks and balances because they took the time to make the effort to remove them for themselves. So which of the crooks will fix what the crooks have done?
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Noah was the first snake collector. ~Eric~

Louisiana can go down the drain and nothing of substance will happen. Unfortunately, Louisiana is the Ugly Stepchild...once again.

Do serious long term economic (ecological) damage to Florida and things will happen.

Just my opinion.

jsc
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"As hard as I've tried, just can't NOT do this"
John Crickmer

Former Veep Chaney has been rather silent, lately. Wasn't he rather connected to Haliburton?

John, I can agree with that. I have friends all along the coast from TX to FL and in all States between.
LA has taken a beating for a long time and not too much of a peep really comes out of it. But yes, Florida will most likely get more attention for sure. I just think there should have been a fix it plan for this before it happened. But here we are how many days of gushing oil later? What ever they do at this point is too little too late for the most part. But they should have had a better plan to take care of this in the first place.
Everyone just looks to be standing around and twiddling there thumbs and looking like deer in the head lights of a car.
As for it fixing any government issues really though I doubt it. I hope so but as I said I would not hold my breath.
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Noah was the first snake collector. ~Eric~