No surfing.
Residents of coastal Orange County woke up, Sunday morning, to the awful news that a pipeline carrying crude oil has leaked 126,000 five miles off the coast, creating a slick 5.8 nautical miles running from the Huntington Beach pier to Newport Beach.
The spill has led to the cancellation of the Pacific Airshow and closure of the beach from the pier to the Santa Ana River jetty.
“It’s still leaking and the responsible party for this is underway right now trying to repair the leak from the pipeline,” Orange County Supervisor Katrina Foley told KTLA news, referring to the oil platform Elly, operated by Beta Offshore, a Long Beach, Calif., unit of Houston’s Amplify Energy.
Dead birds and fish are already washing up to a shore that is increasingly coated black.
Officials from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife are asking residents to not attempt to help affected animals and to report any animal sightings to the Oiled Wildlife Care Network at 877-823-6926.
Huntington Beach Mayor Kim Carr called the spill a “potential ecological disaster” as the region races to contain damage.
Nothing to be proud of here; just soul-eliminated bodies ready for their next job working in someone’s *private* military army unofficially affiliated with any nation so as to avoid political protocols (a la Geneva Convention) or recognized “rules of engagement.” Not talking about Blackwater Boy Scouts but *real* animals such as Putin’s own Wagner Group (pronounced like Nazi composed Richard Wagner, with a “v”). These are the new commandos. This the new war. https://ndupress.ndu.edu/Me…
KRob is looking terrific.
Well done KS!!
when i go back home to san diego every Christmas, it gets harder every time to find anyone in that middle ground. just brainwashed zombies, half of them frothing at the mouth about what they were told by their overlords at NBC and the other half spewing FOX propaganda. Twilight Zone level stuff happening.
This is the fault of all the politicians I disagree with.
I read one article by an ignorant clown called stu nettle who thought that concaves were invented in the mid ’90’s.
Then read one by Longtom about bonzers and had the master Terry Richardson in it who had concaves in his seventies bonzers.
After that I came to the conclusion that LT made a mistake going over there considering his speciality is contest reporting, I just hope they’re paying him well.
The comments in those two articles seemed to be written by kooks with no grounding in reality.
It appears to be a site run by, and for, barristas and the groomed facial hair brigade and anyone who think surf yuppie areas like byron, raglan and malibu etc are suitable places to live.
I won’t be visiting that site again…
Lol lumping Raglan in with Byron and Malibu
At least let the new housing development finish Jeez
Haha
Of course Raglan does get bigger and better waves more often, but the people that gravitate to those places are of a similar media-led ilk I mean.
Small towns that inevitably become blown out by more yoga studios and vegan eateries etc per head of population than is feasibly appropriate and which encourage more hoards of media-led tourists and vals who end up staying, building and opening even more coffee stands, beard grooming shops and DJ schools, while praying to the gods of Bondi and Bali.
Some call it inevitable progress, some just call it quite a shame really…
I don’t disagree to be honest. It’ll happen, and the lack of tourists at the moment is only delaying the inevitable I suppose. Soon the dreamcatchers on rear vision mirrors will return : /. I’m not sure if my distaste is selfish or fair
Grab your buckets and funnels boys. Some of you filthy bastards on here can finally afford to leave this state.
Did someone say Midnight Oil?
Well alrighty then! Here ya go!
https://youtu.be/Xbg2e48aJOk
Crypto jargon
It’s so hot right now
Yes, it sums up the blues existence don’t it?
Full of shit
Except that those leases were all put out under Gov Reagan and Wilson. Oops.
Off with their grandchildrens heads!!!
Is B&B Hutchy19?
No, I’m thirsty and in need of weed…
True
They were saved to go in the heads of future eVehicle buyers who don’t seem to realise that just as much oil, gas and coal is burnt to run their electric transport systems as it does to run IC engines.
P.S.
Nuclear is cleaner (and even safer these days) for electricity production if eVehicles are to be a realistic ‘planet-saving’ proposition…
Umm. Fukushima was a thing?
All part of the plan to breed bigger, bumpier fish with extra eyes and a brighter tinge of green to get higher prices during the annual Chinese New Year and wedding season market boom.
The unfortunate side affect has been more aggressive sharks migrating to the ever increasing popular surf areas of Australia and California…
Err duh.
The fact that there is an actual Oiled Wildlife Care Network with a permanent phone number means this happens too often
Electric cars need a lot of plastic, ie oil.
I like the fact that Chaz wrote “leaked 126,000”. No units. Very trash prose.
It’s also exactly what the authorities do.
126,000 liters.
Did we day liters?
We ment gallons.
No, actually barrels.
And the number is 1.26 mil.
126,000 gallons. The reports are not saying barrels.
I saw that from another source but Chas didn’t assign a unit.
Last time a tanker hit the Bay Bridge, initial reports were in gallons. Next day same number, but barrels.
I bet Chas had initially assigned a unit of measurement, using the vodka conversion formula. But then he felt bad, and worried some may think him insensitive. Yep. I bet that’s what happened.
Breakfast bloody Mary variables.
Worserforsure sauce
Lol the only thing funny about this situation is how seemingly riled up you are over an error..
Riled up? It’s hilarious.
BG. Facts rarely matter.
Shark attack at Salmon Creek this morning, he lived.
All of him?
He’s got all his limbs still.
It’s an epidemic
October is when the Elephant Seals show up here and so do the massive whites to eat them.
I thought they had very good memories.
Myth busted.
Decided to check out Swellnet to read Long Toms’s writing still, read two articles and the comment section. Is humor against the rules over there? Even you and channel bottom were serious. I decided to come back here and see what Jonah Hill is up to.
That’s not CB
I called Longtom
The Ultimate surf nerd?
Didn’t tickle you?
Ugh.
Sharktober!
There’s an article at the Santa Rosa Press Democrat. Not exiting enough for a BG article .
If it was 126,000 barrels the beach would be drenched in oil.
Like Santa Barbara seepage? No, that’s natural, or so they say.
Well.
If it had to happen, it could at least have been a couple of weeks ago, and put a stop to the world’s shittest surf comp…
harsh, but fair.
As long as they don’t spray any dispersant it hopefully won’t be too bad
Nothing to sea here.
Or there