I live on the Gulf Coast…a lovely place if you are in a coma…..but enough of that….in 2005 Hurricane Katrina kicked our ass…in case you are not aware Katrina hit the Mississippi Gulf Coast, NOT New Orleans…..NO was a man made disaster…the levies could not hold….the after math of the storm was a complete breakdown in the community and an environmental nightmare….

And just when things were getting a bit better…BP gave us a real cool piece of news….yet another environmental disaster was heading our way……the seafood and fishing industries were one of the major employment blocks  in the are…..hopefully, everyone will remember just how really great that disaster was for about a 100 days before BP put a cork in the leak…..

The fix, the cork as it were has worked well for a time now….but just when we thought things would start to return to a chaotic norm we have this bit of news……

An offshore petroleum platform exploded and was burning Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico about 80 miles off the Louisiana coast, west of the site where BP’s undersea well spilled after a rig explosion.The Coast Guard says no one was killed in the blast, which was reported by a commercial helicopter flying over the area Thursday morning. All 13 people aboard the rig have been accounted for, with one injury. The extent of the injury was not known.

Seven Coast Guard helicopters, two airplanes and three cutters were dispatched to the scene from New Orleans, Houston and Mobile, Ala., Ben-Iesau said. She said authorities do not know whether oil was leaking from the site.  (Thanx to AP for the story)

While writing this post it is being reported that the Coast Guard has found a small oil sheen 100 feet wide and about a mile long……the Gulf Coast may have dodged a bullet on this rig explosion….but it is still early and as we know a lot can go wrong….

I will update this post as needed……