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To: carranza2 who wrote (73699)	5/26/2010 10:00:07 AM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 74559

These major oil spills like Exxon-Valdez and DWH are painful life-changing events for large numbers of people. There will be bankruptcies, divorces, suicides, illness, the whole gamut. And of course there will be winners amid the chaos: lawyers, consultants, suppliers, politicians, reporters, etc. It's a highly dramatic event that will go on interminably.

To: carranza2 who wrote (73699)	5/26/2010 7:23:16 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

C2, there has been plenty of video and so on and there's plenty of information to have a pretty reasonable guess as to the extent of the damage. It's easier to guess that than who is to blame. It was funny when the cameras were roaming around looking for any hint of a problem and they came up with some bits of tar or dog poop or something. Also, let's use words to match situations. Calamity would normally involve more than a dozen dead people. That is disaster size [barely]. Catastrophe and calamity should be reserved for something serious or we end up with grey ooze language with everything that happens at full scale deflection. The Titanic sinking was a disaster. The Xmas day tsunami was well up the disaster scale and really into calamity territory. A famine wiping out a million or two could be said to be catastrophic. I know people worship swamps these days, aka wetlands, but really, a swamp is not a big deal. The oil spill won't amount to much. Yes, it's bad for people directly affected but I bet it's only as bad as it seems. The airliner crash in Mangalore was a much greater disaster than the well, but it hasn't had as many column inches or prime time tv. Mass hysteria C2!! Tiny in the scheme of things. Mqurice