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Now turned into sludge. it won t even burn. it s easier to clean up than liquid oil, looks like mayonnaise or jell-o, you can lift it and pick it up in pieces. that s some good news. the winds will shift and it will get on shore this weekend. if they re doing the slow burn, first, when they say a slow burn, how long does that take? do you have any idea? does it prohibit from picking up the sludge you re talking about because you have burning oil all over the place? they move the oil from the big slick itself in these corals of oil. they move it away, they don t want the entire slick catching on fire. they move it away just far enough it will burn and the rest of the slick will not burn. there s no threat to the people sucking or skimming, basically, the water. there are 50 vessels out there, 1150 people working on this, skimming the water, spreading on disbursements of high-tech 409 ....
Where the hurricane is. if the hurricane went the other way, wouldn t that have been great? the wind would have been this way. it would have been blowing the oil away from shore and into the gulf of mexico where they could have rounded it off or burned it off. because now it s going to be such a quick, on-shore flow, this oil will be different than all the other oil we ve seen so far. this oil will not be a tar ball. this oil will not be a moose. this oil will be liquid. like you pour out of your 10-w-40 as you pour into your car. it will be more deadly than a tar ball. tar balls are what they are. they can being picked up. they re not as terrible to the wildlife. it s this liquid oil that s on its way now with hours and hours of on-shore flow that will be all the way through the bayous of louisiana, up through mississippi and louisiana. now, there s a slight east component, wind from the east here, that will help drag it ....