Remembering the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
The other day I found an old T-shirt in the bottom of a box in the closet, a 3XL anti-British Petroleum shirt that fits like a tent now (6 years and 80lbs ago). It brought back a lot of memories of living in the Florida Panhandle during the tragic oil spill of 2010. Six years have passed since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill that dumped 210 million gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico. So much has changed since then. I was living in Panama City, Fl at the time of the spill, it was my first summer there as a resident. While we all had fears of our beautiful beaches being inundated with oil, we all saw and felt the economic downturn that occurred even without oil on the beaches. The T-shirt I'm wearing in this picture was purchased to benefit coastal communities and raise awareness for the BP oil spill of 2010. It was a summer of discontent. Millions of gallons of oil lurked offshore, somewhere off in the distance, prone to the Gulfstream and th...