Yesterday, I heard that Hurricane Earl was making its way around from Georgia to Florida, and around the South East coast. Eventually, Earl will be making his way up the East Coast, past my first and second families.
Naturally, I wanted to curse nature. I used to live in the South, and even though I have never lived on the coast, I've experienced the aftermath of those hurricanes. The rain is terrible and the wind is vicious. So, of course, I was determined to find the silver lining. Due to the recent tragic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the executives of BP and the native animals have been in deep, dark, and slick trouble.
Although a lot of people are pulling resources together to help these animals and the health of the Gulf, it is clear to me - and to the world - that this disaster is far from being solved. However, I still wanted to find something positive about the situation, because of the impending negativity of Hurricane Earl.
As reported on Thursday, September 3, there are now certain areas of the Northern Gulf of Mexico that can be used for fishing and shrimping. As a vegetarian, I should be against this - I don't fish, and I don't eat fish. However, this is a boost for the faultering economy on the land near the Gulf. The article says that roughly 43,000 square miles of federal waters off the coast of Louisiana are still closed; this is a positive point. There was no contamination found in the seafood in the reopened area, and the area is considered low-risk.
(Information about the fishing area, and the photo, is property of the Associated Press, and can be found at: http://blog.al.com/live/2010/09/fishing_reopened_in_5130_squar.html.)
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