I have seen numerous posts, particularly on skytruth.org, regarding the "smell of oil" in Destin, Florida--I was in Destin all day yesterday at the beach and at Harborwalk village. There was no noticeable smell of oil. It may be that because people are expecting to smell it that even if it is car exhaust or a gas station or someone is burning a tiki tourch, an assumption could be made that they smell oil from the oil spill. I also spoke with some people who run boating excursions, who had full boats yesterday out in the gulf, which would have been much closer to the oil than we were on land, and I heard no complaints of an "oil smell." We need to be careful not to cry wolf until the wolf is actually here!! At this point the oil is still at least 75 miles from Destin--that's a long way for an "odor" to travel. I uploaded a picture I took of the water yesterday as well, and it is clear as always.
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