Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill of 4/20/2010

The Dreaming Tree: An American Tragedy
A fish killed by unknown causes washed ashore in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, on Monday.

Venice, Louisiana (CNN) -- A wind shift could push more oil from BP's Deepwater Horizon gusher into the Mississippi Delta and areas west of the river, which is "bad news for Louisiana," Gov. Bobby Jindal said Monday afternoon.

Louisiana has been mostly spared since the oil rig exploded April 20 and sank two days later about 50 miles (80 kilometers) off the southeast coast of Louisiana. The catastrophe is sending 210,000 gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico each day. Most of the slick has been centered in an area east of the environmentally sensitive delta.
"We've said all along that the oil coming west of the river would pose a whole new set of challenges," Jindal said at a news conference.
He detailed efforts to place booms and other restraining devices into four passes near Grand Isle to prevent the oil from reaching land.

Will you tell them that the reason nothing ever grows in the garden anymore, because they wanted to win the craziest race. That's this world over. Will you smile like any father, with your children on a sunday hike? When you get to a sea of rubble, and they ask, what was (your world) like. Ah, well, that's this world over; Ah, well, next one begins; Ah, well, that's this world over, you sadly grin.  - Andy Partridge

In spite of these sobering events I believe there is always hope and a glorious future is still ours to claim!