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((I don't think Alabama is in trouble for hurricanes cause the last times they talked about hurricanes in Alabama it just grazed past us. But I don't know. I hope there wont be any hurricanes In Louisiana or anywhere else. Because I think with everything happening it will just make things worse then they already are.))

(( Why the explanation mark? And it's not that scary. The only part we're worrying about is that if a hurricane comes, we're gonna have oil in our backyards and get tons of people sick. ))

(( Katrina wasn't bad. The only reason it was horrible was because the leaves broke, which would've happened soon anyway, and New Orleans was below sea-level. ))

(( Are you kidding me? They don't care about the levies right now. Right now they care about rebuilding the barrier islands like most citizens want them to do. If we had the barrier islands, we wouldn't need the levies. And now, thanks to BP, we have to worry about saving our economy. ))

((No. Katrina was bad. Really bad. In the course of a month, they got like 112 inches of rain I think. Levies broke because the amount of water was too much for it to hold. You saying that the damage caused by the water wasn't bad, and the levies breaking because of the damage is bad, is like saying "Guns don't kill people, only bullets kill people" incorrect. Guns make the bullets, bullets kill. Katrina made the rain, rain broke levies and drowned like 100 people, and ruined 100,000 homes, caused trillions of dollars in damage, and 6 years later, not even close to being rebuilt.

On a scale of 1-10, 1 being a small rain storm and 10 being a typhoon, Katrina was sitting at about...an 8.

On the other situation with BP, people have to chill. Yes, it's bad. Yes, it spreads at the rate of a football field every second, yes, over 100 whales have beached themselves, and yes, it is not going to be fixed for years, but I mean, think about it. You guys probably don't know this, because you don't seem as in-tune to stuff as me, but the rate of successful oil transportation is 99.999%. Yes. Out of every 100,000 oil transports, containining as much or MORE oil that is coming out of the well, 1 of them spills. BP did cut corners, and didn't do the proper stuff they had to do, but it's already happened, instead of pointing fingers at BP, why don't we try doing something? The oil spill isn't hurting our economy. The amount of oil spilled, in contrast to the amount of oil we have and get on a weekly basis, that is like...a billion dollars, and it isn't our economy, because BP isn't an American Company. BRITISH PETROLEUM. Gosh...common sense.

And they are giving out free wind-shield repairs to help show us that they care, and are trying to find a way to make it up to each and every citizen who buys their oil. It isn't going to make up for the oil spill, but it is some poor form of apology. And believe me, when you have a car, you will know, that that windshield repair, could save you like 300$.))

((Actually, your intentions are good, but you are slightly misinformed. BP skipped billions of dollars in safety precautions, cut major corners, didn't have the proper surveying of the area, didn't use the equipment they should have, etc. It was an accident, but it could have been prevented.

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