EU Times Reports California Notified of Gulf Evacuation Plans

The idea of evacuating millions of people from the Gulf Coast boggles the mind.  I mean, my first thought was, “Is this story in the same news category as “Man Marries Monkey, Twins Expected.”  

I hesitated in posting this story yesterday.  EU Times and Wayne Madsen are good sources,  but I can’t believe that anyone would seriously consider evacuating people from the Gulf Coast to California, especially in FEMA vans with dead batteries and dry rotted tires (that’s a joke).  What was left unsaid by the EU Times was “what the hell would cause such a plan to be needed?”  I CAN ONLY THINK OF THREE WORDS:  METHANE, METHANE, METHANE.  If ya’ll go down to Florida, leave your matches in Georgia or Alabama.

Read the EU story and make up your own mind. EU Times news story of 6/30/10, “California Notified of Gulf Evacuation Plans.”  

“A well-placed source in California told WMR that the California Emergency Management Agency (CEMA) has been briefed by its counterpart agencies in the Gulf coast states that there are plans to conduct a mass evacuation of millions of Gulf coast residents due to the catastrophic environmental and public health effects of the BP oil disaster.

 CEMA officials have been briefed on the planned evacuations by counterparts in the Louisiana Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, the Alabama Emergency Management Agency, the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency, and the Florida Division of Emergency Management.” 

The Gulf states’ emergency planners stressed to their California counterparts that they are dealing with a disaster of unprecedented proportions and that contingency plans are being constantly updated and revised on ways to deal with the transformation of the Gulf of Mexico into a deadly “toxic soup” of oil and Corexit 9500 oil dispersants and the atmosphere into a dangerous mixture of hydrocarbon gases. 

CEMA was briefed on the impending mass evacuation since California would be expected to absorb a large number of evacuees from the Gulf states. CEMA officials did not say how the state of California, which is virtually bankrupt, would pay for the influx of hundreds of thousands and perhaps greater numbers of evacuees from the Gulf coastal region.” 

Salem-News and Veteran Today’s news stories on the FEMA plan to evacuate Tamp Bay of those with respiratory problems in the event of a burn-of crude oil in Tampa Bay, pale in comparison to the EU Times report.  For the source of these news stories, see: Oil Price.com’s Wayne Madsen Report (WMR) of May 6st.

A  VT news posted  by me, “FEMA Plans to Evacuate Tampa Bay Area In Place?”  received over 114,000 page views and 151 readers comments as of July 3rd. This story was based  on an earlier Wayne Madsen report and reported in the Examiner.com.

 “Florida Gulf Oil Spill: Plans to Evacuate Tampa Bay in Place” was pulled by the Examiner on June 30th. This story was originally published back in May. The source of the story was the  Wayne Madsen Report (WMR) of May 6st.   The Examiner printed a revised version of the story, ” Florida Gulf oil spill: Plans to evacute some in Tampa Bay is suggested possibility.”  on July 1st.  The revised version stated that, “An earlier version of this article stated that plans to evacuate the Tampa Bay area were expected to be announced. The article has since been clarified to explain that the alleged plans were not independently confirmed and referred only to some people with respiratory problems along the coast in the event of controlled burns.”  

 The Examiner, based in Denver, CO, operates a network of news websites, allowing citizen journalists to share their knowledge on a blog-like platform in several hundred markets in the United States and Canada.

Why did the Examiner wait two months to revise this story? Speculation is that either BP or SOMEONE in the FEMA, the Coast Guard or other federal government agency pressured the Examiner to revise the story. There’s no question that anyone with respiratory problems should evacuate any area where there are odors from a crude oil burn-off. If the Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM) has not planned for this threat, they could be accused of gross negligence.  

Even if you don’t live in one of the Gulf Coast states, this is one story you want to closely follow.

Report from the EU:  EU Times news story of 6/30/10, California Notified of Gulf Evacuation Plans.”  

Robert O'Dowd

Robert O’Dowd served in the 1st, 3rd and 4th Marine Aircraft Wings during 52 months of active duty in the 1960s. While at MCAS El Toro for two years, O’Dowd worked and slept in a Radium 226 contaminated work space in Hangar 296 in MWSG-37, the most industrialized and contaminated acreage on the base.

Robert is a two time cancer survivor and disabled veteran. Robert graduated from Temple University in 1973 with a bachelor’s of business administration, majoring in accounting, and worked with a number of federal agencies, including the EPA Office of Inspector General and the Defense Logistics Agency.

After retiring from the Department of Defense, he teamed up with Tim King of Salem-News.com to write about the environmental contamination at two Marine Corps bases (MCAS El Toro and MCB Camp Lejeune), the use of El Toro to ship weapons to the Contras and cocaine into the US on CIA proprietary aircraft, and the murder of Marine Colonel James E. Sabow and others who were a threat to blow the whistle on the illegal narcotrafficking activity. O’Dowd and King co-authored BETRAYAL: Toxic Exposure of U.S. Marines, Murder and Government Cover-Up. The book is available as a soft cover copy and eBook from Amazon.com. See: http://www.amazon.com/Betrayal-Exposure-Marines-Government-Cover-Up/dp/1502340003.