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Blue Owl

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15. Not again!

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Fri Jul 2, 2021, 07:10 PM

Jul 2021

WTF is wrong with these oil drillers -- can't they see they're playing with literal fire and their underwater wells (along with their land wells for that matter) are gonna ruin the food chain and the natural environment???

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The ocean is on fire in the Gulf of Mexico after a pipeline ruptured. [View all] Nevilledog Jul 2021 OP

This is the beginning of a disaster movie-please lord tell me this is not really our earth now. Boxerfan Jul 2021 #1

The ocean is on fire in the Gulf of Mexico after a pipeline ruptured. FelineOverlord Jul 2021 #2

Wild Nevilledog Jul 2021 #3

Oh hell, there's a storm headed this way now. Haggard Celine Jul 2021 #4

a furricane? A hurrifire? getagrip_already Jul 2021 #6

I'm gonna be an optimist about this..... Haggard Celine Jul 2021 #10

Is that the plot sarisataka Jul 2021 #7

It's begging for a sequel. Haggard Celine Jul 2021 #11

Got me. Laughed at the thought of that...nt JanMichael Jul 2021 #13

Maybe Elsa will put out the fire. wnylib Jul 2021 #16

Yeah, a good old-fashioned nuke should take care of it. Haggard Celine Jul 2021 #22

That's what TFG says and we know we can trust him. wnylib Jul 2021 #24

LOL! n/t EndlessWire Jul 2021 #28

Drilling for oil, and piping it from place to place, under the ocean, what could possibly go wrong? Chainfire Jul 2021 #5

I hope they've evacuated that platform. nt Phoenix61 Jul 2021 #8

Again? nt alphafemale Jul 2021 #9

When the Cuyahoga River caught fire near Cleveland, it helped spark (sorry) the environmental tblue37 Jul 2021 #12

The Cuyahoga River runs throuh Cleveland. wnylib Jul 2021 #19

My bad. Relying on old memory from 1969. tblue37 Jul 2021 #20

Fixed it. Thanks. tblue37 Jul 2021 #21

I lived in Cleveland just a few years after wnylib Jul 2021 #23

Gosh, things are just going so well lately, aren't they? hatrack Jul 2021 #14

Not again! Blue Owl Jul 2021 #15

It's under control now FelineOverlord Jul 2021 #17

That's no small rupture! nt Earth-shine Jul 2021 #18

Where is this exactly? Mr.Bill Jul 2021 #25

Is this something that happened on Venus ? magicarpet Jul 2021 #26

Good that humans have never (as of yet) set off a similar uncontrolled PufPuf23 Jul 2021 #27

We're killing our planet's life, yet... Duppers Jul 2021 #29

Wow, we are really going all out here to destroy the planet it seems. smirkymonkey Jul 2021 #30