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Testing stations in the Gulf have detected levels of benzene three times higher than what OSHA considers to be safe

 
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bsflag

With a Lying administration like we have, with a lying EPA, HLS, CDC, WHO like we have, with corruption like we have, how can anyone believe anything coming from those toilets???????
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Or maybe I'll just put a bullet in my head. Why prolong the agony any further, humans fucking suck.

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FML - take is easy man, I know this is some very horrible shit, but the house is not worth your life.
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If anyone is sick down there ITS FROM THE GLOBALLY BANNED DISPERSANT!
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i hope everyone realizes that this air quality situation can quickly lead to mass panic, like overnite
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Most of the people in the town where I live near Gainesville, FL are not taking the Gulf situation seriously at all. They are just going about their day to day business, naively thinking that everything is Hunky Dorry. I just want to shake these people and say WAKE UP!!!!!
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Benzene is some nasty shit!!!

I had one exposure at low levels but it was enough to cause mild convulsions, rapid heart beat and dizziness. It was a spill in a factory while I was painting the place. It was new construction and the last stages were being done. Moving in equipment and initial supplies.

I was exposed for about 1 minute, mild levels.

6 months later I had Hodgkins Lymphoma Stage II with a bilky mass in my chest and another cancer mass that wrapped around the top of my heart and arteries.

The lymphoma started in my lymphnodes and throat area where it was inhaled.

I am cured now but I was lucky. I received compensation and damages and now I can live in comfort but I'm not rich over it. I still have side effects to this day years later.

My fingers are partially numb, I get panic attacks out of no where and I have a benign cyst in my spinal cord.

The treatment was an agonizing 9 months of misery, depression and pain. The chemotherapy saturated my body twice a week and I felt sick as hell, weak and down right aweful. I developed a tolerance to oxycodone as I had to use it or else I would have lost my mind and suffered even greater. So when the treatment was over I had to face withdrawal of opiates too.

Take it from me, you do NOT want to be inhaling benzene. A 1minute exposure caused all of this in my life. Imagine what daily exposure can do.

Do NOT fuck around and do NOT allow innocent children to suffer from this.

Look what benzene did to me, it will happen to you too. You do not want what I had to go through. I wouldn't wish it on a worst enemy if I had one.

Leave the Gulf Coast. You will look back if you don't and beg why you didn't then. Hind sight is a bitch when you deny your gut feelings.
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we are just weeks away from cleaning up 90% of the ouil - So says our prez......


LOL
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anyone notice new chemtrails

they look different

like microscopic beads or ropes twisting unlike anything i ever saw before

in usa south now............

new chemical mixing chemtrail sprays with corexit and other oil spill gases

and the flow is directly oppose the normal west to east wind circulation

all strange and new
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Benzine comes from boiling oil. Lots of that down there...../BS

The ocean water is 30deg. F at 5000' down.
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Benzene is some nasty shit!!!

I had one exposure at low levels but it was enough to cause mild convulsions, rapid heart beat and dizziness. It was a spill in a factory while I was painting the place. It was new construction and the last stages were being done. Moving in equipment and initial supplies.

I was exposed for about 1 minute, mild levels.

6 months later I had Hodgkins Lymphoma Stage II with a bilky mass in my chest and another cancer mass that wrapped around the top of my heart and arteries.

The lymphoma started in my lymphnodes and throat area where it was inhaled.

I am cured now but I was lucky. I received compensation and damages and now I can live in comfort but I'm not rich over it. I still have side effects to this day years later.

My fingers are partially numb, I get panic attacks out of no where and I have a benign cyst in my spinal cord.

The treatment was an agonizing 9 months of misery, depression and pain. The chemotherapy saturated my body twice a week and I felt sick as hell, weak and down right aweful. I developed a tolerance to oxycodone as I had to use it or else I would have lost my mind and suffered even greater. So when the treatment was over I had to face withdrawal of opiates too.

Take it from me, you do NOT want to be inhaling benzene. A 1minute exposure caused all of this in my life. Imagine what daily exposure can do.

Do NOT fuck around and do NOT allow innocent children to suffer from this.

Look what benzene did to me, it will happen to you too. You do not want what I had to go through. I wouldn't wish it on a worst enemy if I had one.

Leave the Gulf Coast. You will look back if you don't and beg why you didn't then. Hind sight is a bitch when you deny your gut feelings.
 Quoting: ºCRAPº

The numbness in your fingers will pass...I know..NHL stage 2 grade 3.....same area...Chemo and Radiation..the numbness goes...eventually...it will take about 2 years..
Source of info personal experience.
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Now you know why those workers are gettin' sick. Yeah, it's food poisoning, alright. Fuck Tony Hayward and BP!!
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Benzine comes from boiling oil. Lots of that down there...../BS

The ocean water is 30deg. F at 5000' down.
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yes, but the oil coming out is over the boiling point for water---200-500% at that depth in the Earth;s crust---the pocket of oil is 4 miles down. That is why this is such a problem---depth changes all the rules. They were poking around beyond our capability to deal with unpredictable variables---engineering is difficult down there due to the extreme pressure. There is more gas in the deposit than we are aware. Also minerals like vanadium and nickel in the supposedly clear water which are poisonous to humans.
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I woke up this morning with a nasty white powdery residue on the windshield of my Jeep. I've never seen this shit before in my 32 years. I don't yet know what it is, but it's all I need to know for me to get the fuck outta here. I'll take some pictures and post them later today.

And I doubt I put a bullet in my head, although the thought, for the first time in my life has crossed my mind several times within the past few weeks.

I've never lived my life in fear, I think for the 1st time, I'm finally experiencing what true fear is, and with that, comes the thought of the unknown. If I stay, I have a pretty good idea with what I'm going to be dealing with. If I go, I leave my entire family behind, but also know I have the ability to start over again, albeit, in a load of fucking debt.

My folks live less than 5 minutes from Mobile Bay in Fairhope. They're in it for the long haul, no way their leaving. The rest of my family, most of which I have little contact with, also live in Mobile. If the worst happens to them, I'm alone in this world. I have friends, but no more family. That's the thought that truly disturbs me.
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Doesen't burning/igniting the horror, make the dispersant 'disperse,' as well as INFINETELY MORE toxic, no?
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yes!
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It is sunny clear and clean in the yucatan and the gulf stream goes no where near here.
Cheap places to lease on craigslist in the yucatan.
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all Ive heard is that hydrogen sulfide is very dangerous stuff


too lazy to look it up now...but google it
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Case studies of extreme HS concentrationss one was on NatGeo a month or so ago about a lake in Africa where entire villages were killed off by volcanicly sourced HS coming up out of a lake. Survivors reported seeing a fog roll in.
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Here are symptoms of Hydrogen Sulfide I posted earlier this week. Both low and high exposure symptoms.

Hydrogen Sulfide exposure symptoms(H2S) Rotten egg sour gas

Chronic low-level exposure of hydrogen sulfide results primarily in irritation to mucous membranes and the respiratory system. People exposed to hydrogen sulfide can lose their ability to smell the gas even though it is still present in the environment.

Low-level exposure of hydrogen sulfide most often affects the mucous membranes and may show the following few physical signs:
o Conjunctivitis (even at levels of only 4 ppm)
o Pharyngitis
o Wheezing
o Headaches
o Asthenia
o Bronchitis

High-level exposures of hydrogen sulfide result in more neurologic and pulmonary symptoms.
o Cough
o Dyspnea
o Vertigo
o Confusion
o Nausea and vomiting
o Possible loss of consciousness
o Hemoptysis

Very high concentrations lead to cardiorespiratory arrest because of brainstem toxicity.
o Myocardial infarction
o Sudden loss of consciousness ("knockdown")
o Seizure
o Cardiopulmonary arrest
o Bradycardia
o Tremulousness
o Agitation
o Cyanosis
o Acute respiratory distress syndrome [ARDS])
 Quoting: OVRANALYZE

You forgot to list DEATH as one of the effects of high concentrations.
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I woke up this morning with a nasty white powdery residue on the windshield of my Jeep. I've never seen this shit before in my 32 years. I don't yet know what it is, but it's all I need to know for me to get the fuck outta here. I'll take some pictures and post them later today.

And I doubt I put a bullet in my head, although the thought, for the first time in my life has crossed my mind several times within the past few weeks.

I've never lived my life in fear, I think for the 1st time, I'm finally experiencing what true fear is, and with that, comes the thought of the unknown. If I stay, I have a pretty good idea with what I'm going to be dealing with. If I go, I leave my entire family behind, but also know I have the ability to start over again, albeit, in a load of fucking debt.

My folks live less than 5 minutes from Mobile Bay in Fairhope. They're in it for the long haul, no way their leaving. The rest of my family, most of which I have little contact with, also live in Mobile. If the worst happens to them, I'm alone in this world. I have friends, but no more family. That's the thought that truly disturbs me.
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Hang in there, best you can. We'll survive this somehow. Difficult, traumatic and a pain in the ass, but we'll survive
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we are just weeks away from cleaning up 90% of the ouil - So says our prez......


LOL
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Leaving the 10% of 60,000 barrels a day, taking us back to the sitrup guesstimate of only 6,000 barrels a day, even that is above the older guesstimate of 5,000 barrels a day. Do effectivley going from 5,000 Barrels a day uncaptured to 6,000 barrels a day uncaptured. Not progress at all.
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FWIW, while I think of it.

Legally Obama cannot supsend the Jones Act.


BUT Congress could repeal it even immediatly today... so where is Congress on this? Let's not just put all this on Obama, Congress is sleeping more than even Obama. Sure they are posturing with their hearings... but however just repealing the Jones Act today? It won't happen.

Let's not let Congress off the hook on this.
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It turns into sulphuric acid in your lungs. Slow death
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It kills you faster than that. It robs your blood of oxygen. At those concentrations, it can knock you out and kill you quick. It is slightly heavier than air, but not much so wind and other factors can keep it off the ground.
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i hope everyone realizes that this air quality situation can quickly lead to mass panic, like overnite


Most of the people in the town where I live near Gainesville, FL are not taking the Gulf situation seriously at all. They are just going about their day to day business, naively thinking that everything is Hunky Dorry. I just want to shake these people and say WAKE UP!!!!!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1002172

Same in Fort Walton Beach, FL. My boyfriend doesn't want to leave cause he has a good job here. I asked him, "So you want to die here?" He said, "Yes." I have to leave though, I will not stay much longer.
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Here are symptoms of Hydrogen Sulfide I posted earlier this week. Both low and high exposure symptoms.

Hydrogen Sulfide exposure symptoms(H2S) Rotten egg sour gas

Chronic low-level exposure of hydrogen sulfide results primarily in irritation to mucous membranes and the respiratory system. People exposed to hydrogen sulfide can lose their ability to smell the gas even though it is still present in the environment.

Low-level exposure of hydrogen sulfide most often affects the mucous membranes and may show the following few physical signs:
o Conjunctivitis (even at levels of only 4 ppm)
o Pharyngitis
o Wheezing
o Headaches
o Asthenia
o Bronchitis

High-level exposures of hydrogen sulfide result in more neurologic and pulmonary symptoms.
o Cough
o Dyspnea
o Vertigo
o Confusion
o Nausea and vomiting
o Possible loss of consciousness
o Hemoptysis

Very high concentrations lead to cardiorespiratory arrest because of brainstem toxicity.
o Myocardial infarction
o Sudden loss of consciousness ("knockdown")
o Seizure
o Cardiopulmonary arrest
o Bradycardia
o Tremulousness
o Agitation
o Cyanosis
o Acute respiratory distress syndrome [ARDS])

You forgot to list DEATH as one of the effects of high concentrations.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 985286

Does benzene or hydrogen sulfide leave your body or stay in it?
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The numbness in your fingers will pass...I know..NHL stage 2 grade 3.....same area...Chemo and Radiation..the numbness goes...eventually...it will take about 2 years..
Source of info personal experience.
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If it were from the chemo yes, it will go away.

Unfortunately mine is from the resulting Syringomyelia. I have a syrinx in my spinal cord now from the radiation and chemo.

It is benign but it is from C2 to the end of the cervical part of the spine.

It disturbs my neurotransmission mostly through my upper shoulders, lower neck and down the arms. I also have a lack of temperature sensetivity generally over my whole body except for above my neck.

I was advised to use gabapentin and oxycodone but I pass. Oxycodone is a sweet angel at first, but it transforms into a hellish devil after a few months. Never use for more then a week straight, you will regret it.

I deal with various sensations through bench press and sprinting mile runs on the track. The endorphin rush really helps. The whole ordeal actually made my life more healthy so there is a great positive after the fact.
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My folks live less than 5 minutes from Mobile Bay in Fairhope. They're in it for the long haul, no way their leaving. The rest of my family, most of which I have little contact with, also live in Mobile. If the worst happens to them, I'm alone in this world. I have friends, but no more family. That's the thought that truly disturbs me.
 Quoting: Hatfield

SOmetimes you can't save the world, friends and/or family. Sometimes you need to do what you know is right, pave the way and lead by example. If they see you pull it off they may follow.

Sometimes people WILL uproot and move but they need a leader to make it happen. Otherwise they will not move.

In this case, you may be that leader. In the worst case scenario, you will be able to carry on the memory of who they were and keep the family genes going onward.

God Bless
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It turns into sulphuric acid in your lungs. Slow death



i hope everyone realizes that this air quality situation can quickly lead to mass panic, like overnite


Jees thats harsh and grim,I bet Canada's population will increase dramatically within the a year,I wont mind.
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I bet when all the fat bodies start waddling over the border, with a myriad of health issues, putting a strain on your national healthcare, you might start to mind.

headlessch Canadian F headlessch Canadian F
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The report yesterday was 1200 parts per million...which is 1.2 parts per Billion

Still recommended exposure to levels lower than 10 parts per Billion for humans is 8 hours.
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The report yesterday was 1200 parts per million...which is 1.2 parts per Billion

Still recommended exposure to levels lower than 10 parts per Billion for humans is 8 hours.
 Quoting: Hypertiger 987710

Ummm....

1200 ppm (parts per million)= 1,200,000 ppb (parts per billion)
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Tell the New Agers around here to think happy love thoughts.

I am sure that will take care of it.

There is such a thing as "EVIL".

Now the grim reality is beginning to settle in for many.
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Is this advice equally applicable to the east coast of florida too ? got friends in JAX, wondering if I need to pass this on...
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Stupid huh?

Sitting in the head lights with a frozen brain.
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Re: Testing stations in the Gulf have detected levels of benzene three times higher than what OSHA considers to be safe
all Ive heard is that hydrogen sulfide is very dangerous stuff


too lazy to look it up now...but google it
 Quoting: Stu

I posted a thread on this last week. Dangerous and extremely deadly, both Benzene and H2s

Thread: >>> BENZENE, H2s(Hydrogen Sulfide), Low lying areas and what YOU GULFERS NEED TO KNOW ASAP - Especially N.O.
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