Oily Rain in New Orleans

[mj6000]

What do you think? Is this oily rain coming down in New Orleans? Here is the video.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/23/raining-oil-in-louisiana_n_622815.html

[jelise]

I got stopped at a checkpoint in the Lower Ninth Ward Wednesday for an expired brake tag.  They just ran my license and let me go (I think they were really looking for warrants), but I took it as a sign to get it together.  I have fallen behind on a lot of things during tx, so my registration was expired too and I had never changed it over to my new address either.

Anyway, I took leave today and went to take care of a bunch of business hour errands I can never get done - one of which was the DMV (yuck).  The DMV is very near a coffee shop I used to work at in River Ridge, so I stopped in and had a great time catching up with everyone.  It stormed while I was in the shop, and there was definitely no oil to be seen.  I even looked closely at all the puddles and ditches on the way home and didn't see anything anywhere.

I think that dude's neighbor's truck has an oil leak, or maybe there is a mechanic nearby who is not disposing of things correctly.  Who knows?  But I really don't think it is raining oil (yet) thank God.

I'll have to get back to y'all on the rainbows.  I didn't leave my house until almost ten, so if it was there this morning I missed it.  :)

[nygirl7]

wow I just don't know if it's just that the road had oil on it or if it was picked up from the Gulf - I'd like to see more reports of it before I freak out but maybe Jelise can be our detective and find out.   The rainbows in the sky every morning does sound a bit odd to me too - they aren't really THAT common.  Does it rain every morning or are they just there?

[IMstacie]

oil and water won't mix ??

[jelise]

River Ridge is only about 5 miles west of where I work.  I have family there - I'll have to call and ask what they've seen, but I haven't noticed any streets or puddles that look like the ones in the video.  I'm going to pay more attention on the way to work tomorrow.

You know what I have noticed though?  There have been big, bright, beautiful rainbows in the sky EVERY morning this week.  Odd that...  

[mj6000]

I don't know why,it does for me...keep trying. The article is still up at huffingtonpost.com right now if you want to go that route to look for it... I myself believe it is oily rain.

[Diane12855]

The link didn't work for me.