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Old Jun 10th 2010, 1:30 pm
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http://www.ifitwasmyhome.com/

Click the link, put's the oil spill into perspective.

If you center it on London it's also fun.
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Old Jun 10th 2010, 1:49 pm
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I don't know which is worse, visualizing it where I live or seeing the oil gushing out of the pipe.....
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Old Jun 10th 2010, 11:19 pm
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Well it's wiping out Springfield and Worcester so it does have some benefits
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Old Jun 11th 2010, 3:08 am
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Well it's wiping out Springfield and Worcester so it does have some benefits
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Wow, I just wiped out Middlesbrough, Hull, Birmingham, Peterborough, Nottingham, Leicester, Manchester, Preston, Sheffield, Leeds and north Wales. Result!
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Old Jun 11th 2010, 3:27 am
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Shit. Not Ly-cest-er-shire.
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Old Jun 11th 2010, 4:00 am
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Default Re: What if it were your home... [Oil Spill]

Originally Posted by AmerLisa
I don't know which is worse, visualizing it where I live or seeing the oil gushing out of the pipe.....
I refuse to watch the webcams because it'll just depress me. Growing up on the Gulf Coast when it was slightly affected by a spill was bad enough - and that was just tar balls on the beach, very minimal effect on wildlife.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...1_ixtoc23.html

Our Texas beaches are pristine at the moment but that could change:

http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/new...stern-ba-1.asp

Oh - if I move the spill, it'd take out most of North Korea, but it would completely destroy the Netherlands.

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Default Re: What if it were your home... [Oil Spill]

Originally Posted by snowbunny

Oh - if I move the spill, it'd take out most of North Korea, but it would completely destroy the Netherlands.
If you increase it in size, allot, maybe?
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Well there goes Savannah AND Charleston.
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Fantastic. Just wiped out this horrible horrible little town I live in here! What a shame!
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Default Re: What if it were your home... [Oil Spill]

Originally Posted by MrEmjoy
http://www.ifitwasmyhome.com/

Click the link, put's the oil spill into perspective.

If you center it on London it's also fun.
Blimey, took out Glasgow AND Edinburgh AND Dundee AND Aberdeen (ironic) AND Fort William/Ben Nevis AND even across to Derry, NI!
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Default Re: What if it were your home... [Oil Spill]

Originally Posted by dunroving
Blimey, took out Glasgow AND Edinburgh AND Dundee AND Aberdeen (ironic) AND Fort William/Ben Nevis AND even across to Derry, NI!
There goes Jamaica ....
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