Guys, thank you. I hope Michelle won't mind me saying, but she's in flare right now and is feeling awfully unwell. Still, she helped so much this week, doing very last minute arrangements yet again. I'm hoping that she will spend tonight relaxing with her family and friends at BBQ.
My sweetie flew back this morning. He just arrived at Michelle's where he's picking up a whole whack of HE, that she took delivery of on our behalf yesterday. They are going back Grand Isle way so that in the morning they can, we understand, he will be demonstrating HE for members of the Parish government. I have been trying all day to get in contact with Canada'a top two news networks and have left messages all over. My sweetie just told me that there are U.S. news media alerted to the demo tomorrow.
Our engineer's data after last week's adventure were pretty darned conculsive as to the efficacy of HE. Even given the limited amount of time we had to conduct the tests, he says that HE is capable, in a 3,000 foot roll, depending on the width, of picking up about 5 barrels of oil at a fraction of the cost of current reclamation methods. The oil can be reclaimed.
So, that's where we stand. Luckily the rental car agency messed up the reservation and gave my sweetie and his equally tall associate a smaller vehicle than was requested. The problems were immediately evident and they upgraded them to an SUV for no extra charge. They're picking up the HE and driving several hours back across the state to be in place in the morning.
Wish them luck. The drive behind this, the immediate goal for all of us is to try to help fix this for the people of Louisiana and for the beautiful land they live in. We know what we have can be part of the solution, for it will have to be a multi-pronged approach to have any success in cleaning up this mess.
By the way, the hair idea is ingenious and it does soak up oil, as we've all found out at various times in our lives. Problem is, it gets too heavy and sinks, as Michelle found out when she invented the idea back in the '90s after a tanning oil and hair incident in her pool.
Warm hugs,
