BP Oil Spill Destin, Florida Clean Beach No Oil on Beach, Gerard Braud

Short video with an update on the clean beaches in Destin, Florida

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Oil Spill
• BP Oil Spill
• Florida Beaches
• Destin Florida
• Vacation

[paulasnap]

It looks lovely there, Gerard.

Have gone through the comments and can guess at some of your messages about using SM during a crisis. Saw this as well during Nestle's Facebook incident. Reason/facts don't necessarily have any impact on opinion/beliefs in SM channels.

Can't make it to your 'BP Blunders' session, but wish I could. Good luck with it

[gbraud]

@paulasnap Thanks Paul. As you see here, those frustrated with BP have a "shoot the messenger" mentality. They have a single belief and reject anyone who has evidence or an opinion contrary to theirs. This is akin to shouting down a speaker at a public meeting. They also mix in bogus beliefs... i.e. in Alaska if you dig down, you can find oil. That is not the case in the Gulf at this time. They also suppose I have an agenda, other than the fact I'm just reporting what I see.

[onthebeachinhawaii1]

Yes people dont put your life on hold, visit another beach, like in another country,

our gulf cost and our country is in a state of emergency, people in the gulf coast are in serious health risks,

this guy is a f*cking moron and only cares about the value of his real estate.

[gbraud]

@onthebeachinhawaii1 I'd like to include you in a case study for a class and a radio show.

If you are willing to, I'd like to know:

1) How did you stumble on this video

2) What compelled you to comment

3) Age, gender, highest grade completed in school, profession

If you'd like to send it privately, e-mail it to braudrefugee@yahoo.com

If you'd like to be interviewed, please include a phone number.

[picklesloveslight]

you won't be able to just smell it .. geesh

risking your tourists health is certainly not good publicity. Won't ever be going back to Florida knowing that the states doesn't care about their tourists health.

[gbraud]

@picklesloveslight I'd like to include you in a case study for a class and a radio show.

If you are willing to, I'd like to know:

1) How did you stumble on this video

2) What compelled you to comment

3) Age, gender, highest grade completed in school, profession

If you'd like to send it privately, e-mail it to braudrefugee@yahoo.com

If you'd like to be interviewed, please include a phone number.

[guitarscores]

u see using your eyes just dont work .... u gotta put the water in a test-tube and THEN analyse the content to see just how radical the changes have been .... thats why scientists use microscopes .... or astrologers telescopes .... they found out long long ago that there is actually stuff out there that we CANT see with our eyes ...

[BillSpaniel]

@gbraud Hi, Gerard. I like your comment to jeffmoto72 regarding how if there is a patch of oil, there would be 200 reporters checking it out in minutes. But since there is no oil around in the beach you walk, reporters don't care. News is the unusual, not the common. Most beaches are probably clean around the Gulf Coast, but most people wouldn't know it because the newspapers, television stations, and, yes, SM, prefer to talk about the spots where the oil is.

[jeffmoto72]

I'll pass on your radio show. I'm on air every weekday at drive time on a no market station in east Texas.

[duanehoff]

The cynicism and rudeness of the comments is depressing.

[duanehoff]

The cynicism and rudeness of the comments are depressing.

[TheJJ0nes]

very interesting, gerard. we believe what we want to believe, right? it looks beautiful. i'm going to try to make it to the teleseminar tomorrow, but not sure.

[kenyadee888]

Same experience when we were in Pensacola (which has since changed). In the absence of oil, the beaches are FINE. The dispersants are used wayyyy out in the water and only have a shelf life of 4 days. Not a concern for beachgoers splashing 10-20 feet off the coast for a week at the most.