"Toxic Gumbo"-stupid MSM phrase about a real hurricane threat

[underpants]

CNN had an LSU professor on this morning talking about how gas tanks-each gas tank at each gas station- are above ground in the general New Orleans area, not just the coffins. This coupled with the MASSIVE chemical plants and the household chemicals from each household could create "Toxic Gumbo" (of course the prof didn't say that the talking heads started using that term). The LSU profs name was Van Heerden (something like that) and a colleague of his was on Fox but I don't think they got around to a discussion of this.

Frightening. See this article for a better understanding of the size of the chemical threat (not just the price of gas) possible here.

Hope for the best.

http://www.seeingblack.com/x040901/toxic_gumbo.shtml
In the "Cancer Belt," Louisiana Black Communities
Fight Industrial Polluters
By Ron Nixon
Special to SeeingBlack.com

A string of lights illuminate the night sky over the rural, 100-mile stretch between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Louisiana. During the day, these lights give way to clouds of smoke that rise from the giant mechanical structures that dot the area's landscape. The structures belong to 138 companies that comprise a virtually who's who of the petrochemical industry: Texaco, Borden, Occidental Chemical, Kaiser Aluminum, Chevron, IMC-Agrico, Dow, Dupont to name a few.

[Sabriel]

1. Next up: "Poisonous Po-Boys" and "Saline Sazerac" n/t

[NoPasaran]

2. A similar disaster in New England

Would be called "Toxic Chowdah"

[unrepuke]

5. May give inspiration to surviving eateries around...

Toxic Menudo - So. Calif.

Toxic Boullabaise - Quebec

Toxic Borscht, etc., etc.

:7

Many Tshirts will be sold:

"I had the TG and lived!"

[Hobarticus]

3. Yet another sophomoric joke to make light of a pending disaster...

"The flood waters are expected to be highly toxic. We're calling it 'toxic gumbo', because it's in New Orleans, and they eat lots of gumbo. Get it? Ain't we cute?"

Fucking barf.

[underpants]

4. Real cute

Whoo boy watch as we paint everyone with a BROAD brush