Oil Spill In Your Town

Every day we're bombarded by news and images of the BP oil spill on the Gulf Coast... How much oil, how it's spreading, effects on aquatic life, clean-up efforts, cost, etc., yet we really have no way of putting into perspective the extent of this oil spill and the mass destruction it's causing. Here's something that will help.

To put the sheer size of the BP oil spill into perspective, someone has created a program to let you measure it against the land mass surrounding your home town. Visit Visualizing The BP Oil Disaster to see the comparison. Enter your city, and state in the location box on the top of the page, then click, "Move The Spill".

Scary!