the 100% directionless thread

[lightsandsirens5]

I have so much stuff going on right now, I am getting to that point where you just want to crawl under a big rock and hide. Not fun.

 

[mct601]

Could you please start a new thread with this in NEWS or another section? It's really worth hearing about and I'd like to learn more from you without it getting buried in Mr. Directionless!..

Thanks

Was this sarcasm or sincerity? I cannot tell lol

I feel really bad for the poor folks working the relief drills.

Actually, drilling the wells? I don't. BP is doing a good job of keeping the attention off of them with the live ROV feeds and all the 'interesting' procedures they've been trying. The public is starting to remember the wells exist though, and they are starting to question them. The crews are doing a damn good job though. They are ahead of schedule.

Accidents do happen. But even when you screw up and call it an accident you still have the resposibility to stand up like a man and say "I screwed up and I will make it right" and then follow through. That fact is multiplied when it comes to a multi-billion dollar company whose actions have HUGE ramifications. I can live with the fact that they screwed up... what now? Their response has been lacking. The infrastucter to respond to disasters is non-existant. They have no clue what they are doing and they have lied to down play it all. Christ, it took them almost 2 months to even apologize. The fact that we are trying to hold them resposible and that the response is so piss poor is stupid... they should be holding themselves responsible and have the plans in place to mount some sort of disaster response in a more efficent and comprehenisve manner.

But, yes, the Media has it's own agenda... I just hope the response to this will be fast and effective in trying to relieve the stress that this section of the US has been seeing so much of in the last few years.

I agree completely, but they handled it the best way they KNEW. They were setting up booms at week 1 and had a ship already set out to drill the relief well. You have to understand the circumstances with which Deep Water Horizon was drilling was not your average rig. It was one of the deepest in the Gulf. The media isn't lying when they say the efforts to stop and clean this up is pushing man's abilities. But like I said, I do agree that the response to contain the oil was lackluster. My #1 complaint that will come to haunt us for a long time is the use of the dispersant. We now have barrels upon barrels of oil sitting in plumes under the ocean surface, and it will be a challenge, to say the least, to find it and clean it up. Most of it will end up on beaches with no warning. However, BP is digging deep into their pocket books. I never knew how much until I started seeing the clean up sites. Hell, my salary is indirectly coming from BP. They are doing two things right, right now 1) they are drilling the relief well, 2) they are funding the clean up costs. The problem is the contracts are being abused and people are not working efficiently, therefore all the money is going to waste.

Also, we can't just blame it on BP. It was a Transocean rig with Transocean and Halliburton employees manning it.

But, as I've said before, I'm not defending BP at all. I'm just saying what the news is saying is 70-80% speculation and deception. Its entirely a smear campaign on big oil. The government could easily help, but nothing outside of the Coast Guard is helping. BP is doing a lot more than what the media is making them out to do, there is just only so much you CAN do in this situation, and there is a lot more going on than whats being said. you won't hear about it much unless its ground breaking, for obvious reasons. It is literally almost a worst case scenario.




anyways, something funny to break the seriousness

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AAa0gd7ClM[/YOUTUBE]

 

[Shishkabob]

So, raves....they kill people.

 

[mct601]

So, raves....they kill people.

Does this mean you've had paperwork?

 

[ExpatMedic0]

Ok so I have been posting on this forum based out of the UK. Some of the UK poster seem to think many Americans are racist towards brits, and that we also blame the UK (not BP) as a government for the oil spill and that the queen of england herself should apologize... Feel free to read the post and my comments on it and let me know what you think. the BBC must be some serious BS propaganda?

I almost laughed when I read this, but many of these people are for real.... the post can be found here http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=673047&page=2

or you can give your 2 cents here and I will gladly post a link on there forum to this URL

 

[Trayos]

Ok so I have been posting on this forum based out of the UK. Some of the UK poster seem to think many Americans are racist towards brits, and that we also blame the UK (not BP) as a government for the oil spill and that the queen of england herself should apologize... Feel free to read the post and my comments on it and let me know what you think. the BBC must be some serious BS propaganda?

I almost laughed when I read this, but many of these people are for real.... the post can be found here http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=673047&page=2

or you can give your 2 cents here and I will gladly post a link on there forum to this URL

I will not comment on who to blame, as that would not solve the problem; we must identify it first.
What is happening now, is oil is being observed leaking around the pipe, meaning that the subsurface itself is losing its structural integrity. If the seafloor ruptures, we will find it much more difficult to contain it than even what we are experiencing now.
People talk of "oil tornados" and the ilk; this is not likely to occur. Right now volatile organic other then pure petroleum are being leaked from the ocean floor, such as benzene, tuolene, ethylbenzene, xylene and naphthalene. These are chemical compounds containing carbon bonds that readily vaporize in air.

http://www.ace.mmu.ac.uk/eae/air_quality/older/VOCs.html

Also worth noting is the massive amounts of methane being released, on the order of 2,900 cubic feet per barrel of oil released- or 5.8 million cubic feet per day, at current flow rate-
http://www.huliq.com/9990/methane-newest-bp-oil-spill-threat-gulf-mexico

Ladies and gentlemen, we are in the midst of a serious natural disaster, rivaling Three Mile Island, and we will not solve it by pointing fingers and
whining. We face the very real possibility of not only damage to our economic resources, but a low-concentration, widespread chemical poisoning of citizens. I can only hope that this does not become my generations responsibility.

On a happier note, doing anything for fathers day?

 

[Shishkabob]

Does this mean you've had paperwork?

I had paperwork regardless for taking multiple ODs against their will physically restrained.



Though this guy didn't crash till just after we moved him to the hospital bed.

 

[8jimi8]

I had paperwork regardless for taking multiple ODs against their will physically restrained.



Though this guy didn't crash till just after we moved him to the hospital bed.

presentation?

 

[lightsandsirens5]

I had paperwork regardless for taking multiple ODs against their will physically restrained.



Though this guy didn't crash till just after we moved him to the hospital bed.

So like these people had a rave and schedualed a stanby amb for it? Ummm......I may be thinking of something different, but isn't a rave a big party where people get together and basically drown in drugs? How did they get an amb for that without LE finding out?

 

[foxfire]

oh man that is terrible.

belayer drop her?

kinda, My friends and I don't like to dawdle when we come down off a wall, but slow down when we are in the bottom half. To avoid this kind of thing. the belayer did not pay enough attention to slow her down as she was nearing the ground. I blame it on lack of experience, the belayer was a newbie at rappeling and rock climbing stuff. I never allow some one new to belay for me.

Good news though, She is wearing a brace of some sort (don't know what type), and was able to be up and walk a little bit today. But is still in a world of pain.

 

[Shishkabob]

So like these people had a rave and schedualed a stanby amb for it? Ummm......I may be thinking of something different, but isn't a rave a big party where people get together and basically drown in drugs? How did they get an amb for that without LE finding out?

Raves aren't illegal in the least bit..its what some people do there that's illegal.

We worked the "Electric Daisy" which is one of the biggest raves in the nation, they expected over 12000.. We had PD there, us doing medical (2 medics, 4 emts) and some Dallas fire there if we got overwhelmed.


Jimi, can't type out the while thing on my phone so I'll update you on it tomorrow.

 

[Mountain Res-Q]

kinda, My friends and I don't like to dawdle when we come down off a wall, but slow down when we are in the bottom half. To avoid this kind of thing. the belayer did not pay enough attention to slow her down as she was nearing the ground. I blame it on lack of experience, the belayer was a newbie at rappeling and rock climbing stuff. I never allow some one new to belay for me.

Good news though, She is wearing a brace of some sort (don't know what type), and was able to be up and walk a little bit today. But is still in a world of pain.

Never put your safety in the hands of someone you don't completely trust. From a rescue standpoint, you need to have someone as focused and knowledgeable as yourself at the other end of the rope. Thankfully, she were in a more controlled environment and it sounds like the damage is not as bad as it could have been; although a fall off a wall is never a painless experience.

 

[Shishkabob]

Ok Jimi---


Long story short--- found an unconscious male at the back of one of the rooms after the rave ended, checked a carotid and got 160. Quickly loaded him up and got enroute to the level II (2 minutes away). BP of 150/82, bgl of 111.

As soon as we put him on the bed they RSId him with sux and etomidate. They did a rectal and foley temp and got 108.8.


He went in to Vtach shortly after, they tried a paracordial thump, then did a quick shock, and he went back in to the 160s. BP now 60/30. We had 2 16g IVs, and we infused 6 liters of NS as fast as we could and BP still didn't rise.


As we left (we were conscripted to help even with 6 nurses) the doc had just finished emergency surgery to, from what I could gather, put a line in his thorax to hook a cooling machine up to.




Trying to find a way back to the hospital to find out his status.

 

[adamjh3]

One shift in and my company decided they want me full time. I guess I did something right, haha

 

[exodus]

One shift in and my company decided they want me full time. I guess I did something right, haha

Which one?

 

[TransportJockey]

Just had my interview for Pridemark today. I think it went well

 

[adamjh3]

Priority One

 

[EMT11KDL]

anyone know if there is any agencies that are bigging a testing period in the NORTHWEST? for Fire or EMS

 

[Johnny_B_Good]

...on to something COMPLETELY different. "Breaking Bad" anyone? Season 3 finale?

 

[TransportJockey]

My grandmother is in the hospital... they're saying she won't last past this evening. And hteres nothing I can do I don't think I've felt this helpless. And I'm under orders from the parental units to not try and make it down there (8 hours south).