Raining Oil In Louisiana? (VIDEO)

I think we are missing the forest for the trees. The only importance this video has is reminding us how poorly we execute our role as stewards of the Earth. Humanity's legacy will be that they didn't care enough about their legacy to preserve it.

Oh, the hurricanes are going to be fun this year.

I live in New Orleans and can definitely say that it has been raining most days here lately, and I haven't noticed any oily sheen in the puddles at all. Still, hurricane season is not too far away and I wonder what effect, if any, we'll see from that should we get any major storms.

Whether this is truly oil from the spill or not, hurricane season is nearing and, due to our lack of respect for the ecosystem, it has the possibility of being just as bad as it has been in the last 10 years or so. Oil is likely going to end up covering a lot of land.

Please. This is ridiculous rumor mongering and should not be presented as news.

Motor oil on road causes oily looking first rains all across the dry west at the beginning of every rainy season.

There is a piss easy test that can be performed to check this. But apparently the yokels that have been posting the videos don't have the intelligence to do this: set out a cup to fill with rain water. Does the cup have oil in it? Done.

I can do science, isn't it hard?

How do we Distill Crude oil if it doesn't evaporate?

It just occurred to me how sick many of you are. You keep ranting about a hurricane hitting us like it's a foregone conclusion and you're getting some sadistic rush out of that possibility. Do you want to see our city destroyed? Is that it? Will that satisfy your fear mongering and paranoia, or will you long for an earthquake in L.A., or Tsunami in Seattle?

Many of you seem to be sudden experts on meteorology, oceanography, chemistry, geophysics, and most importantly...the authenticity of journalistic endeavors based on a YouTube video.

Why don't you guys just rent the movie 2012 and masturbate all day, that may be healthier for you.

First, check the surrounding trees for oily film on there branches and leaves. IF... its found here, then lets hope it got there by a water spout and not by entering the evaporation cycle.

So to settle the dispute why don't they just collect some rain drops in containers and have it tested?

Not yet oily rain, just like Pensacola last week...not yet. Today fiction becomes fact as the crude washes up 2 months later. Since this has been going on for 2 months already, no one has any idea what horror the next 2 months will bring, but its on the way...of that you can be sure.

When the streets of New Orleans are slick with the terror waiting in the gulf, then there will be no arguments, and everyone will want Obama to save them. It will be worse than 9/11, and worse than WWII. No president can stop what awaits the people of the gulf, and the entire eastern coast of the United States. We have unleashed the Hand of God, and there is nothing to be done but pray that He will be merciful and men will learn to respect that which they have inheritted.

The weather, and only the weather, will decide how this battle is fought. The people at NOAA and NASA have been particularly disappointing in their ability and determination to give the American people independent data as the truth of what is happening physically and meteorogically with respect to the oil movement and patterns. They have the technology, and there is information that they are not providing the public. That is unacceptable and irresponsible, given that more and more communities will wake up to find oil on their beaches, on their streets, and hopefully not in their food.

There are volatile compounds in the "oil" that will evaporate into the air and will be in the rain that falls. These are things like benzene and other polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons that will be easily measurable in the air. They will be slowly oxidized, they can form polymers with the UV light from the sun- all kinds of chemistry is going to be going on out there with this stuff for a long time. Try not to get too much on your skin or in your lungs- not good for you.

I am skeptical.

i live in new orleans. it is not, nor has it ever been reported, raining oil ANYWHERE in louisiana...