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For those of you who don’t already know–58,000 gallons of oil spilled into the bay on Wednesday when a cargo ship collided with a tower of the Bay Bridge. The extent of the spill was previously thought to have been minor. Now, people are slowly starting to freak out. City of Berkeley spokeswoman Mary Kay Clunies-Ross declared the weekend closure of the Berkeley Marina yesterday.
Clunies-Ross said boats are not being allowed in or out of the marina and residents and visitors are being warned by the city’s Environmental Health Division that the shoreline is contaminated and they should keep people and pets away from the beaches and the water.
Though Shakira thinks rolling around in black goo is hot, Clunies-Ross says it’s not. It’s not like anyone was going to be frolicking on the marina during this dismally rainy weekend anyway.
Even the Governator is freaking out. On Friday, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared yet another a state of emergency. We can’t even count how many of these he’s had to declare in the past year–from the MacArthur Maze meltdown to the Southern California wildfires to Wednesday’s oil spill. OK, so maybe he’s only declared it three times. What’s the fourth going to be, the Big One? Knock on wood.
At times, living in California feels like one big game of Sim City. Someone disable the “disaster” option, please. And while you’re at it, maybe you could turn off the “protests” and “football loss” features, too. Thanks!
Spill forces Berkeley Marina closure [The Examiner]
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