Putting the Oil Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico Into Geographic Perspective

If you want further evidence of just how big the oil catastrophe is in the Gulf of Mexico (I refuse to call it a "spill"), take a look at this amazing visualization using a Google Earth API created by Paul Radacher called "How big is the Deepwater Horizon oil spill?"  Click on each of the cities to get a perspective of the area involved. Imagine oil covering all of the Washington DC, flowing south into the Potomac and spreading all the way into Delaware. Incomprehensible! Type in your town, and see what you see. The spill covers all of my home county in New York and each of the adjacent counties.

Thanks for the tweet, ogleearth.