the possibility of a storm approaching, a tropical storm, some of them were moved to nearly to tears and these are people who are accustomed to hardship and now maying facing the greatest threat to their livelihood ever and the last thing they need is oil coming ashore. someone comes in, we re going to catch hell. it will be dispersant all over the place. it s killing all the animals. i m totally disgusted. every home here on grand isle is on stilts. so a storm surge is not an issue. but obviously oil on the beaches would be. there are containment operations going on. you ve been pointing them out. how is the threat of a possible storm affecting those operations on the ground there? we know that they are collecting oil on the ground, on the water, on the beaches, in the marshes and out at the containment site as well. the latest figures that we ve received are about 25,000-barrels were collected on