My aunt’s family is planning to spend spring break on Myrtle Beach. She found a 7 bedroom, 7.5 bath rental across the street from the ocean. This place is really nice. 2 level decks on both the front and rear of the house offering views of the ocean and the marsh behind. The dining area seats 16. The living room has a convertible bed. Some of the bedrooms have more than one bed. The property also has a small pool. This is definitely a great place for their big family. I toured the property with them so I could take photos and send them to the rental participants.
Above: View from the front of the house on the 3rd floor balcony.
Above: Front of the house.
Above: One of the 7 bedrooms.
Above: Living room. By the way, there’s also an elevator.
Above: Dining room.
Above: Large kitchen has 2 microwaves and 2 coffee makers.
Above: View of the marsh (in the back) from the 3rd floor balcony.
They’re gonna have a lot of fun!
Mom and I said our farewells to Anne & Bob.
During my drive to and from Myrtle Beach, I’m noticing the BP gas stations are empty or only have a few customers as compared to surrounding stations. I made an effort not to give BP my business. Aside from BP corporate, who else am I hurting? The franchise owner? Employees who are probably already struggling? Vendors who depend on those stores for their beer (or chips or soda) route commission? I felt guilty. Who is getting hurt more so? Who am I hurting?
I don’t watch/read/listen to the news often enough to know the FULL story of this oil spill. From what I’ve read or conversations with others, it would seem as though it was BP’s unfortunate luck because it could have happened to any of the other oil companies. I hear that the other oil companies also lack the disaster planning. Is it the fault of the company that created the failed safety cut off systems?
I don’t ask for feedback often, but what do you think?
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Holy cow- that house is AMAZING! I shudder to think what it must cost to rent it... but split it up enough ways... WOW!!
ReplyDeleteThe oil spill thing... whew. From NPR:
But in the past few days Hayward has insisted that the blame for the accident and for the deaths of the 11 workers lies not with BP but with the contractor it hired to operate the drilling rig — Transocean.
"The real issue is the failure of the safety equipment, the critical safety equipment called the blowout preventer," Hayward says. "That is a piece of equipment owned and operated by Transocean, maintained by Transocean. They are absolutely accountable for its safety and reliability."
The blowout preventer, however, was not manufactured by Transocean but by a third company, Cameron, which specializes in this kind of highly complex deep-water-drilling equipment.
If Hayward's comments are an attempt to kick accountability away from BP management, it is an echo of the legal strategy the company adopted in the Texas City refinery case. Those legal actions ended with BP paying out over $1 billion in claims.
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Working in an industry that is focused on safety... and working in a job where I deal with quality issues, service providers, and so on... I feel that BP is still ultimately responsible. They hired the contracted company. There should have been something in place from BP on that rig that ensured the contracted company was doing the job properly. Trying to push the blam eon that company by saying "Well, we don't do that work and we don't own or maintain that equipment and we didn't make that equipment." Well, those are just excuses. BP made the decision to work with Transocean. When you make a choice, you take whatever the consequences are. Doesn't mean Transocean doesn't bear responsibility as well- of course they do. But BP needs to stop pointing the finger.
I think things would have been much more easily solved if the oil drilling were allowed closer to shore in shallower water. Fixing a problem two miles down on the ocean floor ain't easy. The whole thing is a tragedy. Makes Exxon's Valdez spill seem like nothing. Sad!
ReplyDeleteOn the bright side... if the oil doesn't make it to Myrtle Beach, I'd say that's going to be one fun party house!
Please view the video I recently posted on my blog regarding the oil spill....stuff you won't likely hear on tv. We won't use BP again.
ReplyDelete- Mary Ann
Imagine, for $500,000 cheapness, this is what happened.
ReplyDeleteThanks Mary Ann
What a great beach house! Fun times ahead!
ReplyDeleteThe oil spill is a major disaster. In Tampa here they are preparing for the possibility of it coming ashore. But at this moment, it does not seem it will hit here. But the bad news is, this major tourist industry is getting hit very hard. People are canceling vacation plans here, in droves. The West coast of Florida almost down to Ft. Myers, has been declared a disaster zone. But for now, it appears it may get caught up in currents that will cause it to bypass us, but may end up going down to the keys, and carried around Florida and may end up on beaches on the East coast of Florida. Weird....
ReplyDeleteKen from Tampa
Just what the economy needs, people canceling their spending.
ReplyDeleteTim says he commented but where did it go? Testing....
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