Deja Vu all over again

[Cannon Shell]

So 30 years ago we had essentially the same thing happen and yet virtually noone recalls it happening? Does this mean that the ecological damage that is supposedly going to take "hundreds of years" to recover from is being overblown? I mean I don't see any of the oldtimers down there being interviewed saying this is the worst spill since 79. It seems like no one even remembers it.