I knew a tropical cyclone in the Gulf of Mexico would wreak havoc on the oil cleanup and the effort to seal the wild well. I didn’t realize it meant they might have to reopen the cap and let oil resume coursing into the sea: “Worse yet, retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said foul weather could require reopening the cap that has contained the oil for nearly a week, allowing oil to gush into the sea again for days while engineers wait out the storm.”
Here’s the projected path of the storm that is now a tropical depression in the Caribbean Sea southeast of Florida:
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