Bloody Hell!

[fabrisse]

A few minutes ago the Breaking News Item at the top of the Washington Post's page was that the cap on the Gulf Leak had needed to be removed due to an accident. The item has been replaced with an announcement for President Obama's live discussion in half an hour about General McChrystal. The lede was still smaller than the one underneath it announcing that the US will be moving up in the World Cup.

I don't know about you, but I think the Gulf thing is the most important.

Found the AP article and include the full text. The time stamp is 12:48 EDT.

NEW ORLEANS -- The Coast Guard says BP has been forced to remove a cap that was containing some of the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico.

Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen says an underwater robot bumped into the venting system. That sent gas rising through vent that carries warm water down to prevent ice-like crystals from forming in the cap.

Allen says the cap has been removed and crews are checking to see if crystals have formed before putting it back on. In the meantime, a different system is still burning oil on the surface.

Before the problem with the containment cap, it had collected about 700,000 gallons of oil in the previous 24 hours. Another 438,000 gallons was burned.

The current worst-case estimate of what's spewing into the Gulf is about 2.5 million gallons a day.



ETA: I think we just had a long wave earthquake. The building shook for nearly a minute. (13:51 06/23/2010)

Comments

[fabrisse.livejournal.com]

The only place in the 48 contiguous states immune to earthquake is Florida. There's an East coast fault under Boston and New York which goes right down into, I think, Savannah. If it ever goes, the damage will be far worse than anything on the San Andreas because of the type of fault it is.

I try not to think about it. *G*

The BP thing makes me so angry.

[daylyn.livejournal.com]

The first place I ever experienced an earthquake was actually in New York, but it was just a teeny tiny thing. My first "real" quake was the Northridge quake in L.A. I think it was a 6.4 or something -- that was an adventure.

The damage on the East Coast would also be because of the types of structures that are out there. Nothing is built to eathquake code. The buildings wouldn't last in a big quake.

Not thinking about it is a good idea. *G* Unless you're writing a doomsday scenario fic. That would be cool too.

And BP makes me furious.