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

[daylyn.livejournal.com]

Yeah, BP spill really is the important story there. I think that BP/the government/news agencies think that if the spill just goes on long enough, we'll be so used to it that we won't care about the bloody ecological DISASTER that it caused/is causing.

And an earthquake in DC... um... WTF??? Earthquakes are bad enough in places you expect them to occur. But DC? Not so much.

[eanja]

There was just an 5.5 earthquake in Toronto (1:45). Could you possibly have felt that all the way there? Several local people have posted feeling tremors. I didn't notice anything, but I'm in a basement, or maybe just unobservant (but noone else here noticed it either.)

[fabrisse.livejournal.com]

That maybe it. I'm on the top floor, and I certainly wasn't the only one who noticed it. Several of us were made dizzy by it. However, there was no damage. I'd be surprised if what we felt was much over a 2.

I'll be interested to see if we have any reporting on it.

[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.

[eanja]

Huffington post has a little map where people are reporting where they felt it- I'm sure there are other sources, that was just the first thing that came up on google.

[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.

[riverfox.livejournal.com]

*nods slowly in disgust*

Those assholes are going to wreck the planet. This is going to be a cascade effect that will last a 100 years and they're too bloody arrogant and cowardly to accept it.

[riverfox.livejournal.com]

I didn't feel the quake, but I heard about it soon after. I was surprised you felt it. I'd only heard that only people as far down as Conn could feel it. Just goes to show how the coastline is connected in one way or another.