Gulf coast oil spill

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Originally Posted by glatt

I'm not worried about a hurricane. worst case scenario is that they have to remove the cap entirely and leave the area for several days while the hurricane passes through. That will increase the spill for those days, which is bad, but it's not like they are collecting all the oil spilling out anyway.

I thought the danger of a hurricane in the area was not to the cleanup crew themselves, but rather that the hurricane would basically blow all that surface oil inland, pouring sludge-rain on everything.