Gulf coast oil spill

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble

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.

A nice infographic in the Post today said that if a hurricane hit, the recovery effort could be suspended for as much as two weeks as they break the equipment down, wait it out, and then set it up again. It said that all the wave action would accelerate the breaking up of the oil. And it said that depending on if the center of the storm was to the West or East of the slick, it would either push the oil in to land or blow it back out to sea, respectively.

So it's a mixed bag.