Coast Guard Admiral Sees Game Changer as Oil Awaits Atlantic Hurricanes
June 10th, 2010Via: Bloomberg:
Coast Guard Rear Admiral Mary E. Landry was up early on Saturday, April 24, preparing to brief news reporters on the deadly explosion at the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig when BP Plc called with bad news: The well was leaking oil into the Gulf of Mexico, 5,000 feet below the surface.
She dashed off an e-mail to inform several admirals about the leak that was destined to become the biggest offshore oil spill in U.S. history. In the subject line she typed, “GAME CHANGER.”
After serving 42 days as the coordinator of the U.S. government’s response to the undersea gusher, Landry is now preoccupied with planning for a second potential game-changing event: the Atlantic hurricane season that began June 1. The government forecasts more storms than normal, increasing the risk of delays and complications in a response effort already pockmarked with failures.
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“This adds a new dimension of complexity that nobody anticipated,” said Landry, 53, head of the Coast Guard’s Eighth District, a command that spans 26 states and is located in New Orleans.
A direct hit by a hurricane could spread more widely an oil spill that has already surpassed the Exxon Valdez in volume and was described by President Barack Obama as “the worst environmental disaster of its kind in our nation’s history.”
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A category III hurricane with winds between 111 and 130 miles per hour could blow coastal water as much as 12 feet above normal, according to a Coast Guard hurricane readiness plan.
Such storm surges “may carry oil into the coastline and inland as far as the surge reaches,” according to an information sheet from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which forecasts weather in addition to other duties. NOAA predicts a 70 percent chance that 14 to 23 named storms, including as many as seven major hurricanes, will form in the Atlantic in the next six months. The seasonal average is 11 named storms and two major hurricanes.
While the agency doesn’t predict the likelihood of storms in the Gulf, all active hurricane seasons have produced at least one named storm there. In half the busy hurricane seasons on record, at least one major storm has hit the Gulf in June or July.
Unpredictable Situation
Timing is crucial. BP isn’t slated to finish drilling a relief well aimed at permanently ending the leak until August at the soonest. Oceanographers are loath to predict what might happen if a hurricane hit the spill.
“We’ve never been in this situation before,” said Robert H. Weisberg, a professor of oceanography at the University of South Florida at St. Petersburg. “If anyone tells you they know what’s going to happen, they’re full of crap.”
I can’t remember one thing from another these days, sunspots on the sun, Comet MaNaught coming, financial world crashing.
Whatever. Bring it on universe.
I read this today and passed it on to friends.
http://www.lorian.org/davidspage.html#gpm1_
My sister Cindy and I used to study David Spangler as part of our Pathwork. Man did they grow some awesome cabbages by using probably psychedilc compost and talking to the plants.
Anyways friends,I touched the Gulf of Mexico last week and wow. I got surrounded by my dearly departed family. Wasn’t a message of doom at all. Just a lot of energy floating around out there. Wow. To say the least.
I guess I want to say I am not afraid. Anymore. Its kind of a relief.
I figure those Mayan’s who were astrologer’s(HAD TO BE) knew where the planets would be and what it meant when they were in these places in time. It’s not the end of the world by any means.
If you are reading Cryptogon, I think you know the change is coming, and its not going to be easy for many humans in the first world. Those who think they are SPECIAL and should be allowed to watch TV as much as they want to and drive, drive,drive, are going to be the ones hit hardest, and being such assholes, they are going to be a thorn. But we know peole can always be educated. Whatever it takes.
The US of A is such a juvenile delinquent (young country). I hope it is only the US that is impacted by the oil spill.
I am so sorry world, if my country’s blindsided greediness ends up hurting you.
There is hope in Dr. Emoto
http://www.masaru-emoto.net/english/e_ome_home.html
Go there to see what he has learned about water.
Amazing.
Be good to yourselves, and if you have intentions for the oil spill outcome, these nights in the dark before the New Moon this weekend are most auspicious. And thank you in advance if you can send kimd prayers our way.
OM and Namaste
You brought back some memories, Eileen! After reading about Findhorn when I was a young teenager I wrote to David @ Findhorn, c. 1980, and was pleasantly surprised to receive a friendly and considered response from him.