200,000 Gallons A Day

[lizbud]

They've been taking some of the turtle eggs to NASA to see if they can save them. Not sure what they can do but sure home they can do something.

What is this day 78 now? Fix the darn thing already!!!

Yeah, I read about that. They say they don't know if it will work because
the hatchings will instinctly want to go back to their nesting area & the water there is deadly for them.What a mess we humans have made.

[kokopup]

All of the Gulf coast states are effected now. Once the Gulf stream picks up on the oil it will impact most every coastal state on the east coast, plus Nova Scotia ,Canada, then we can expect it to effect Norway and the British isles by this time next year. The recirculating currents from West Africa will bring it back again with one of the tropical waves next fall. This spill will change the world as we knew it. BP does not have enough money to withstand the economic fallout that this spill will bring.

[lizbud]

They got the oil stopped. It's only temporary
and they need to monitor the pressure readings for days yet, but it feels
like some progress has finally been made.

[RICHARD]

Now what?

[momoffuzzyfaces]

They got the oil stopped. It's only temporary
and they need to monitor the pressure readings for days yet, but it feels
like some progress has finally been made.

I sure pray that this stops it until the can seal it completly. If it only holds!!!

[Laura's Babies]

Now what?

Now we sit and wait with a heart full of hope and PRAY HARD that the pressure stays where it should and this works until they can kill that thing permanently! Every day it was gushing, my heart sank lower and lower. I have done more praying since this thing started than I have ever done in all my life. My heart broke when I saw the beautiful beaches with oil on them, can't tell you how many times I have cried over this whole thing.

This could happen again anytime, anyplace, by any oil company and I just hope they have learned enough from this/or will learn from this and all the mistakes made so they can take action sooner to protect the shores, wild life and our earth.

kokopup wrote-All of the Gulf coast states are effected now. Once the Gulf stream picks up on the oil it will impact most every coastal state on the east coast, plus Nova Scotia ,Canada, then we can expect it to effect Norway and the British isles by this time next year. The recirculating currents from West Africa will bring it back again with one of the tropical waves next fall. This spill will change the world as we knew it. BP does not have enough money to withstand the economic fallout that this spill will bring.

I have said this almost since day 1. I have always said this will go global and while BP has always said they would take care of it financially and continue to run ads here on TV saying they will make it right for those who have lost their livelihoods, they are making it more and more difficult for people to file claims and are paying fewer of them and in lesser amounts $$ wise..

Those people down there make their living for the whole year in the few months they were able to work, there isn't any way they can give those people enough money to live as they did for the whole year. Many of them are going to end up loosing everything. Business everywhere are being effected since seafood is what their business depended on.

And that is just the gulf coast. These people are on TV crying saying they have NEVER had to get food stamps in their whole lives, now they have to get food stamps to eat. (that tells you how well BP is taking care of them! ) Once it is global the cost will just keep adding up.

Never forget that crude oil is abrasive and it has eaten away at that pipe all this time.. what that explosion did to the pipe, nobody knows... there are still so many things that can go haywire with this but this temporary stopping has given us hope... So lets not break open the Champagne yet.

[momoffuzzyfaces]

There was a report I think of the weather channel last night that even if the leak is stopped, it will take probably years to clean up. Instead of skimming the oil off then putting the dispersents on it, they did it the other way around. The dispersents caused millions of gallons of oil to sink to the bottom of the gulf where it can't be skimmed.

Mercy what a mess this entire thing is. Prayers for all who have lost their way of life and for all the creatures.

[kokopup]

What they aren't saying is that the pressure is not going high enough. The pressure from that well was around 70,000 psi and they are seeing less than 7000 psi. That means the oil is going somewhere else and it is only a matter of time before it breaks out somewhere else. I pray that I am wrong about it showing up again but that pressure is being vented somewhere.