{"id":2093,"date":"2010-07-01T03:05:23","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T10:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2093"},"modified":"2010-07-01T03:05:23","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T10:05:23","slug":"alex-makes-the-tragedy-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/01\/alex-makes-the-tragedy-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Makes the Tragedy Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hurricane Alex picked up strength before making landfall.  The projected effects are ugly.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"1alex\"<\/a> Hurricane Alex disrupted the BP oil spill clean-up effort in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday as the storm gathered strength and was expected to make landfall.<\/p>\n

US President Barack Obama declared a state of emergency in Texas as Alex strengthened into the first Atlantic hurricane of the season late Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Alex was far from the epicenter of the clean-up operation off the Louisiana coast, but churned up waves and strong winds that forced the suspension of oil skimming and booming operations off the coasts of Louisiana, Alabama and Florida<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Two vessels continued to capture oil gushing from an undersea well 50 miles (80 kilometers) off Louisiana, where the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon rig exploded ten weeks ago sparking the worst environmental disaster in US history.<\/p>\n

Waves at the site were up to seven feet (two meters) high, a Coast Guard spokesman told AFP.<\/p>\n

Coupled with winds of up to 22 knots it made it too rough for crews to deploy a third vessel, the Helix Producer, that was set to nearly double the capacity of BP’s containment system.<\/p>\n

The current containment system is capturing nearly 25,000 of the estimated 30,000 to 60,000 barrels of crude spewing out of the ruptured well every day.<\/p>\n

The rough seas have also shifted parts of the slick closer to sensitive areas in Florida and Louisiana, and could also push the oil deeper into fragile coastal wetlands<\/strong>… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Keith Olbermann featured conservationist, John Walthen, who brought this home in a way that hits home.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

I thought I was getting so used to the daily horror from GOP gusher that I was becoming jaded, but this prompted me to break down and cry.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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