It has now been 46 days since the start of one of the worlds worst natural disasters. The oil continues to spill out into the Gulf.
BP now has a plan to siphon the oil from the well and bring it to the top of the Gulf waters. Then they will try to get it to flow onto another drill ship called Discover Enterprise.
They already started doing this on Friday. BP is to shut 4 of the vents on the top of the cap which is allowing the oil to leak out into the Gulf. They are hoping if they close off these 4 vents that the flow will be cut back.
If the procedure is going to be successful or not was to be determined later on Friday.
President Obama once again visited the Gulf Coast on Friday to view the extinct of the damage. It has been said the he was “furious at this entire situation.”
Obama didn’t talk a lot about the efforts to cap off the well, but he did relay to the news that, “it does appear that the cap — at least for now — is holding.” He also said that it is, “way too early to be optimistic.” We could possible know something in the next 24 to 48 hours according to Obama on Friday. That means we could possibly be hearing good news anytime, or I could have missed the announcement.
I do hope we hear that the oil is now being contained and will be capped.
Our wildlife have suffered and our beaches have balls of tar the size of silver dollars on them in Pensacola, Florida.
The oil has already become a threat to Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Florida is next.
It was possible that the oil will reach Destin Florida by Saturday afternoon.
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They are saying that the siphoning of the oil is working More oil is being removed from the water now then before but it is still not enough. The cap is working.
The beaches will continue to have oil from the spill coming in until August.
Things will hopefully get better soon.