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Might go Cat 5!
Per @NHC_Atlantic: 700 AM CDT Key Messages for #Ida: Extremely life-threatening storm surge & catastrophic wind damage are imminent where core of #Ida moves onshore in next few hours
#Hurricane 🌀 #Ida #HurricaneIda #Louisiana #GulfCoast
Per @NHC_Atlantic: 700 AM CDT Key Messages for #Ida: Extremely life-threatening storm surge & catastrophic wind damage are imminent where core of #Ida moves onshore in next few hours
#Hurricane 🌀 #Ida #HurricaneIda #Louisiana #GulfCoast
9:20pm to 5:20am, #Hurricane 🌀 #Ida eye stabilizes & intensifies further just before landfall… winds topping 150 mph. Going to be devastating for those in and just east of eyewall. #HurricaneIda #Louisiana #GulfCoast #HurricaneKatrina 16 yrs ago today
i have some truths that need to be exposed but with the censorship i will be deleted. if my reach is not enough to get the info out. THIS IS BUISNESS. please share this post and and click the ring bell #qanon #gulfoilspill #obamagate
deep horizion was the well rig in the gulf of mexico who had a blowout and caused a natural disaster in the #gulfofmexico. the initial accident was just that, an accident. sort of. they had a BOP. (blow out preventer) at 5000 feet under the gulf seas.
(2). the BOP had been used on the last well hole they had drilled trying to tap the same pocket of oil. on that hole they had a blowout and the BOP worked to sever the the drill pipe and cap the well. by design the BOP is reusable and is assigned to the drilling platform.
In this week’s #DWHStories, we cover the #DeepwaterHorizon oil spill response. Next week I will spend some time on the role of volunteers in the response, both official and unofficial. #oilspill #gulfofmexico #dwhoilspill Thread 1/
The coast was largely quiet in the week following the rig explosion. Initial official reports indicated that only a small amount of oil was leaking, and that the well would be contained in a short period of time, before causing extensive environmental damage.
The Coast Guard sent a Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) to the wellhead site to try to cap the well & determine whether the wellhead and/or the broken pipes were still leaking oil. Initial discharge estimates indicated that the well could be leaking approximately 1000 barrels a day.
Thread/ This week’s #dwhstories will focus on the explosion of the mobile drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, the cause of the disaster, and what has changed as a result of the spill from a regulatory/safety standpoint. Background:
In March 2008, BP paid $34M to the U.S. Govt. for an exclusive drilling lease in an area of the #GulfofMexico known as Mississippi Canyon 252. (Map Source: MMS)
The Macondo well, named after the town in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ “One Hundred Years of Solitude” would be the first exploratory well in the lease area, attempting to access a rich reservoir of oil 2.5 miles below the seabed.
