The BP man on the scene gave a briefing earlier and said that the color and velocity of the flow would fluctuate and could not be used as a determing factor in gauging the success or failure of the topkill effort. They will know within 24 hours if it worked.
Thankfully, it looks like the weather has been cooperating. We need to pray that it continues.
I know what the BP PR folks have said, and I am praying for success in stopping this catastrophe.
I am worried, however. I used to trust, but am now too old and jaded by the events of the past few decades to assume the best of media people and government officials. You know, that “fool me once” saying?
If I blame anyone in this mess, I blame the environmentalists first, and us second, for not fighting harder against them and our “electeds”. We probably share some of the blame, too, for craving all the goodies of modern civilization