Posted on 07/21/2010 6:38:18 AM PDT by Hojczyk
There is a certain frustration in hearing some of the officials who act as spokesmen for the management team handling the spill from the Deepwater well in the Gulf of Mexico. Their evaluation of the situation is bound around a full collection and compilation of the existing evidence, a comprehensive and contemplative understanding through a scientific explanation of the causes of whatever anomalies and other behavior that is not following the model anticipated, and subsequently then working out the best steps forward and determining the potential benefits relative to alternative approaches.
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Huh? That is a mouthful!
Well, on the one hand, if they have had a week’s window to top kill the well, and they had to use 6 days convincing the government to let them do it, then government was a real problem.
On the other hand, government IS supposed to be a watchdog for those who have already proven they cannot be trusted. So it’s hard to fault the caution with BP at this point. I think it’s a bad thing, and wish they’d just let BP get the job done, but still....
Worse though is the government’s second-guessing and shutting down state attempts to protect themselves. Letting oil kill the sealife because you are afraid that a sand berm MIGHT kill the sealife is exactly why government can’t legislate disaster relief. They are great at dangers they have known from decades ago, and lousy at writing laws that allow people to use common sense.
Our whole system of government is based on people being left to their common sense, with government acting when people fail. But now we want government to force common sense on people.
JamesRWhite on July 21, 2010 - 3:25pm
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"With another opening in Port St. Joe last week, the Florida Panhandle now has four branch offices dedicated to providing coordinated and rapid oil spill response efforts to nearshore and inland waterway areas."
Lemmie see . . . oil hasn't been flowing into the gulf for over a week now - and here we are 90-something days into the spill, and the Obama administration is just NOW opening a "rapid response" office?
Good think the response was rapid . . . geeze . . .
Heads up on the ROV feeds. Oly Rov 1 is on a smoker coming form the sea bed. Very difficult to see. Lighting is low. They are a distance away. Coming from upper center of image. Plumes or clouds traveling up to the top of screen. Need to view in low lighting.
Also Boa Deep C2 showing some very unusual up and down current. Unusual for 1 mile down. Oly Rov 2 has intermittent clouds or plumes that move right to left. When it pans up they are more visible.
Well with a VP nicknamed “slow Joe”, just what should we expect.
Whoops. Large constant white wispy plumes from right to left in Oly ROV 1, is what I meant to say. Strange. Like a stationary camera along side a burning building with a right to left breeze.
You could see the smokers better on Oly ROV 1 earlier when I first noted it. They have been panning around a lot since then. By the time I remembered how to save a screen image in Firefox, it had gotten more difficult to see them. Right now the entire area is getting obscured with the discharge of multiple smokers. Oly ROV 2 is I believe showing some of the discharge from these smokers as clouds that move occasionally right to left. Oly Rov 2 is looking at the BOP assembly. Worse case would be they obscure the BOP and make work impossible. They needed to have the Top Kill and RW 1 ready to go when the Shut In was done. Apparently they only had one little over a week to work. That is a very strange pattern in the sea floor that Oly ROV 1 is showing right now. Keep an eye on those round depressions in the lower right corner. Were only two of them 20 - 30 minutes ago. Now three. My guess is, and it could be wrong because image quality now is much worse then this morning due to turbidity, but those depressions are actually smokers. Discharge moving down and slightly left. Need image enhancement to see them though. At any rate, shes a smoking. Expect visibility to get worse every hour. Just concentrate on visualizing smokers and you might get a grasp of what BP/Obama is seeing in high resolution.
They moved Oly 1 to a different spot now. Got to run. Will be back later. Gonna get interesting, is my guess.
Yeah. Something taint right. We shall eventually see what is going on. As you indicated some of the views are tough to distinguish just what changes on the sea floor. And the bandwidth I have to put up with is tough. Many of the individual ROV videos often look like still shots. Then minutes later one or more will show a few seconds of action. Sort of a pain in the tail.
You would not believe what I saw this morning at around 5am. Unbelievable. Might have been the first smokers breaking through. They were white sedimentary based smokers. They formed a long funnel plume over head. The ones now look gray.
BTW - If I see something that looks like a smoker, will ping you here or will at least ping the latest oil spill thread. And it is probably not correct to call them smokers, since we are not dealing with volcanic activity. They really are plumers, but that is not a word yet.
Good night. Will do now then time to crash for the day.
I see what you mean regarding the leaks. Nite.
Obama is screwing up royally...
And lexmark only has a 32 bit driver for the Pro805 printer I got at a special price,...and now I am meditating.
I can run it off of my laptop but that isn't what I wanted....ARGH!
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