Oil Spill Update: Oil Slick Enters Mississippi Sound

It looks as though the Mis­sis­sippi state waters are now seri­ously threat­ened by the oil spill.  Accord­ing to NOAA, pre­vail­ing winds seem to be push­ing the oil more toward the bar­rier islands than before, and some slicks have already moved into the Mis­sis­sippi Sound:

A large patch of oil oozed into Mis­sis­sippi Sound, the fer­tile waters between the bar­rier islands and main­land of a state that has mostly been spared.

The news came as a cap col­lect­ing oil from the well was back in place after a deep-sea robot bumped it and engi­neers con­cerned about escap­ing gas removed it for about 10 hours Wednesday.

This is ter­ri­ble news, con­sid­er­ing that the shrimp­ing and fish­ing that could be done was in state waters, and now even that ecosys­tem is seri­ously threatened.

Here’s the lat­est slick fore­cast from NOAA:

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