06/25/10
In the Gulf tonight,
now, a tropical hot spot:
a storm just developing,
so new it has no name.
But everyone involved in the spill
is watching the clot
because if it grows
and starts to move,
ships have to flee, the cap
on the oil well has to be lifted.
It's still unclear
where the system is heading
but were it to
form into a tropical storm,
it would be called Alex, the first
named storm of the season.
And these trajectories show
it could make a beeline
for the Gulf.
If it does, hundreds of miles
of boom could be wrecked.
And Diane, if that storm
does hit this area,
they would have to lift
all those ships.
And a roundtrip to
get them out into safety
and then back over to that spill
would take 10 days.
In that time,
up to 20 million gallons of oil
could spill again
into the Gulf of Mexico.
メキシコ湾の天候に注目が集まる。
嵐が発生し今まさに発達している。
原油流出の関係者は―
嵐が直撃すると
作業を中断することになる。
進路はまだ不明だが―
勢力を増せば
この夏初めて名前が付く嵐となる。
もし被災地へまっすぐに向かうと―
オイルフェンスが壊れる可能性も
直撃の場合には
作業船をみな退避させる。
一度避難すると現場に戻るまで
10日間かかり―
その間に最大2,000万ガロンの
原油が流出する。
