I guess the BP technical geeks must be feeling pretty desperate by this point. (Probably well before this point, if I know engineers.) No matter what they’ve shoved at the leak, or crammed down it, it just keeps chomping it all down.
The thing behaves like a rampant belly fat burner wreaking havoc at a gluttony convention. (Okay, so that’s pretty lame, but you get the point.) I just saw a FoxNews story online citing a Louisiana newspaper that says BP is getting ready to announce that the “top kill” effort, which looked so promising just yesterday, is a failure.
The BP people are getting ready to make another try at some effort that failed earlier. But the story now seems to be, in all truth, that the auxiliary wells being drilled to intersect the broken one may be the ultimate solution — but, of course, those are a few months away.
May God help the Gulf and may God help us all!