Alright, it's time for a new blog! Woohoo! The Tuckgraph Show is being pre-empted tonight, because of breaking news.

Hopefully we'll have a new Tuckgraph Show soon. The tomatoes have been planted (or hung), and the peppers just might steal the show! :) But we have some other matters to address.

Last week, on Tuesday, this oil rig off the coast of Louisiana blew a gasket. The platform was about the size of two football fields! Yes, I speak in the past tense.

After two days of spewing fire like a mini volcano, the entire rig fell into the ocean. It was a deep oil rig, meaning the oil it was extracting was 5.000 feet below the falling platform. Eleven people were lost in the blast. The rig fell into the ocean on Thursday, globally known as Earth Day!

At first, they said no oil was "spilling." Then they said there were a couple of leaks, and there were 4,200 gallons of oil being released from the accident at the bottom of the ocean.

I thought that was quite a precise number! Till I googled out that a barrel of oil holds 42 gallons. So it's a thousand barrels. Still no big deal, in spin parlance.

Then there was a disagreement!
The Coast Guard held a news conference, saying there was more like 5,000 barrels a day leaking from this monstrosity 5,000 feet below the surface of the ocean, and we are in a world of hurt. That means... over 200,00 gallons a day! Assuming their new estimates are accurate. Hopefully more accurate than their original estimates.

The oil should be reaching the Louisiana marshes sometime tonight. Within a day or so, it will reach the beaches I travel every day. And my life will change for... ever.

I could have posted some pics for this blog, but the subject is just too depressing. I hope you understand. It will be more entertaining next time! Life goes on.

In their best case scenarios, they say they can stop the oil gushing from the ocean's floor in a few months. There's so much I could say, but I'll save it for now.

On the bright side, Miss Priss is comfortable, and the garden is coming along. Always, always have a bright side.

TG