Weather Expected to Make Matters Worse After Oil Spill

There's more bad news for Louisiana as an oil spill oozes its way to the state's wetlands.

Friday, April 30th 2010, 10:11 am

By: News 9


Associated Press

MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER -- There's more bad news for Louisiana as an oil spill oozes its way to the state's wetlands.

The National Weather Service predicts winds, high tides and waves this weekend could push oil deep into the inlets, ponds and lakes that line southeast Louisiana.

Thunderstorms are expected today with seas of 6 to 7 feet pushing tides several feet above normal toward the coast. A federal wildlife official says the high waves could wash over booms that are strung out just offshore to stop the oil.

A Coast Guard official tells ABC that the weather will prevent crews from skimming oil from the surface or burning it off for the next couple of days.

The slick caused by an explosion at an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico could become the nation's worst environmental disaster in decades.

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