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Tropical weather could worsen Gulf Coast woes
In this satellite image, oil spreads northeast from the leaking Deepwater Horizon well seen from NASA's Terra satellite on June 19, 2010.
(CNN) – Downtrodden Gulf Coast residents may soon have something besides the oil spill to worry about. But it's not really a "new" threat - it's what they fret about every summer: tropical weather.
There is a 70 percent chance that a weather system in the western Caribbean will better organize and form at least a tropical depression in the next 48 hours, the National Hurricane Center said Friday morning.
The tropical disturbance's rains have become more concentrated, surface air pressure is dropping and upper-level winds are becoming more conducive to storm development, said the hurricane center. An Air Force "hurricane hunter" plane is scheduled to head into the system Friday afternoon to determine if it has evolved into a tropical cyclone, with closed circulation around a center of low pressure.
Some forecasting models show that by early next week the system could head into the Gulf of Mexico, where it could disrupt the oil cleanup operations. Adm. Thad Allen, who's heading the federal cleanup operation, said on CNN's "American Morning" he'll have to redeploy people and equipment to safer areas 120 hours (five days) in advance of gale-force winds (at least 32 mph). Watch 
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Dead is dead, and it could get worse with a Hurricane? What measurement is being used here? More beaches fouled with toxic, poisonous and carcinogenic crude Oil? That'll happen regardless if a Hurricane pushes the 150 Million gallons of toxic crude Oil onto more beaches, marshes and delta's across the Gulf States. The land, seafloor, birds, mammals and sea-life are already heavily contaminated, poisoned and likely dieing, but it could get worse? Really?
The Republican politicians are so utterly corrupted by Big Oil, they could be seen as a Heroin addicts so hopelessly addicted to Heroin they'll gladly sell their family's heritage for another bag of Heroin no matter what that costs their family or neighbors.
Republican State and Federal politicians are already jumping up and down to continue deep sea ocean Oil drilling even as America struggles to survive the single largest disaster that America has ever experienced. Just like a Heroin addict missing their bag!
GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR OIL RIG SAFETY VIOLATIONS IN THE GULF! Who allowed BP to continue operating with all those safety violations because American citizens demand to know! We want to know everyone who was associated with this act of Political Terrorism (This is when a politician or Government Official allows a Corporation to operate in such a manor as to put the profit of a Corporation ahead of the welfare and safety of the average American citizen).