Louisiana Orders Emergency Opening of White Shrimp Season

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Originally Posted by FF_T_Warren

I'd like to know how they misjudged the leak by 168,000 gallons a day. I mean for the past few days we've been told 42,000gallons/day then today they tell us it's bigger than they thought 210,000gallons/day. Now thats an awful big screw up. did they know all along it was that much?

Can you look at something bubbling up from under the water and tell exactly or even anywhere in the neighborhood of how much is coming up to the surface? It's called an estimate for that very reason, they're estimating how much it is. There's no way of really telling how much is coming up from the bottom.