Possible Tropical Depression

[DUCKGOGETTER]

Been raining here in lake charles

[Finfeatherfur]

At the end of the day, it boils down to common sense. There is only so many helicopters/boats that can get people in back to shore in a safe manner. Some chopper companies fly when others won't, and some boat companies will not go out if it gets above a certain sea height, when others will. Thus, it takes a lot of communication from the operators, vessle/chopper companies, and the weather geeks. At the same time, their is a million other things that determne if a platform flows or not when evacuated. Sometimes the platform is manned and can flow with no one there with SCADA controls. Sometimes it is a small unmanned platform that always has flow on SCADA, but has to be shut in because the pipeline company shuts down their pipeline so there is no where for the product to flow.

Usually, if it is a named storm, the non-essential people get shut down just as a precaution. I have been out there when it was a storm that caught us before we couldn't get off the rig. I have also been out there in a wintertime storm where the wind blew 40-50 knots for 2 days and they never even thought about bringing us in, because it was not "tropical" in nature. Rough as he!!, but they didn't see it as a threat. Had guys getting thrown out of bunks on a jack-up it was so bad, but to everyone else -it was just a "front".

[Montauk17]

Don't need no mo rain at my house! Grass is super long and too wet to cut!!! Need to send some of this rain to north la. Our deer lease is dry dry

[Garfish]

Originally Posted by Montauk17

Don't need no mo rain at my house! Grass is super long and too wet to cut!!! Need to send some of this rain to north la. Our deer lease is dry dry

Or a little further west!!! We need it badly!!!

[jchief]

Originally Posted by speck-chaser

Yeah, but tv 10 says we are still in a drought!!

Yes, we are. While we are getting plenty of rain now, we are still way behind. It is affecting the underground water tables. It will take alot to get us out of the drought.

They update the drought numbers on Thursday and I expect we will go down a notch from extreme to whatever is next.

[speck-chaser]

Originally Posted by jchief

Yes, we are. While we are getting plenty of rain now, we are still way behind. It is affecting the underground water tables. It will take alot to get us out of the drought.

They update the drought numbers on Thursday and I expect we will go down a notch from extreme to whatever is next.

Explain dat to my grass!!!

[speck-chaser]

some things you just cant ever catch up on.

[Montauk17]

Well Jody your predictions were right about going into a wet pattern. Need a lil break to get the grass cut!

[RonnieF]

Originally Posted by Dink

BRyan, this thing popped up over night. If it got bad through the day, how fast can they get the gulf evacuated??

Do they shut down the pumping or leave a small crew? Always wondered how it works

They may leave a skeleton crew to continue producing until the last minute. Then they can round them up on the last flight. If the oil pipeline or gas pipeline co. shut their valves, then it's useless to leave the skeleton crew. If the platform has a diesel generator, put that one online to keep the freezers and refridgerators working.
The liability is high for these old platforms. My old platform toppled over in Rita. Waves also moved a skid with two 60" X 15' vertical scrubbers with 8" piping about 8" and this was around 70' above the water.

[Dink]

70!!!!????? Wow!! Goes to show ya. Don't mess with mother nature!! Especially when she's pissed

["W"]

None of our piplines are shuting down or even worried at this point
Shell
Exxon
Bonita
Williams

[Frank Buck]

I guess it takes a special breed of folks for that...I would feel like a trapped rat....getting thrown onto the floor out of a bunk while sleeping!!!....And you can do nothing about it....You just have to stay there until a chopper or a boat comes and gets your hind end....WOW!....

[Lake Chuck Duck]

They are flyin the plane to the storm now. Should be a named storm soon.

["W"]

Should name it Dink...

[Cutty713]

Originally Posted by "W"

Should name it Dink...

:*****:

["W"]

Can read it now

Hurricane Dink ripped into lower Texas coast flipping all the Mexican fish boats causing a chum slick across 60 sq miles....this has now become a dead zone

[RonnieF]

Originally Posted by "W"

None of our piplines are shuting down or even worried at this point
Shell
Exxon
Bonita
Williams

Are you still in the shallow water Pelto area?

["W"]

Originally Posted by RonnieF

Are you still in the shallow water Pelto area?

Yep

[fishinpox]

Originally Posted by "W"

Can read it now

Hurricane Dink ripped into lower Texas coast flipping all the Mexican fish boats causing a chum slick across 60 sq miles....this has now become a dead zone

Hurricane DINK swept thru the gulf cutting through Mexican fishing boats like a steel leader leaving a gulp like chum slick worst than the deepwater horizon slick - marine biologist yakem stated

["W"]

I wonder now that Yak em still thinks everything is dead???? And he now is employed by that devil black substance