<div>The 2010 hurricane season is under way, with the National Hurricane Center predicting an above average intensity hurricane season for the Atlantic basin, including the US Gulf, ( <a href="http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010/20100527_hurricaneoutlook.html">http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010/20100527_hurricaneoutlook.html</a> ), though a below normal season for the Eastern Pacific ( <a href="http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/Epac_hurr/Epac_hurricane.html">http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/Epac_hurr/Epac_hurricane.html</a> ). However, the Eastern Pacific this season has already experienced a powerful and deadly tropical storm, Agatha:</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/05/29/tropical-storm-agatha-season-forms-eastern-pacific-headed-guatemala/">http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/05/29/tropical-storm-agatha-season-forms-eastern-pacific-headed-guatemala/</a></div>
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<h2 class="entry-title" id="article-title">Tropical Storm Agatha's Torrential Rains Unleash Floods, Slides in Central America</h2></div>
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<div>The impact of storms this hurricane season in the US Gulf on the oil geyser and mitigation efforts is of course a matter of great concern. The National Hurricane Center offers this document at the website below regarding the influence of storms on the oil geyser releases and impacts on ecosystems. Some impacts might help mitigate the damage from the massive oil releases, other impacts not, such as storm surge pushing oil deeper into critical ecosystems on the shore. It goes without saying, that a storm will disrupt work on clean up or blocking the spread of oil or attempts at the oil well geyser site to stop or slow the oil releases into the ocean:</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pdf/hurricanes_oil_factsheet.pdf">http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pdf/hurricanes_oil_factsheet.pdf</a></div>
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<div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</div>
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