On the Cross Island Parkway in Queens and the Belt Parkway near Kennedy Airport, drivers splashed through lakelike puddles and bumped through blowout-inducing potholes they could not see.
Preparations continued on Sunday on a plan to pump heavy drilling mud into the well through the blowout preventer, the safety device at the wellhead that failed during the accident.
Those efforts were largely unsuccessful, however, which is why the focus is now on the top-kill method of pumping heavy mud through the blowout preventer into the well.
If the oil finds its own path to the surface after getting out in this manner, it would not be containable in the same way as it is when it flows through the blowout protector.So, as in submarine films, all eyes are on the pressure gauge, all ears on the sonar.
This game was an instant classic — a relief for fans who sat through the blowouts that turned the New Year's Six line-up into a dud.
"The first thing [the mud] probably wants to do is go with the flow," says Bommer, which is out through the malfunctioning blowout preventer and a short length of kinked riser pipe.
The Americans started to pull away in the second half, then turned a somewhat close game (relatively) into another blowout midway through the third.
In a blowout midway through the fourth quarter, he was still grabbing rebounds, taking up space and taking the occasional charge.
On the night of April 20, minutes after an enormous blowout ripped through the Deepwater Horizon, the rig's desperate crew pinned all hope on this last line of defense.
They will get plenty of rest after flattening the Lakers, who staggered through back-to-back blowout losses at home without three regular starters in their first opening-round exit since 2007.
