A GLIMMER OF HOPE OR A SHOT IN THE DARK?

They make it sound so simple. Pray that this works. Somehow we've gone from damned near hopeless to not a big deal in less than twelve hours. Why do I find this so hard to believe?

"BP reported some glimmers of progress on Monday in its efforts to stem oil leaks from an undersea well off the Louisiana coast that have created what President Obama called a “potentially unprecedented environmental disaster.”

Bill Salvin, a company spokesman, said that crews had finished building a containment dome, a 4-story, 70-ton structure that the company plans to lower into place over one of the three leaks to catch the escaping oil and allow it to be pumped to the surface. The other two domes would be completed on Tuesday, Mr. Salvin said, and crews hoped to install all three domes by the weekend.

“That will essentially eliminate most of the issues you have with oil in the water,” he said."
New York Times