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As Alex Gains Strength, Gale Force Winds May Hit The BP Clean Up

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Tropical storm Alex may become a hurricane in the next 24 to 48 hours. Its most likely path is to hit land near the Texas-Mexico border. Alex  may send gale force winds and waves at least ten foot high to the site where BP is attempting to cap the Deepwater Horizon rig leak.

The storm may be strong enough to force ships near the spot of the leak to move away, which could add a week or more to the time by which the worst oil spill in US history can be fully capped, if indeed that is possible. “Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, who is overseeing the leak response, says officials have plans to evacuate ships from the area in case of a serious storm”, according to the Voice of America.The bigger problem with the storm is that it may drive some of the oil spill inland along the Louisiana coast. Those working to contain the spill have labored to keep the slick off shore. Nothing can stop crude driven by 10 foot waves. High seas could drive some oil several hundred yards inland.

BP may be able to cap the oil leak, but there is enough crude on the surface of the Gulf that the weather is the biggest challenge facing the clean-up.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

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A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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