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Good read about how bad this might get.

As oil continues to surge into the Gulf of Mexico from the site of the Deepwater Horizon rig accident, experts warn that the Gulf's powerful Loop Current could whip millions of gallons of oil around Florida's peninsula and north to East Coast beaches.

If oil is swept up into the Loop Current—which moves at about 3.3 to 6.5 feet (1 to 2 meters) a second—"there's essentially no way to stop it," said Tony Sturges, professor emeritus in oceanography at Florida State University.
"Once [oil] gets into the loop current, you can bet the farm it will go around to the south" of the Florida Peninsula and into the Gulf Stream, which hugs Florida's eastern coast, he added.
"If you're at the top of a hotel in Miami Beach, you can see the Gulf Stream," Sturges said, and that means oil may easily wash ashore on the state's famous beaches.
In fact, oil in the Gulf Stream could affect coastal ecosystems along the eastern seaboard at least as far north as Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, said Mitchell Roffer of Roffer's Ocean Fishing Forecasting Service in West Melbourne, Florida

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...rrent-florida/